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ATC: Arsenic and Old Lace (23-27 Oct 2012)

Quotes about other productions of this play:

“A delightful comic concoction.” The Guardian

“Good macabre fun. The lines are bright. The story is mad.” The New York Times

“You wouldn’t believe that homicidal mania could be such great fun.” The Sun

In 1941, New Yorkers were looking for some entertainment to take their minds off of the war in Europe and the growing fear that America would be pulled into it. Broadway gave them exactly what they were looking for: Arsenic and Old Lace. The play became an immediate critical and popular success, running for over 1,000 performances. It also became a hit in England in 1942 as theatergoers who were suffering through post-blitz London lined up for tickets. In 1944, Hollywood produced a film version starring Cary Grant that became a huge box office success.

Mortimer is about to propose to his sweetheart when he discovers that his two dear but eccentric aunts poison lonely old bachelors with their elderberry wine and have a number of corpses buried in the cellar. And it gets worse. Throw in one brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, another who is a psychopathic killer, plus a slightly intoxicated plastic surgeon, and you’ll be laughing the entire way through.

For more information:http://atc.theatreinbrussels.com

This play is presented by special arrangement with ALMO Auteursbureau Antwerp

ETC: An Evening with Strindberg (6-10 Nov 2012)

ETCetera asbl presents

An evening with Strindberg

Warehouse Studio Theatre

6-10 November 2012 at 8pm

directed by Anna Holmén

consisting of two plays:

“The Night of the Tribades”:* a play about Strindberg by P.O. Enquist (performed in English, translation by Gunilla Anderman)
and
“Den starkare” (The Stronger): a short one act play by August Strindberg (performed in Swedish with English surtitles)

For bookings, please email tickets.etcetera@gmail.com, or call 0492 64 16 60 if you have any queries.
Tickets: €15; groups of 5+: €13; groups of 10+: €11€; paid up members (please mention): 13€.

Per Olov Enquist’s first play, “The Night of the Tribades”, about Strindberg and his first wife Siri von Essen, became an international success. It is a play about a playwright rehearsing a play, “The Stronger”, inspired by his own life, and the layers of truth and fiction succeed each other.

“Det förefaller mig som om jag går i sömnen; som om liv och dikt blandats. Jag vet inte om [min pjäs] är en dikt, eller om mitt liv varit det.”
(”I have the feeling that I am sleepwalking, as if life and fiction have mixed. I do not know if my play, or if my life, was just a dream.”)

August Strindberg, 14th November 1887

BATS: Calendar Girls (24-27 Oct 2012)

Calendar Girls

by Tim Firth, based on the Miramax film

screenplay by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth

directed for BATS by Tom De Beckker

A group of extraordinary women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire WI, persuade one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference – no more photos of Wharfedale bridges or Norman churches for them. Overcoming their initial reserve, the friends drop their dressing gowns, their modesty spared only by artfully placed cakes, knitting and flower arrangements.

Puzzling their husbands, mortifying their children and riding the wrath of the outraged WI, they spark a global phenomenon. But as media interest snowballs, the Calendar Girls find themselves exposed in ways they’d never expected, revealing more than they’d ever planned. A very English story with a very English heart, Calendar Girls is quirky, poignant and hilarious.

Adapted by Tim Firth from the Miramax film of the same name, it is based on an uplifting and very inspiring true story.

Performances on 24, 25, 26, 27 (20.00) and 28 (15.00) October 2012 – Tickets are €15 (€13 for students and >65)

ITG: A Dublin Bloom (13-17 Nov 2012)

A Dublin Bloom

Scarabaeus Espace Théâtrale

13-17 November 2012

At 8am on 16th June 1904, Leopold Bloom goes out in search of kidneys for breakfast and finds immortality. Joyce’s Ulysses captures the essence of Dublin, finding the stuff of myth in the everyday. Funny, ribald, intellectual and earthy, Bolger’s A Dublin Bloom recreates Joyce’s epic for the theatre.

There is a cast of 12 – Bloom, Molly, Stephen and young Stephen (boy) play themselves throughout while the many characters who people Bloom’s day are played by 4 actors and 4 actresses – each taking on a variety of different roles – all ages required.

