TDM Spring Production Auditions: The Danube

TDM’s Spring Production is The Danube
Written by María Irene Fornés
Directed by Morgan Green

A love story set against the backdrop of war, perhaps nuclear holocaust. Paul, an American, meets Eve in Budapest. They fall in love and marry. As they work to overcome their communication difficulties through foreign language instruction tapes, they gradually grow ill from the pollution as their world begins to fall apart.

Learn more about Morgan Green here: https://www.morganclairegreen.com/

AUDITIONS

Sunday, December 9, 4-8pm
Monday, December 10, 10am-12pm
Auditions take place in Farkas Hall Studio 303.

CALLBACKS

Monday, December 10, 2-4pm
Callbacks take place on the Farkas Hall Stage

Rehearsals start March 25, 2019. Performances run May 2-5, 2019.

TO AUDITION FOR THE DANUBE:

Please email Dana Knox at danaknox@fas.harvard.edu with two “one-hour” availability slots (first choice and second choice) on December 9 and/or 10. You will be assigned a 10 minute slot within those hours and receive audition materials. Walk up auditions will be accommodated as the schedule allows.

Students are encouraged to sign up in advance. Students will be asked to perform their choice of either a prepared monologue or reading audition sides provided. Those who sign up early will be provided the audition sides, the script, and a working rehearsal calendar by December 3.

TO JOIN THE DESIGN/TECH TEAM:

Please email Dana Knox at danaknox@fas.harvard.edu with your desired field(s). This is an opportunity to work with professional guest artists in Scenery, Costumes, Lights, Sound, Dramaturgy, and Stage Management. Students considering design apprenticeships will be sent copy of the script for review when they contact Dana with their area or areas of interest.

For more information about receiving course credit, please email Dana Knox at danaknox@fas.harvard.edu.
More information: tdm.fas.harvard.edu

ABOUT MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS

Maria Irene Fornés, (born May 14, 1930, Havana, Cuba—died October 30, 2018, New York, NY) is a Cuban-born American dramatist. Her family moved t o the United States in 1945, and she became a painter before beginning to write plays in the early 1960s. She wrote more than 40 stage works and directed her own works as well as classic drama. Her innovative dramas made her one of the most successful and frequently produced of Off-Broadway playwrights. Fornés’s numerous awards include nine Obies, and in 1972 she received a Guggenheim fellowship. She has received eight Obie awards — in such categories as distinguished playwriting and direction and best new play — for PROMENADE (1965), THE SUCCESSFUL LIFE OF 3, FEFU AND HER FRIENDS, THE DANUBE (1982), MUD, SARITA (1984), THE CONDUCT OF LIFE, and ABINGDON SQUARE (1987).

ABOUT MORGAN GREEN

Morgan Green is a theater director and co-founder of New Saloon (newsaloon.org), a Brooklyn-based experimental theater company.

She is happy to be splitting her time between working in New York and the Bay Area where she is from. She directs new plays, musicals, dance, deconstructed classics, and short fims.In 2016, Morgan received the Award for Outstanding Director from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for her work on New Saloon’s MINOR CHARACTER: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time. She has held residencies at Mabou Mines, Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and New Georges. Her work has been seen at The Public Theater, The Bushwick Starr, Ars Nova, The Invisible Dog, The New Ohio, Marin Theatre Company, Z Space, and more. Morgan is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.