Auditions for Brian Friel’s
Translations
Directed by Shaun
McCracken
When: Monday, August 26 at 7pm
Where: Shafer 201
Prepare: Your best monologue
(1 minute max. May be comedic or dramatic. Dialect work is encouraged but not required.)
Roles available:
Manus—late
20’s/early 30’s, the lame son of a schoolmaster in a Gaeltecht community in
Donegal (M)
Sarah—17/20, a
poor girl from the community with a terrible speech defect. She speaks in grunts (if at all) and
communicates largely with gesture. (F)
Jimmy Jack Cassie
(The Infant Prodigy)—60/65, fluent in Latin and Greek. Never bathes.
Attends the school each night for company. (M)
Maire—20/22,
strong-minded and strong-bodied (F)
Doalty—20/22,
open-minded and open-hearted, generous, and slightly thick (M)
Bridget—18/20,
plump, fresh, country girl, cunning, but in a harmless way, always ready to
laugh (F)
Hugh—60/65,
Manus’ father, a large man with residual dignity (M)
Owen—23/24,
Hugh’s other son/Manus’ brother, a city man with an easy, charming manner (M)
Captain Lancey—30/40,
British, precise and orderly. Good with
deeds, not words. (M)
Lieutenant Yolland—23/24,
British. Has a shy and awkward manner—a
soldier by accident. (M)
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