Auditions for Death of a Salesman

Theater Auditions
Actors Lab for Death of a Salesman
Wed, Dec 5, 11am
Teatro Santa Ana
Biblioteca Pública
Insurgentes 25

The name Willy Loman is a metaphor for that human tragedy; spending your life pursuing the wrong dream. It’s an American story born out of the idea that we must catch the brass ring or die trying. Willy Loman, the salesman, went through life with a smile, a few funny stories and his shoes well-shined, believing that surely success would follow. “Make a touchdown and the world is yours,” Willy assures his son. Actors Lab will hold auditions Wednesday, December 5, at 11am at the Biblioteca’s Teatro Santa Ana.

We will also meet weekly to workshop with the actors on their scenes, at their convenience. Before Actors Lab attempts to satisfy an audience we must first satisfy ourselves. We may be satisfied to present previews of Death of a Salesman in the spring of 2008.

The play requires eight men and five women. For questions, call Murray, 152 4942, or cleokam@cybermatsa.com.mx. 

Theater to play with and stimulate the mind

Theater
El Tendedero
Sat–Sun, Dec 8–9, 5 & 8pm
Teatro Santa Ana
Biblioteca Pública
Insurgentes 25 for 5pm
Reloj 50A for 8pm
100 pesos

El Tendedero is a game of dance that stimulates the imagination and invites you to live through happiness. The spectacle is a theatrical, comical game; this production is for actress-clown Doña Remiendos, a singular, ordinary and extraordinary woman. Doña Remiendos is absent-minded but entertaining; it seems that she is a bit mad but simultaneously she demands that we ask questions of ourselves. She is a worker who not only washes, but also stretches and mends the clothes.

During her daily work, she submerges in situations that surprise us, confronts and takes advantage of us to amuse ourselves. One thinks with her, that dresses and pieces are fragments of her life and of her recollections, and she is stretching them to the sun. When midday comes, we see her coiled among her skirts with which she creates her prominent figures, which get confused and intermingle. The most important thing is that she plays, she dances and amuses herself with the tendedero, a place where clothes are spread to dry.



Presenting an empty plate



Theater

An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf

Weds–Thurs, Dec 5–6, 7pm

St. Paul’s Church

Cardo 6

Donation 10 pesos



No menu is necessary at the world’s greatest restaurant, the Café du Grand Boeuf in Paris. Why? Because they have everything. The staff is awaiting the arrival of Victor, the Café’s owner and sole patron. But when “Monsieur” returns from the bullfights in Madrid, disheveled and morose, his wish is simple—to die of starvation at his own table. The frantic staff, whose very lives depend on Victor’s appetite, try to change his mind, but to no avail. Finally, they make a last-ditch plea—will he let them prepare one final meal—provided they leave it in the kitchen? Instead they will describe it, course by course, over a series of empty platters…and the “feast of adjectives and adverbs” begins…a “comic tragedy in seven courses” celebrating the joys of cooking, sex, bullfighting and the collected works of Ernest Hemingway.

The New York Times called it a play of “operatic looniness,” while the Boston Globe 

said it was a “hilarious existential romp.” The CurtainUp critic wrote “without ever sacrificing the prevailing zaniness of the situation, the author flavors it all with enough sadness about dashed hopes and inertia to make this a menu filled with food for thought as well as laughter.”

Playreaders will present An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf by Michael Hollinger on December 5 and 6. The cast includes Jim Newell, John Wharton, Joanna Bryne, Seth Sharp and new readers Bob Knight and Judy Newell. Lola Smith directs and Michael Gottlieb will be handling lights and sound. Performances start at 7:30 or earlier if the house is full; doors open at 7pm.