THEY DON’T PAY, WE WON’T PAY by Dario Fo

Directed by Joe Martin

MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2016 6-8 PM and 8-10 PM

Please register for one of the time slot online and be ready to read from the script!

The scheduled run, March 2016, Wednesdays – Sundays

First Preview: Tuesday March 1, 2016

Thereafter, Wednesdays-Sundays to Sat., March 1-March 27, 2016

Rehearsal Schedule: Planned to start first readings January 5, 2016

Actors are not called to all rehearsals, and sometimes only for a portion of rehearsal until the runs and tech.

Sat/Sundays: Generally 1pm-6 pm No evenings until tech week February 21-February 28, 2016

Weekdays: 6:30pm – 10:30 pm will takes place on Monday – Thursday generally, unless otherwise notified

(After the first two weeks of source work—reading, workshops, and ensemble work, this will be only 3 weekday nights)

The Play:

One of the great European comedies of the 20^th Century, which caused Nobel Prizing winning playwright Dario Fo to be brought to trial for incitement in this play about women a mass movement of shoplifting from food stores, due to price hikes, throughout a city.  The result is a peculiar number of pregnant-looking women in coats being pursued by the authorities everywhere. It is both physical comedy and a comedy of wit, sometimes in the “boulevard” style.  Fo has roots in Commedia dell’Arte, and the influence shows in this modern farce.

The characters:

ANTONIA is a middle-aged (40s-50s) working class woman who knows how to live dangerously in a crisis—but prone to disastrous mistakes of judgment.  She acts like she wants her husband’s approval in all she does – just enough to keep him fooled.

MARGHARITA is a working class woman in her mid-20s to mid-30s (give or take) who often follows her friend Antonia’s lead; who both enjoys mischief, but is quickly frightened in a corner.

GIOVANNI (age 40 – 55 for actors), Antonia’s husband, works in a factory.  He is angry about the outsourcing of jobs by companies overseas, and unemployment at home.  He is a moralist insofar as he supports law and order.  He thinks himself shrewd – but is easily duped.

LUIGI (late 20s to late 30s) is Marghareta’s husband, also a worker, discontent with deteriorating working conditions and prices. Quite frantic when he is told his wife is “pregnant” but just slow enough – or male enough – to believe it.

POLICE SERGEANT, UNDERTAKER, GRANDFATHER, THE STATE TROOPER: all played by the same actor.  (20s to  50s) All these characters “look mysteriously” alike.)

WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR and STAGE MANAGER – Interested, please send your resume at ambassadortheater@aticc.org

PAID!

WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT THE CASTING CALL!

CHEERS,

Team of the Ambassador Theater

They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! : Shows: March 1 – March 26, 2016;

Previews: March 1, 2, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Call at 6:30 PM;

Opening March 3, 2016  at 8:00 PM, Call at 6:30 PM;

Shows: Wed-Sat at 8:00 PM Call at 6:30 pm;

Matinees: Sundays at 2:00 PM, Call at 12:30 PM;

At Flashpoint, 916 G Street, NW, Washington DC 20016

Please e-mail your resume at ambassadortheater@aticc.org

This is a paid position

We are also looking for friendly ushers to assist our patrons at each show!

If you are friendly and like to see the show, please e-mail us at ambassadortheater@aticc.org and state which days you are available!  You get additional free ticket to each show!

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Team of the Ambassador Theater

Ambassador Theater is looking for Assistant Director and Stage Manager  for the upcoming production of They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay by Dario Fo

Produced by Hanna Bondarewska

Directed by Joe Martin

In Partnership with the Embassy of Italy and Italian Cultural Institute

Casting Call December 14, 2015 6-10 PM at FLASHPOINT, 916 G Street, NW, Washington DC

The first rehearsals are starting January 5, 2016.

The scheduled run, March 2016, Wednesdays – Sundays

Previews: Tuesday March 1, 2, 2016

Opening Thursday, March 3, 2016

Thereafter, Wednesdays-Sundays to Sat., March 1-March 27, 2016

Rehearsal Schedule: Planned to start January 5, 2016

Actors are not called to all rehearsals, and sometimes only for a portion of rehearsal until the runs and tech.

Sat/Sundays: Generally 1pm-6 pm No evenings until tech week February 21-February 28, 2016

Weekdays: 6:30pm – 10:30 pm will takes place on Monday – Thursday generally, unless otherwise notified

(After the first two weeks of source work—reading, workshops, and ensemble work, this will be only 3 weekday nights)

Interested, please e-mail your resume at at ambassadortheater@aticc.org

These are paid positions

Looking forward to working with you!

Cheers,

Team of the Ambassador Theater

Type: Theatre
Pay: Paid
Union: Non-Union

Audition/Casting Date(s): Thursday, July 16
Start/End Time: 2:00 PM – 6:45 PM
Location: Ambassador Theater at FLASHPOINT, 916 G Street NW, Washington DC 20001

Please e-mail your photo/resume at ambassadortheater@aticc.org
PLEASE REGISTER ONLINE through Eventbrite

Breakdown/Description:
Ambassador Theater is holding a casting call for We Won’t Pay Won’t Pay by Dario Fo. The play will be produced at the FLASHPOINT, Mead Theatre Lab, 916 G Street, NW, Washington DC.