The play will be directed by Colma O’Luanaigh and will run from Tuesday 13 to Saturday 17 of November in the Scarabaeus Espace Théâtrale in Schaerbeek.

You can book tickets here.

BSS: Richard II (27 Nov – 1 Dec 2012)

“The Tragedy of Richard II” chronicles the overthrow of the young King Richard by the future King Henry IV. The downfall and humiliation of Richard, though his own fault, shows the limits of a king’s power, as well as the loyalty of his subjects and friends. It is one of the most beautifully written of Shakespeare’s plays and features many oft-quoted speeches, and soliloquies”.

Richard II was be staged at Scarabeus Theater (Rue Creuse), November 27-December1, 2012

ECC: Presumption (4-8 Dec 2012)

The ECC presents

Presumption by Sheffield group Third Angel

Directed by Malinda Coleman

The Wareouse Studio Theatre, 4-8 December 2012 – 8.15pm

What happens in a relationship after hearts have stopped racing, the honeymoon is long over and you settle down to ordinary life? Presumption, an original, innovative theatre piece devised by Sheffield group Third Angel, is a relationship play with a difference. Intriguing for theatre lovers, the play weaves between the fictional relationship of the characters and the collaboration of two performers who start out on an empty stage…

With Tania Rabesandratana and Yorgos Filippakis.

Ticket available here!

ATC: A Delicate Balance (17-26 Jan 2013)

American drama at its best: ATC Studio Production

A DELICATE BALANCE by EDWARD ALBEE

directed by John Stanton

Over the course of one weekend, the lives of a well-to-do couple come under attack by family members and friends. Elegant and entertaining, this Pulitzer Prize-winning play beguiles its audience into an icy wasteland of the human heart…

When: Jan 17-19, Jan 23-26 at 8pm

Where: Warehouse Studio Theatre, rue Waelhem 69A, Schaerbeek (Brussels)

Tickets available here.

BATS: Dick Whittington (26-28 Jan)

n this classic English tale we learn of the boy who goes to London to look for the streets paved in gold, and who eventually becomes Lord Mayor London three times. Look out Boris!

We get all the elements of traditional English pantomime. Goodies and baddies, boys being girls, and girls being boys, the topsy turvy world of pantomime takes you into a world of very English fantasy.

Will King Rat triumph over his arch enemy the Fairy Queen? Oh no he won’t! But then again – he just might. If you are not there to cheer Dick on.

BSS: The Merchant of Venice (5-9 Feb 2013)

Performances are Tuesday 5th of February to Saturday 9th at 8pm, with a matinée at 2pm on Saturday the 9th at Theatral Espace Scarabaeus (map).

Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” is a wonderful and complex piece of theatre which confronts such current human issues as love, hate, prejudice, and above all, religious intolerance, the fear and distrust of the “other”. Money and debt are central themes in this play.

The plot revolves around a Venetian merchant who can’t repay a loan from a hated moneylender. Bassanio needs money because he has spent all his fortune and is in debt everywhere especially to Antonio, who has bailed him out on more than one occasion before. He asks Antonio again for more money (a business deal, an investment, a way to recoup his losses) to finance his pursuit of the rich Portia. If he wins her he can restore his fortunes and pay off all his debts.

Antonio’s own wealth is tied up in ships heading back to Venice. He raises the money for Bassanio by borrowing from Shylock, a Jewish merchant he has previously refused to do business with. Shylock loans the money because he wants Antonio above all people to be indebted to him because for once he will be on an equal basis with him.

Antonio’s fleet is wrecked at sea and the once-rich man becomes unable to repay this debt. Shylock is contemptuous of him as well as furious – Antonio’s superiority over Shylock is at an end. On discovering the elopement of his daughter with a friend of Bassanio’s his hatred for Antonio and all Christians, and his desire for revenge, turns him to the bond – the ‘security’ he demanded for Antonio’s loan – a pound of flesh to be taken from Antonio.

This production is set in late 1920’s Venice and Belmont and the main characters are all in some way connected to the Mafia. The Duke being the head of the mafia and the ultimate dispenser of “justice”. Setting it in the late 1920s gives an opportunity to reflect on the very

Book online here!

