Audition for Eurydice

Thank you for your interest in auditioning for a GREAT show! If you’ve auditioned for us before, welcome back! If this is your first time auditioning at GREAT, we’re thrilled to have you! We are in our 27th season and are excited to add new people, new talent, and new voices to our company as well as welcome returning volunteers to our stages! Whether you’re a seasoned performer or you’ve never been on stage before, we encourage you to audition!

BE PART OF THE STORY 

Eurydice offers a poetic and visually stunning take on the classic myth, told from Eurydice’s perspective. This dreamlike play blends lyrical language, movement, and inventive storytelling to explore love, loss, and memory. With rich character work and a uniquely theatrical world, it’s a great opportunity for actors drawn to imaginative and emotional storytelling.

KEY DATES

Information Session: Monday, Feb. 10 at 7pm via Zoom. SIGN UP HERE

Auditions:
Located at our GREAT Downtown Studio –919 W St. Germain St., St. Cloud
Saturday, February 15th (10am-3pm) and Wednesday, February 19th (6pm-9pm)

Callbacks: Saturday, February 22nd (10am-3pm)

Cast Meeting: Wednesday, March 12th (6pm – 9pm)

Rehearsals: Every Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday (6-9pm) and some Saturdays (10am-3pm) starting on March 17th. Please note that not everyone is called for every rehearsal.

Tech/Dress Rehearsals: May 5th-8th (5-10pm)

Performances: 

• Friday, May 9th from 6:00p-10:00p (7:30p Performance)
• Saturday, May 10th from 12:30p-4:30p (Hold) (2:00p Performance)
• Saturday, May 10th from 6:00p-10:00p (7:30p Performance)
• Thursday, May 15th from 6:00p-10:00p (7:30p Performance)
• Friday, May 16th from 6:00p-10:00p (7:30p ASL Performance)
• Saturday, May 17th from 6:00p-10:00p (7:30p Performance)
• Sunday, May 18th from 12:30p-4:30p (2:00p Performance)

WHAT TO PREPARE

Monologues/Sides:  

• All actors: please prepare a 1-1.5 minute contemporary monologue (written in the past fifty years). Online collegiate libraries, published monologue collections, New Play Exchange and more are strong places to start when searching for material.

Music:

• Actors auditioning for Orpheus should prepare a 12-bar ballad cutting of their choice to sing a capella.

Movement:

• Please come prepared in clothes you feel comfortable moving in.

Special Skills (Tap/Tumbling/Dialects/etc):

• Actors auditioning for Orpheus: please list musical background.
• Actors auditioning for Orpheus, Eurydice, and Stones: please list movement/dance background

Character List & Descriptions:

Eurydice – A young woman. In love with Orpheus. Mourning her father. Bookish, with a mind full of interesting notions.

Orpheus – A young man. In love with Eurydice. A singer and composer who is serious about his art.

Her Father – A patient and loving father. Dead, living in the land of the dead. A good teacher.

A Nasty Interesting Man/Lord of Underworld – The Nasty and Interesting Man is conniving and smooth. The Lord of the Underworld is an ornery, childish babyman who loves having power.

Stone Chorus – a group of vapid, human-adjacent dolls. Comical at parts. Unfeeling overall.
Note about Stone Chorus/Understudy: Some of the Stones will be double-cast as Stone/Understudy. This means actors will perform as a Stone in some shows in addition to covering one of the principal roles (Eurydice, Orpheus, Father, Lord of the Underworld). This is an excellent opportunity for a performer interested in developing their acting and movement skills. Rehearsal time in Understudy Role and Performance time as a Stone are guaranteed.

A Note On Theatrical Intimacy:
Theatrical intimacy is any action on stage where the given circumstances of the scene or the overall production calls for touch, both physical and imaginative, or moments between actors of simulated sexuality or sexual violence.
GREAT has been learning from Intimacy Directors & Coordinators (IDC) to improve processes and incorporate safer practices for theatrical intimacy in our rehearsals.
All scenes with intimacy follow a specific set of staging and rehearsal protocols rooted in consent and safety for the actors.

PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Jessica Chipman
Costume Designer: Dana Svensson
Lighting & Scenic Designer: Jeff Brown
Sound Designer: Steven Sanders
Props Manager: Bonnie Bologna