The production will be directed by Joe Banno, a Helen Hayes Award-winning director and former artistic director of Source Theatre Company, who has staged productions at Folger Theatre, Theatre J, American Century Theatre, Wolf Trap Opera, and dozens of other companies in the DC-area and around the country.

Won’t Pay Won’t Pay: Performances: Oct. 22 – Nov. 15, 2015
ROLES  – Antonia ( Wife of Giovanni, an attractive, mid-age woman), Giovanni (Husband of Antonia), Margherita (friend of Antonia), Luigi (husband of Margherita), State Trooper (Older Man)

About: …the comedy of hunger…

...The characters are hungry for dignity, justice and love…

A comedy/farce in two acts in which the characters… are driven by their collective hungers to break free from the constraints in which their poverty has confined them…

Author: Dario Fo

“who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden” Nobelprize.org

An Italian avant-garde playwright, manager-director, and actor-mime, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. A theatrical caricaturist with a flair for social agitation, he often faced government censure.

Dario Fo wrote over 70 plays, coauthoring some of them with Rame. Among his most popular plays are Morte accidentale di un anarchico (1974; Accidental Death of an Anarchist) and Non si paga, non si paga! (1974; We Can’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!). As a performer, Fo is best known for his solo tour de force Mistero Buffo (1973; “Comic Mystery”), based on medieval mystery plays but so topical that the shows changed with each audience.

FOR YOUR AUDITIONS:
Bring your photo/resume and be ready to read from the script ! You may also present a monologue.

Audition Address:

FLASHPOINT, Mead Theatre Lab

916 G Street NW

Washington DC 20001

Contact Information:
ambassadortheater@aticc.org

Audition/Casting Date(s): Saturday, January 31, 25
Start/End Time: 3:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Ambassador Theater at

CALLBACKS on SUNDAY –time will be Announced!

Building XX

814 20th Street NW, Washington DC 20052

the second floor in room 202.

Please e-mail your photo/resume at ambassadortheater@aticc.org
PLEASE REGISTER ONLINE through Eventbrite

Breakdown/Description:
Ambassador Theater is holding a casting call for The Trap by Tadeusz Rozewicz. The play will be produced at the Building XX of the George Washington University;

The Trap: Performances: May 28 – June 21, 2015 with the possibility of 2 weeks extension
ROLES  – Franz ( A Man, dark hair thin, reminding Kafka) Animula (a small girl or a boy or a young actor), Josie ( about 30 years old woman), Mother (Middle age woman), Father (Older Man, father of Franz), Ottla (Sister of Franz), Valli, (A young woman), Felice (An attractive woman), Grete, Zenek, Vic, Salesman, Waitress, Max, Cobbler, Barber, Executioners, Gentleman

About: …Anxities and nightmares of Franz Kafka…

Tadeusz Rózewicz was born in Radomsko, Poland on October 9, 1921. During World War II, he was a soldier in the Home Army, the underground resistance movement in occupied Poland. For two years, he fought in a guerrilla unit and wrote his first poems. After studying the history of art at university in Krakow, he began to publish both poetry and plays. His first volumes of poetry were Anxiety (1947) and The Red Glove (1948). After 1956, he primarily wrote plays including The Card Index, The Witnesses or Our Little Stabilization, and The Old Woman Broods. In 1999, he published a collection of poems, family documents, photos and essays entitled Mother Departs, which won the Nike prize, the most eminent Polish literary award. He died on April 24, 2014 at the age of 92.

Tadeusz Różewicz is widely considered one of Poland’s most important and influential writers. His works tend to focus on universal themes, but speak particularly to the generation of Polish adults whose memories of youth, like his own, are filled with the horrifying experiences of World War II. Różewicz often scorns the conventional techniques and philosophies of literature and frequently questions the validity of poetry itself. Różewicz explored the life of one of his literary heroes, Franz Kafka, in the loosely biographical play The Trap (1982). The play also depicts the demise of artistic creativity, played out against visions of the impending ‘‘final solution’’—Hitler’s largely executed plan for the systematic murder of all Jews in Europe.

FOR YOUR AUDITIONS:
Bring your photo/resume and be ready to read from the script ! You may also present a monologue.

Audition Address:

Building XX

814 20th Street NW, the second floor in room 202.

Washington DC 20052

Contact Information:
ambassadortheater@aticc.org

Are you ready to move, perform in beautiful masks, entertain and have fun? Ready for an intensive movement, acting in masks workshops in May and June?

Call us immediately at (703) 475-4036

We are casting young Female/Male actors, movement/flexibility is a plus, acting in masks ability – some funny scenes, excerpts from “Dyskolos” by Menander to be performed at a special event in Old Town Alexandria June 14th at 2 PM!
A wealthy young man falls in love at first sight with a beautiful, but poor farmer’s daughter. The only thing that stands in the way of their happiness is the woman’s violent, misanthropic father. This play will be performed in an updated mask style drawing upon such diverse influences as Ancient Greek, Commedie Francaise, and The Three Stooges. Experience with physical acting, masks, pantomime and classical text are all helpful skills.