Box Office e-mail: bss.boxoffice@gmail.com – Telephone help line: 0488 631 836

ECC: Calendar Girls (12-16 March 2013)

Calendar Girls is based on the film of the true story of a remarkable group of women who decided to raise £500 to replace the sofa in the visitors’ room of the cancer ward of their local hospital: by producing a calendar with a difference. Instead of a calendar of spectacular local views, they produce a calendar with spectacular views of the locals!

This funny, but very moving play follows the changes this modest plan brings to the lives of these women. We follow them as they confront their fears and deal with the consequences of their success.

In fact, to date, the ladies have raised over £3 million for Leukaemia Research in the UK, and many other charities have benefited by following their lead.

The English Comedy Club is proud to follow their example and will be donating at least €2 from each ticket sold to Fondation contre le Cancer in Brussels.

Time: 8 pm , 12-16 March 2013, 3 pm 16 March 2013

Ticket Price: €16

To book go to: http://ecc.theatreinbrussels.com

ATC: Cafe Theatre (17-20 April 2013)

CAFE THEATRE: April 17-20 (7pm buffet, 8pm show)

Maison Blanche, 506 Chaussée de StJob, Uccle/Ukkel

Click here to buy Café Theatre tickets

A three-part evening of drama, comedy, good food and drinks!

Part One: “Ted, Rose” – a one-act play by Matthew Snoding (Winner of the ATC Playwriting Competition 2012)

It’s been a surprise party for Rose’s 10^th wedding anniversary, but more surprises lay in store when she and her husband clean up the mess . . . Is it time to re-evaluate the past, and question the future?

Part Two:

Proudly presenting the Brussels Singers!

Part Three:

Improv Comedy – laugh until it hurts!

CAFE THEATRE: April 17-20 (7pm buffet, 8pm show)

ATC: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (3-4 May 2013)

27 Wagons Full of Cotton – Tennessee Williams

3-4 May 2013 – Warehouse Studio Theatre

Williams wrote over 70 one-act plays in addition to such full-length classics as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

27 Wagons Full of Cotton, “a Mississippi Delta comedy”, was his twentieth one-act play, written in 1946 and set in 1934 against the background of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “good neighbour” policy.

It follows the story of a cotton gin owner, Jake Meighan (Andy Blumenthal), and his young wife, Flora (Peyton Cimino). When there is a fire in the neighbouring plantation suspicion falls on Jake and the plantation superintendent, Silva Vicarro (Gareth Lewis), comes looking for his own special brand of vengeance.

Tickets: €10 (including one free drink) – Click here to buy 27 Wagons Full of Cotton tickets

ITG: The Importance of Being Earnest (21-25 May 2013)

The Irish Theatre Group are very excited to announce that the Box Office is now open for our next show, The Importance of Being Earnest, at Palais des Beaux-Arts Studio, running from Tuesday 21st to Saturday 25th May. Tickets can be purchased directly from the from the BOZAR website, by telephone (02/507.82.00) or in person.

Everyone knows (or thinks they know) Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”. Some of the lines and situations are among the most well known in the theatre world – Lady Bracknell, Algernon, the Honourable Gwendolen Fairfax have become reference figures for artifice, style and snobbery.

Andrew McIlroy’s exciting new take on Oscar Wilde’s classic sparkles, while never losing sight of the dark satire behind the façade of comedy. While the play is certainly a glittering social comedy – it is much more; it is filled with anger, deception and a biting criticism of morals and attitudes. It’s this – this darker underbelly of a much loved classic – that the forthcoming ITG production will seek to explore. It will be fun, noisy, energetic and alternative, Wilde would hopefully have approved.

Our shows normally sell out so book early to avoid disappointment.

We look forward to seeing you there!

This production is supported by the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Visit our website http://www.irishtheatregroup.com/ to keep up to date with our shows and to sign up to our mailing list.

