Audition Info for Actors

Charity Readers Theatre

Presents

John Steinbeck’s

Grapes of Wrath

(Show information for patrons at the end of this message.)

AUDITION DATE: Saturday, September 9, 2016 at 10 am.

REHEARSAL PROCESS: Beijing Playhouse’s main stage shows take three months to rehearse and perform. Charity Readers Theatre rehearses for only one week. And at the end of that week, we do one performance only. It’s a show in a week. While the commitment is much less, one week as opposed to three months, that will be one extremely intense week. Actors who are cast will live and breathe this show for that week.

LOCATION: Charity Readers Theatre’s auditions and rehearsals for Grapes of Wrath are at the Dongsi Theatre rehearsal studio, a two minute walk from the Dongsi subway station. The one performance is at ISB in Shunyi.

PRE AUDITION DRAMA WORKSHOPS: Before the September 9 auditions, there are three drama club workshops that will provide you with more information about Charity Readers Theatre, Beijing Playhouse Drama Club and Grapes of Wrath. If you are auditioning, attending these drama club workshops would be helpful, but not required.

Tuesday, August 1— Grapes of Wrath Script Reading

Tuesday, August 15—How To Audition

Tuesday, September 5—Projecting on Stage

Even if you’re not auditioning, you are welcome to join us for the drama workshops. Drama club workshops, 6:30 pm social, 7:30 pm workshop begins, take place at Caravan near Jianguomen subway station. Email artsforagoodcause@charityreaderstheatre.org for drama workshop info.

CONTACT: For audition form and more audition information, email artsforagoodcause@charityreaderstheatre.org.

John Steinbeck’s

Grapes of Wrath

SHOW: John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel, prominently sited when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, is perhaps the most American of American Classics.

impoverished family is driven from their farm by drought and economic hardship. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, they are forced to travel west, through the Dust Bowl, to the—hopefully—promised land of California. Along with thousands of other homeless, they seek jobs, dignity and a future.

PERFORMANCE DATE: One performance only: Saturday, September 16, 2017 at 7:30 pm.

LOCATION: International School of Beijing, Shunyi.

TICKETS: 80 RMB. Email the box office at artsforagoodcause@charityreaderstheatre.org.

CHARITY READERS THEATRE: 100% of all ticket sales are donated to charity. The beneficiary of this performance of Grapes of Wrath is Social Work Development Center.

Charity Readers Theatre, presented by Beijing Playhouse Drama Club, is all about acting, acting, acting. There are almost no costumes, no props, no sets, no lighting design, no sound design, no subtitles. It’s all acting. And as it is readers theatre, actors will carry scripts to refer to. Charity Readers Theatre is an artistic process where actors rehearse for only one week. And at the end of that week, we do one performance only. It’s a show in a week.

AGES: All Charity Readers Theatre shows are designed for families. This show is appropriate for ages 14 and up.