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BLT TEEN SHOW: OPEN TO AGES 13-19AUDITION DATES: June 3 at 12:00 pm; June 4 and 5 at 6:00 pm (you only need to attend one audition unless asked to return by the director).
AUDITION LOCATION: Biloxi Little Theatre
PRODUCTION DATES: July 13-15 at 7:30pm; July 16 at 2:00pm
DIRECTOR: Melissa Hall-Reinike
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS: Auditions will consist of readings from the script and some interpretive movement direction.
THE SHOW: I Am Frankenstein unearths two creatures who were tortured and abandoned by their makers: Victor’s famous monster, and the teenage writer Mary Shelley herself. A highly theatrical retelling of Shelley's classic, the play adds two principal characters: a haunting chorus known as The Blackbirds, and the troubled Mary Shelley, the story’s creative force. Victor, a promising student obsessed with alchemy, reanimates human life in the basement laboratory of a vacationing professor, only to abandon his creature and allow it to slowly exact revenge...
ROLES TO BE FILLED
NOTE: We will be taking a very creative view of casting, an impressionistic view, and will be open to changes in configuration.
THE CREATURE: Male, powerfully built. Strong enough to carry the actor playing Victor. Emotionally raw and underdeveloped, highly intelligent, with a super-natural gift for imitation and language acquisition. The “man in storm” in the first scene is played by the same actor.
VICTOR: Student of alchemy, chemistry. A young man in a hurry, willing to break rules to achieve greatness.
ELIZABETH: Victor’s cousin, raised as his sister within the same household. Kind and loving, discerning and moral.
MARY/MOTHER: She is Mary Godwin and the eventual Mary Shelley, author of the novel Frankenstein. She is an empath who is dark-natured, deeply affected by her mother’s death and eager to prove her greatness as a writer and exorcize her own demons in the process. (essentially 2 roles)
HENRY: Best friend of Victor, admirer of Elizabeth. Noble, conscientious, good-natured and funny.
BLACKBIRDS (Chorus): (predominantly feminine presence) any age, chorus of 3-9 actors/dancers/movers/vocalists. Six is perhaps the perfect number.
WALTON: Either, 35. English sea explorer in the arctic. Admires Victor’s adventurousness and desires fame and fortune.
PROF. KREMPE: Either, 40, French chemistry professor. Eccentric, acerbic, judgmental, intellectually superior, witty.
BYRON: the writer Lord Byron. Egotistical, confident genius who is something of a misogynist, and an antagonist to Mary.
FATHER: Victor’s father and Elizabeth’s adoptive father.
PERCY: the writer Percy Shelley. In a relationship with Mary, though he is married to another woman. A weak defender of his lover, and a man who takes a back seat to Byron.
LUCIA: Female, Corsican maid. Nurturing earth mother. Could also be member of the Blackbirds but should not be doubled with Mary.
SAILOR 1: British, any age.
SAILOR 2: British, any age
**We are also looking for crew members to join us. If you are ages 13-19 and are interested in set painting, set construction, back-stage management, costuming, or technical elements like light, sound, and effect, please reach out to us at: [email protected]
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Biloxi Little Theatre, 220 Lee St,Biloxi,MS,United States