Method acting workshop

FROM NEW YORK CITY

Award Wining Director Robert Castle

June 11 – 22, 2012, in Brussels
Sense memory exercises are the pillars of Lee Strasberg’s Method. Robert Castle has continued in the tradition of Strasberg and Peggy Feury in developing the actor’s effectiveness with his imagined experience exercises and his unique relaxation technique. Along with movement exercises and a new form of Affective Memory, these exercises form a regular training for the actor and are precious tools in acting truthfully on stage and in front of the camera.
During the workshop, Robert Castle addresses various myths about the Method and helps you to layer your prior training onto it and his personally crafted techniques. His version of the Method is a very effective way to help you deepen your realistic acting, put away your inner judge and free your imagination.
The goal will be to reach that zone where the actor is deeply connected and interacts effectively with the place, the circumstances of the play and the other characters, to the point where the acting becomes spontaneous and unconscious, and the character work daring and unique.

Program

10am-1pm
The morning starts with a full body relaxation relying on deep work in breathing. It continues with exercises of growing complexity, including sense memory and imagined experience. Every participant goes through the exercises at the same time, at their own level. There is no audience.
2pm-5pm
The afternoon is dedicated to monologue and scene work. You will work on one monologue and one scene with a partner. The texts are chosen by Robert Castle according to the needs and desires you have expressed before the workshop and sent about one week prior. Though you will find Mr.Castle to be a very demanding director, the scenes are a ground of experimentation, free from result expectations.

Robert Castle

Robert Castle began his career as an actor, studying with Lee Strasberg and Peggy Feury and working with well-known artists such as Sean Penn, Jeff Goldblum and Jane Fonda. He taught at the State University of New York, UCLA and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute before co-founding with Alejandra Orozco International Theatre New York.
His technique, which integrates Stanislavski and Strasberg’s practices as well as personally developed exercises, has made him the most sought-after instructor at the Lee Strasberg Institute. He now travels and leads acting workshops and master classes all around the world, which have become very popular among the professional acting community.
He is also a director and has won many awards including the Best Director and Best Play of the Year Awards in Brazil for his production The Diary of Anne Frank in 2010. The leading actor and actress were also nominated.

Practical information

Who: The workshop is open to actors and performers from other disciplines. Places are limited to 16.
When: 10 days from June 11th to 22nd, Monday to Friday, 10am – 5pm
Where: Carthago Delenda Est, rue Sylvain Denayer, 51 – 1070 Bruxelles
Price : 870 €
You will need to rehearse with your partner after the workshop hours and during the weekend. Please consider whether you have enough free time.

Questions and registration: b.bregeault@yahoo.fr

If you want to know more about the workshop visit our website: www.itnewyork.org

ETC: Antigone (25-29 June 2013)

25 – 29 June 2013 at 20:00 / Matinée on 29 June at 14:00

Petite salle du Théâtre Varia, 154 Rue Gray, 1050 Bruxelles

Tickets €16 / Students €13 /

Please book tickets via:

www.bouge.org/antigone.html

antigonereservations@gmail.com

The Theban Trilogy: When King Oedipus finally learns the truth about his identity and realizes that he has killed his father and married his mother, he responds by cutting his eyes out and going into exile. His wanderings lead him to Colonus, where he dies, leaving behind the tragic legacy of a cursed bloodline: two sons and two daughters whose fates are doomed.

Antigone is the final part of what is commonly referred to as Sophocles’ trilogy of Theban plays. The events of the play begin on the morning after the deaths of Oedipus’ sons, Polyneices and Eteocles, who kill each other in battle, one defending, the other attacking Thebes. King Creon, the city’s new leader, decrees that no one is to bury the corpse of Polyneices, who is declared a traitor to Thebes, on pain of death. Antigone chooses to take a stand against what she perceives to be unjust, and break the city’s law by burying her brother. This is a defiant and criminal act. But it is an act of self-sacrificing courage that still echoes in the heroes of today.

Expect an evening full of atmosphere, music and ancient messages that have been passed down the generations to warn audiences about the dangers of power, pride and ignorance.

Near Place Jourdan, closest Metro Schuman or Maelbeek

(Please do not park in the Lidl car park)

Theatre Summer School 2012

We’re now receiving a steady stream of bookings since we launched Theatre Summer School 2012. A choice of two fantastic courses to be held at the University of Wales, Newport – Caerleon Campus (South East Wales) from 12th – 18th August. Easily accessible from road, rail and air!

