GOD OF CARNAGE

By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton

 

Director: David J. Wallis
Stage Manager/Assistant Director: Melissa Hatch
Set Design: Melissa Wallis
Light Design/Light Board Op: Isha Kamath
Prop Design: Katlyn Snader
Sound Design: Lindy Englander
Sound Board Op: Brooke Rentzel

 

Auditions

Dates: Nov 4 - 5

Venue: Kids Count Too

Venue Address: 5150 Paige Rd, The Colony, TX 75056

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To Sign Up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A49ACAD2BA1FEC16-52118108-auditions
 

Auditions will consist of cold reading from the script.

Auditions slots are available from 7:30pm until 9:30pm
Callbacks by invitation only on November 6.
$50 Stipend
 

Performances
Performance Dates: February 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, March 1
All performances will be at Lakeside Community Theatre
 

Rehearsals will run January 2 thru February 13
All actors are expected to be off-book by the 1st rehearsal
 

Available Roles
(In Order of Appearance)

Alan Raleigh, 40s, Male Presenting, Annette’s husband and Benjamin’s dad. A boorish lawyer; constantly taking calls on his mobile phone, dealing with a crisis, defending a pharmaceutical company that has been selling a drug that may have bad side effects; nicknames his wife “Woof†woof.” A true alpha male. Secretly proud of his bully son, later admitting Benjamin is “a savage.” Annette is his second wife; he has another son from his first marriage.

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Annette Raleigh, 40s, Female Presenting, Alan’s wife and Benjamin’s mom. Second wife of Alan. Annoys Michael with her taunts about him being “someone descended from Spartacus and John Wayne who can’t even pick up a mouse.” Becomes sick during her visit. Fed up with Alan constantly being on his mobile phone, she believes “Men are so wedded to their gadgets. It belittles them. It takes away all their authority.”

 

Michael Novak, 40s, Male Presenting, Veronica’s husband and Henry’s dad. “I have a wholesale company, household goods.” A self†made wholesaler of domestic hardware. There is a diverse range to this man, grounded and earthy, who one minute is defending cruelty to a pet hamster [guinea pig] and next minute is conscientiously blow drying a damaged art book! Reza uses juxtaposition to compare and contrast the boys’ bullying incident with Michael letting loose his children’s pet hamster, Nibbles.

 

Veronica Novak, 40s, Female Presenting, Michael’s wife and Henry’s mom. Veronica is the victim’s mother, a caring earth mother†type who turns into a wild†woman warrior; a writer, [specializing in Africa,] and works part†time in an art†history bookshop. She tells the other couple in Act I, “I contributed to a collection on the civilization of Sheba, based on the excavations that were restarted at the end of the Ethiopian†Eritrean war. And I have a book coming out in January on the Darfur tragedy.”