So in this play George is an accountant who wanders onto an empty stage, not certain where he is or how he got there. The stage manager informs him he’s the understudy, and must go on in a few minutes. George doesn’t know his name, doesn’t think he’s an actor (“I think I’m an accountant”), and has no idea what play he’s supposed to do.
He’s pushed onstage dressed as Hamlet, and finds himself opposite a glamorous actress who seemingly is in Noel Coward’s Private Lives. George does his best to guess the lines, and guess appropriate behavior, but then the actress leaves, and suddenly a new actor comes in, spouting Shakespearean verse (from Hamlet). This is much harder to guess, and after a while George is left alone and must improvise his own Shakespearean soliloquy.
In the closing sections, George finds himself thrust into a Samuel Beckett play (a combination of Waiting for Godot and Endgame), which he has very little knowledge of. And then suddenly he’s Sir Thomas More in the historical drama A Man for All Seasons, facing a beheading for opposing Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boylen – and alarmingly the executioner seems more real than he should.
Dear All,
A lot has been brewing up lateley at VODO and thought I could share it with you guys as well.Firstly, VODO has been invited to perform at the prestigious Kala Ghoda festival in Mumbai, to stage "Silence, The court is in session". The entire team would be travelling to Mumbai, the show is on Feb 7th at the National gallery of modern Art ( NGMA ). If you have friends in Mumbai, please pass on the message to them as well.
Next on the line is a new, Re-production :-) ... We are working towards staging " Actors Nightmare" at Kyra and a few other places in banglore from Feb - April. So the subject line calling for auditions.
Please make a mark on your calender.
Auditions and Reading:
Where: Alliance Franchaise, Bangalore
Time: 3pm to 6pm
Date: Sunday the 31st, Jan.
Which play - An Actor's Nightmare, by Christopher Durang.Synopsis of the play: Having casually wandered onstage, George is informed that one of the actors, Eddie, has been in an accident and he must replace him immediately. Apparently no one is sure of what play is being performed but George (costumed as Hamlet) seems to find himself in the middle of a scene from Private Lives, surrounded by such luminaries as Sarah Siddons, Dame Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. As he fumbles through one missed cue after another the other actors shift to HAMLET, then a play by Samuel Beckett, and then a climactic scene from what might well be A Man for All Seasons-by which time the disconcerted George has lost all sense of contact with his fellow performers. Yet, in the closing moments of the play, he rises to the occasion and finally says the right lines, whereupon make-believe suddenly gives way to reality as the executioner's axe (meant for Sir Thomas Moore) instead sends poor George to oblivion-denying him a well-earned curtain call
Look forward to seeing you all sooon!
Please sms/call 9880918605 or 9880426783 and confirm if you'd be coming.Cheers
See you all at the auditions.
Regards
Yashwanth.
Dear All,
A lot has been brewing up lateley at VODO and thought I could share it with you guys as well.
Invite you to the photo exhibition of
TV- Viewers by Olivier Culmann
Friday 22 Jan, 2010 at 5.30 pm
At the NGMA,
49 palace road,
Bangalore – 560 052
The exhibition will be on view till 7 February 2010
For details please contact: 22201027
Olivier Culmann photographs people watching TV and their TV sets. The viewers’ eyes are glued to the screen, hypnotized by the images that flicker by. Olivier Culmann captures that instant during which attention subsides and consciousness slumbers, rocked to sleep by the phosphorescence of the cathode ray tubes.
Regards,
Uma BHALERAO
Cultural Coordinator
': +91- 80 - 40 80 81 81
*: culture.afbangalore@afindia.org
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