If you like to have fun and have some experience, please contact Hanna at ambassadortheter@aticc.org to schedule your casting call!

ANTIWORDS at Flashpoint, September 19 – 22, 2013 (Shows Sept. 21 at 8 pm, Sept. 22 at 2 pm)

PROTEST at Flashpoint, Shows November 19 – December 15, 2013 (Thanksgiving week off)

DYSKOLOS , part of Special Celebration of the Greek Culture at the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Old Town, Alexandria VA January 18, 19, 2014.

AUSTRIAN PLAY TBA – February-March 2014 at FLASHPOINT

Anyone interested, please send your resume at ambassadortheater@aticc.org

ARE YOU IN DC THIS SUMMER AND WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH A UNIQUE THEATER COMPANY?

Ambassador Theater is looking for summer interns to run the front of house for their summer production, The Third Breast, next month. Ideal applicants are organized, joyful, theater-lovers and experienced in customer service. Must be willing to potentially be involved with/perform in the pre-show “rituals” (the play takes place in a commune) as orchestrated by our illustrious director,     Hanna Bondarewska.

***Must be available for a few hours on July 6-9 for dress rehearsals.

***The run is July 10-Aug 4 with performances at 8p Thurs- Sat and 2p on Sundays.

Interested individuals should contact our stage manager, Rachel Silvert (rachel.silvert@gmail.com), for more information.

Audition/Casting Date(s): Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Start/End Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Ambassador Theater at Durant Arts Center, Room #3/4 1605 Cameron St. – Alexandria, VA 22314 (Near King Street Metro)

Please e-mail your photo/resume at ambassadortheater@aticc.org
REGISTER ON LINE FOR YOUR AUDITION: EVENTBRITE, pick your time slot/ticket

Breakdown/Description:
Ambassador Theater is holding a casting call for three plays: The Third Breast by Ireneusz Iredynski, Protest by Vaclav Havel, and Dyskolos by Menander. The plays will be produced at Mead Theater Lab at Flashpoint and at the George Washington Masonic Memorial Theater;

The Third Breast: Performances: July 10 – August 4, 2013 Thursdays-Sundays at Mead Theater Lab at FLASPOINT
Ewa– a woman, leader, attractive
George– Good looking young male, (27-40s) singer and preferably guitar player
Thomas– An Older Man, late 30s-40s and up
The Third Breast is a classic example of one of Iredynski’s favorite scenarios in which human weaknesses, insecurities and obsessions paired up with power, lead to manipulation, cruelty and violence. The play invites us into a closed, almost cult like community of nature lovers, whose charismatic spiritual leader, Ewa, unexpectedly grows a third breast and unable to have it removed, becomes depressed and unsure of her future leadership ability. After failed suicide attempt she manipulates her closest allies, a commune founder Thomas and her new lover George, into killing two community members who know her secret and as such pose a threat to her leadership status. George gains Ewa’s total trust by playing a key role in the “accidental” killings, and as her favorite and only lover, begins to feel his growing power. What follows makes the plot even more unexpected and shocking…

Protest: October 2013
2 Male and 2 female actors: young and older
In Protest we meet a dissident on return home from prison, getting involved in a campaign to protest against the government by getting people to sign a petition calling for a change in the way things are done in his country. In our version, the two male characters will also have counter characters echoed in 2 females. One character is the protesting artist who suffered for his beliefs, the other a compromising
and compromised playwright. The play was written in the 1970′s by acclaimed human rights activist and the first president of the Czech Republic.

Dyskolos: December/January 2013/2014
We are casting young Female/Male actors, movement/flexibility is a plus, acting in masks ability
A wealthy young man falls in love at first sight with a beautiful, but poor farmer’s daughter. The only thing that stands in the way of their happiness is the woman’s violent, misanthropic father. This play will be performed in an updated mask style drawing upon such diverse influences as Ancient Greek, Commedie Francaise, and The Three Stooges. Experience with physical acting, masks, pantomime and classical text are all helpful skills.

FOR YOUR AUDITIONS:
Prepare one/two monologues: one dramatic, one comedic
Bring your photo/resume and be ready to move and read from the scripts !

Audition Address:
DURANT ARTS CENTER
1605 Cameron St. – Alexandria
Alexandria VA 22314

Contact Information:
Hanna Bondarewska
ambassadortheater@aticc.org

Auditions to be held January 31, 2012

4-10 p.m.

at Durant Center

1605 Cameron Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

please sign up for audition times online at http://hopatropa.eventbrite.com/

The show will be performed at the Memorial Theater

at the George Washington Masonic Temple

April 1, 2012.

Please prepare a comic monologue and 16 bars of a song.

Actors who will be called back will be asked to dance and improvise–callback date TBA.

Please be open to the idea of touring with the show!

The rehearsals are planned to start around February 15th

Please make sure to sign up for your time on eventbrite and bring your photoresume to audition.

For more information email: ambassadortheater@aticc.org