Teatro Paraguas announces auditions for Daphne’s Dive, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes Daphne's Dive is a cheap corner bar in North Philly where Daphne and her vibrant, eclectic regulars drink to art, politics, and life. As Daphne's adopted daughter, very different from her reserved and pragmatic mother, grows up, this unconventional family is forced to confront who's an insider, who's an outsider, and the challenge of opening your heart to strangers. AUDITIONS Friday, 1/5 6-8 pm Saturday, 1/6 4:30 -7:00pm CALLBACKS (invitation only) Sunday, 1/7 1-3pm Audition Location: Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie directed by Sheryl Bailey Rehearsal Dates February 22 - April 5, 2018 Production Dates April 6-22, 2018 Monologues welcome, but not required. Readings from script. Script available by request at <teatroparaguas@gmail.com> Daphne’s Dive Characters Daphne bar owner Latina Inez Daphne’s sister Latina Acosta Inez’s husband Latino Rey glass cutter and manual labor any ethnicity Jenn artist, performance artist, and merrymaker Asian-Americn Pablo painter Latino Ruby a young woman who is also, in some way, a child any ethnicity Setting Philadelphia 1994-2011 Roles Daphne: Female, 35-50 Latina. Fantastic sense of humor, lively and magnetic, glowing with life, and has a cutting sense of humor; she's seen it all; also can be tough--she tends bar and can throw down if she needs to; outwardly, she's the reason locals return to this bar time and again; when it comes to true intimacy and friendship, though, she's guarded and closed off; there's some serious Catholic shame brewing in there. Ethnicity: Latino/Hispanic Inez: Female, 40-55 Latina. A bold enigmatic spirit, loves material comfort and luxury, but is also a community activist and spiritual woman; both snootier and warmer than Daphne; the successful one in the family; she moved from the barrio to the suburbs and has no problem liking the finer things in life; she is proud to be the only Latina on her upper-crust block; she carries the banner of her people wherever she goes. Ethnicity: Latino/Hispanic Acosta: Male, 40-60 Latino. Unpretentious and proud, a man of the people, an entrepreneur; born in Puerto Rico, he came to Philly's barrio and takes extreme pride in employing his people and bettering his community; wears nice loafers to his construction sites, but has no problem getting his hands dirty on the job; he should feel both island and urban, and is a natural leader. Ethnicity: Latino/Hispanic Jenn: Female, 30-39 Asian-American. From a conservative immigrant family, ran away from home to become an activist, performance artist, and merrymaker; lithe, the body of a dancer; immediately identifiable as not mainstream; she's sly and undeniably "other," with a mischievous ebullience and a mind that can slip into the shadows; a history of severe depression. Ethnicity: Asian Pablo: Male, 40-49 Latino. Born in Cuba; a tortured, bombastic painter who takes himself extremely seriously (and therefore is funny); he's sophisticated, intellectual; he's annoyingly macho and argumentative; he's worldly--has lived in Cuba and Stockholm; he has chosen the path of a painter/visionary over a more financially-successful life; he walks, lives, and breathes the injustice in the world. Ethnicity: Latino/Hispanic Ruby: Female, 13-29 teens-20s, Latino or black or mixed-ethnicity. Bright eyes, smart, also psychologically-broken and self-destructive; a gifted girl born into an abusive home; an open heart with an explosive fire; over the course of the play she transitions from girl to teen to woman, so the actor needs to have a flexibly youthful appearance; she's of the street--educated in the worst inner-city schools--but also makes it out to college. Ethnicity: African American, Latino/Hispanic, Ethnically Ambiguous / Mixed Race Rey: Male, 50-65 Manual laborer; country folk, good people; a biker; grew up wrestling hogs in the mud; a blue-collar Buddha with a penchant for beer; a man of few words, but who loves life; still waters run deep. Any ethnicity. Ethnicity: All Ethnicities |
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