Competitively priced, a range of discounts and an Easier Payment Plan to help spread the cost.

This year’s choice of courses are…

Theatre Mezze with Ben Humphrey

A jam-packed course designed to take your knowledge and practice of theatre to a whole new level. Devising, acting, vocal-work, mask-work, physical theatre and text study will be woven into a week of intense and exciting work that will improve your theatrical stamina and dexterity.

Theatre Mezze is led by Ben Humphrey: Assoc Director of Worcester Repertory Company, Artistic Director of the Swan Youth Theatre and one of the country’s most popular GoDA adjudicators.

Approaching Shakespeare with the RSC

Join practitioners from the world-class Royal Shakespeare Company for a series of intensive workshops. Throughout the week you will work to explore and unlock the language of Shakespeare and bring the text to life. The course will continue to explore how one approaches staging a Shakespeare production.

Approaching Shakespeare will be led in three parts by RSC practitioners: Firstly, Voice practitioner Victoria Williams (recently worked on the 7 times Olivier winning Matilda) will be exploring voice and text. Following her, Anna Morrissey from the RSC Movement department will be working with attendees on physicalising the text and Helen Leblique (RSC Directing practitioner) will be closing the week by putting scenes together, implementing the techniques explored earlier in the week.

Both courses are suitable for both beginners and the more experienced.

Course fees range from £310 – £600*. Great value for a week of fantastic theatre training!

Discounts are also available if you are booking more than one place. Plus, if you would like to spread the payments through our Easier Payment Plan, contact Gary on +44 (0)29 2045 2200 or at gary@dramawales.org.uk.

For the full course details see the Summer School page of our website.

*Full range of course fees is shown on the booking form which is downloadable from the DAW website. If you have problems accessing this information please contact Gary at the DAW office.

Please feel free to contact me, if you have any questions.

Gary Thomas

Cyd-gysylltydd Hyfforddiant a Gwyliau Drama, Cymdeithas Ddrama Cymru

Training and Festivals Co-ordinator, Drama Association of Wales

Ebost/Email: gary@dramawales.org.uk

Swyddfa/Office: 029 2045 2200

Ffôn Symudol/Mobile: 07523 916 779

BUTT Awards 2013 – results

The nominations for the 2012-2013 season BUTT awards are shown below in no particular order, with the winner highlighted in pure gold!

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Producing Workshop (20 September 2012)

Would you like to become involved in the Brussels theatre community, but not necessarily on the stage? Would you like to use your professional skills in a different area? We are always looking for dedicated producers to help us put our shows together. This FREE evening workshop will guide you through the steps necessary to produce for one of our shows. If you are interested then we will attach you to an experienced producer to help them on a show.

When: Thursday, 20^th September
Where: The Warehouse, 69a, rue Walheam, 1030 Schaerbeek
Time: from 19:30

For more information contact Deborah Griffith on 0486 200330 or by e-mail deborahgriffith@mac.com

2013-2014 Season Launch (15 Sept 2013)

Launching the 2013/2014 season
Theatre Open Day
15 September 2013, 2pm – 8pm

The ATC , BSS, ECC and ITG are organising a joint “Theatre Open Day” on Sunday, 15 September at the Warehouse to launch the 2013/2012 season.

provide all our active group members an opportunity to socialise
show our regular audiences what happens backstage and what goes into producing a show
develop new interest in back stage roles
attract newcomers.

There will be performances throughout the afternoon and short presentations on some of the skills needed to put on a show (makeup/stage management/stage combat/costumes/set painting). Visitors will be able to wander around the rehearsal rooms and workshops, where we will be displaying posters and photos of past productions to show off the best of our work.

Visit the INFO STANDS for details of up-coming productions, and sign up to our e-mail lists.
Get involved – listen to the presentations, and chat to our representatives to find out more,
Enjoy tea, coffee and soft drinks in our theatrical café,
Eat homemade sandwiches and cakes,
Celebrate – toast the new season with wine or beer.

Come along for an afternoon of fun and entertainment. Bring family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. Entrance is free.

For more info please contact: theatreopenday@gmail.com.

