Image: UGA Theatre will hold auditions for Spring Semester productions via online video submission. The online audition form can be found here: https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9M3niL2YFw31tOu The form will be available until 11:59PM November 10th 2021. You will provide the link to your video audition within the form. Callbacks will be in-person in the Fine Arts Building at the corner of Lumpkin and Baldwin St. on November 16, 17, 18. Video submissions should include an introduction (say your name and introduce your pieces), perform 2 contrasting monologues (no more than three minutes for both). Your video should be created in front of a neutral background in a quiet room. If you have questions about the auditions or the shows you may email to Kristin Kundert kkundert@uga.edu or Tina Hantula hantula@uga.edu using your UGA-affiliated email address. Rehearsals in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies are typically on weekday evenings 7PM-11PM and one weekend day (6 hours allowed). Rehearsals for EAT THE RUNT will likely start with a meeting on or near December 5, 2021 and then continue beginning January 10th, 2022. Kristin Kundert directing. Performance dates are February 17-February 27, 2022 in the Cellar Theatre. Rehearsals for GEM OF THE OCEAN will begin in January or February. Guest Artist Chuma Gault directing. Performance dates April 14-April 24, 2022 in the Fine Arts Theatre. About the Productions: EAT THE RUNT is a sharp satire on workplace politics, harassment and social/cultural norms. The play is different night to night as the ensemble of actors change roles for the evening, creating a completely different performance event from the same script. Playwright Avery Crozier creates a script that explores issues of race, age, power and gender using a series of conversations in job interviews at an urban museum. Actors cast in this piece, by virtue of the challenge each evening, will be playing more than one part. GEM OF THE OCEAN is the first of ten plays by August Wilson that have come to be known as the Decalogue. These plays are Wilson’s keen depictions of the negro, Black, Afro and African American experience in each decade of the 20th Century. Gem of the Ocean takes place in 1904 in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the black enclave of the city, in the home of Aunt Esther, a 285 year old woman who is the community’s spiritual healer and washer of souls. A lost and scared young man named Citizen comes to her in the middle of the night desperate to cleanse a dark deed from his soul and he finds love and purpose in return. Actors may also represent and function as chorus, citizens, dancers, elements of the earth, masks, and ritual spirits.
