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Auditions: December 8 & 9Iowa City Public Library
Performance Dates: March 6, 7, 8, & 9
The James Theater
Join us for auditions for The Penelopiad, directed by Rachel Korach Howell. Auditions slots will be available on December 8 from 2-5 and December 9 from 6-9.
Auditions will be at the Iowa City Public Library. Groups will be called for one hour blocks. Please select all time slots for which you are available on Sunday, December 8th and Monday, December 9th. Audition times will be emailed by December 7th by 6 PM.
Actors should sign up for an audition slot by December 6th.
Audition Sign Up:
https://forms.gle/K1zcfiChDvyd4W5QA
Actors do not need to prepare anything for auditions. A copy of the script is available for perusal at the Iowa City Public Library.
Regular rehearsals will begin in early January.
Cast:
PENELOPE
12 MAIDS - All Maids will play an additional 1 to 5 roles
*The PENELOPIAD may include intimate contact and/or portrayal of sexual assault between different gender types or similar gender types*
Synopsis:
Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story, inexplicably hangs Penelope's twelve maids. Now, Penelope and her chorus of wronged maids tell their side of the story in a new stage version by Margaret Atwood, adapted from her own wry, witty and wise novel
About the Show:
Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel by the same name, The Penelopiad is a poetic, feminist re-imagining of Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. The play is beautifully rendered in both prose and verse in contemporary language, and is brimming with powerful symbolism that will leave audiences shaken.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Iowa City Public Library, 123 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA 52240-1803, United States,Iowa City, Iowa