ECC: Copenhagen (8-12 Oct 2013)

In 1941 the Danish Nobel Prize winning physicist, Niels Bohr, and his German counterpart, Werner Heisenberg, met at Bohr’s home in occupied Denmark. The former colleagues and good friends were now technically enemies. Today they meet once more, together with Bohr’s wife Margrethe, to examine the events of that mysterious meeting.

Tension, guilt, suppressed emotion, nuclear physics and human drama are all bound up in this intriguing play.

8-12 October 2013 at 8pm, SOLD OUT!

ATC: Twelve Angry Men (22-26 Oct 2013)

The American Theatre Company will be performing Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, directed by Deborah Griffith at the Palais de Beaux Arts Studio Theatre from 22-26 October 2013.

12 Angry Men is the story of twelve men‚ trapped in a jury room‚ who must decide on the guilt or innocence of a young man accused of murdering his father. Tensions run high as personalities come into conflict‚ stereotypes and prejudices are confronted‚ and societal assumptions are called into question.

Although the original text of this classic American drama dates from 1957‚ its message still resonates today: democracy and justice cannot function without a commitment from members of society to take part in the process. To quote Plato‚ “The price of apathy in public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

Tickets are available from the Palais de Beaux Arts web site.

Swan: Skylight (1-2 Nov 2013)

Skylight analyses the aftermath of an adulterous relationship between two lovers after three years apart. In David Hare’s multi-award-winning play, questions of love and politics collide.

The play will be performed by Bedford’s Swan Theatre Company, who have a long-standing tradition of bringing great shows to Brussels.

Warehouse Studio Theatre, 1 & 2 November 2013 at 8pm
Tickets €15, available here: Swan: Skylight (1-2 Nov 2013).

ETC: Buonaparte (5-9 Nov 2013)

ETCetera asbl has the pleasure of presenting a new event in November 2013: “Buonaparte: rise and fall”, an evening of two plays about the famous historical figure, at moments when he was not yet, or was not any longer, the Emperor of France.

The evening includes two plays about Napoleon:

“Man of Destiny” by Bernard Shaw, performed in English, with French surtitles.
“La Dernière Salve” by Jean-Claude Brisville, performed in French, with English surtitles.

Both plays put up hypothetical relationships, some based on truth, with argument and humour, against which Napoleon the man emerges from Napoleon the myth.

The performances will take place from 5-9 November 2013 in the Warehouse Studio Theatre, rue Waelhem 69a, 1030 Schaerbeek, at 20.00.

“Man of Destiny” is directed by Hugh Dow, “La Dernière Salve” by Marc Léotard, both experienced Brussels-based theatre directors and actors.

For further information, please contact info.etcetera2009@gmail.com

Tickets available here or by phone on 0493 072438.

BSS: Way of the World (13-16 Nov 2013)

Double-dealing,pretence, seduction! Great wit, dazzling dialogue! Mirabell sets out to marry Millamant – but to wed her with her fortune intact, he must outwit her aunt, the vain and fanciful Lady Wishfort, who despises him and wants Millamant to marry Sir Wilfull Witwoud.

Congreve’s 18^th century comedy of manners exposes a superficial society in which love and money are inextricably bound – a world of verbal battles amid the scheming of fools, fops, rivals and villains.

Performances at the Bronks Theatre, from Wednesday 13th to Saturday 16th of November at 8.pm and Matinée at 2.30 pm on Saturday.

Book tickets here!

ITG: An Béal Bocht (14-23 Nov 2013)

The Irish Theatre Group presents An Béal Boch by Myles na gCopaleen (The Poor Mouth by Flann O’Brien) on 14-16 and 21-23 November 2013 – a play as Gaeilge (in Irish) with English surtitles, directed by Michelle Ryan.
Tickets available here.

ECC: Miss Julie auditions (1, 3, 4 Dec 2013)

“Miss Julie” is probably Sweden’s best-known play. This 90 minute play is set in a manor house, and the plot is built around the tensions that arise when the count’s daughter visits the servants in the kitchen on a midsummer’s evening. It will be performed at the Warehouse 10-14 June 2014.

Auditions will be held at rue Veronese 28 (close to Schuman) on:

Sunday 1 December – 14:00
Tuesday 3 December – 20:00
Wednesday 4 December – 20:00

We are looking for:

Miss Julie, female 25-35 years
Jean, valet, male 30-40 years
Kristin, cook, female 25-40 years

For more information, contact the director Anna Holmén,annaholmen@hotmail.com or 0473-870998.

ECC: Jack and the Beanstalk (5-7 Dec 2013)

The ECC is proud to present a pantomime for all the family – Jack and the Beanstalk directed by Conrad Toft. Fun and entertainment for all the family in this production written especially for the Brussels audience.

The cast includes Cath Howdle in her Brussels debut as Jack, Henri Colens (Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Diana of Dobsons) as Simple Simon, Charif Wehbe (The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest) as Widow Twanky, Hugo de Chassiron (The Glass Menagerie, The Merchant of Venice) as Baron Hardup and many, many more.

Tickets are €18 for adults and €14 for children.

ATC: Doubt: A Parable (18, 20 March 2014)

The ATC will be holding auditions for its main stage production of Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley from 21-25 October 2014. The play is a gripping, suspense-filled tug-of-war between a popular priest and a strong-minded nun who suspects her colleague of improper conduct with a student. The play explores a number of themes, the most prominent being existentialism, which is studied through the art of the parable. The play is the recipient of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, Tony, Drama Desk, New York Drama Critics Choice, Outer Critics Circle and Obie Awards. The play went on to become a movie starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis, all of whom received Oscar nominations.

Details
Date and time: 18 and 20 March at 20.00 (Tuesday and Thursday), 23 March (Sunday) at 14.00
Location: Warehouse (73 Rue Waelhem, Schaerbeek), please press the white button to enter the gate.

We will rehearse an average of two days a week in the months of May and June and with a break in July and August. When rehearsals resume, we will be rehearsing three days a week.

You must confirm your audition date with the director, Christopher Flores (flores.christopher@gmail.com). If you have any questions or would like to receive the script, please contact him by email or phone 0495 83 43 12.

Cast
Father Brendan Flynn – Comes from a working class background. He is in his 30s/40s.
Sister Aloysius Beauvier – Mother Superior and Principal of St. Nicholas Catholic School. She is in her 50s/60s.
Sister James – A young nun in her 20s who is a teacher at St. Nicholas School.
Mrs. Muller – An African-American woman in her 30s and the mother of Donald Muller, the boy at the center of the play’s controversy.

The director will not be strict with the age ranges but will cast according to what is believable and best for the production.

Preparation
Men – If you would like to audition for the role of Father Flynn, you must prepare one of the monologues from either pages 13-14 or 35-36. It is recommended that you memorize the monologue, though it is not a requirement. You are also requested to dress in black.

Women – For those wishing to audition for the role of Sister Aloysius or Sister James, please come dressed in all black and have your hair tied back. You will be given a head piece, similar to a habit, at the audition as the nun’s habit will alter your age appearance and will emphasize your facial features and expressions, both of which are critical for casting.

Mrs. Muller – For those wishing to audition for Mrs Muller, you need to have an American accent. All American accents will be considered except for a strong southern accent. Women with naturally darker complexions who are not of African/African-American heritage are encouraged to audition.

ALL – Please review the scenes below, which will be used during the audition. It is advised that you read the play beforehand and know the context of the scenes below.

Scenes
Sister Aloysius and Sister James
Pages 19-20 starting with Sister Aloysius’ line “What do you think that sermon was about?”
Pages 23-24 starting with Sister James’ line “He has a protector.”

Sister Aloysius, Sister James and Father Flynn
Pages 31-32 starting with Father Flynn’s line “What about Donald Muller?”

Sister Aloysius and Mrs. Muller
Pages 42-43 starting with Sister Aloysius’ line “I’m concerned about the relationship between Father Flynn and your son.

ATC: Sylvia (21 Jan – 1 Feb 2014)

The American Theatre Company presents Sylvia by A.R. Gurney, directed by Christine Marchand.

21 – 25 January & 26 January – 1 February 2014 at the Warehouse Studio Theatre.

NT Live @ Brussels – War Horse (27 Feb 2014)

NT Live is back in Brussels!

Theatre in Brussels

English-language amateur theatre in and around Brussels