- - THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY - -

*****AUDITION NOTICE*****

Following a sold-out first season earlier
in the year, Diatomic Productions returns to the Monash University Student
Theatre to present Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray as part of the Melbourne
Fringe Festival. It will run from October 7 - October 19 and will be a profit
share production

The play is a 3-act traditional theatre
adaptation of Oscar Wilde's darkest work and only novel. It follows Dorian
Gray, a young nobleman who falls so in love with his portrait that he wishes it
should age instead of himself. This it does, and as Dorian slips further into
the abyss of personal and social tragedy, his friend and mentor Lord Henry
Wotton watches on.

To join members of the ensemble from the
first season, we will be auditioning for:

1. DORIAN GRAY

the central character of the play, Dorian
is a young male actor able to play naive and curious as well as selfish and
self-obsessed. He is on stage for almost the entire time and will very often
play the straight man to Lord Henry's biting humour.

2. SIBYL VANE

the love interest for most of the play,
Sibyl is a young female actor with the ability to combine both a strong and
aluring stage presence and a naivity of her own power over others. She is the
lead female role in the play.

3. DR ALAN CAMPBELL

  
JIMMY

  
MERCUTIO

one of the strongest characters in the
latter half of the play, Dr. Campbell - one of Dorian's former friends who was
drawn down to depravity while following Dorian - sets up the mechanics leading
to Dorian's eventual fall. Requiring a male actor able to convey a sense of
gravity, Dr. Campbell will also take on 2 small roles in the earlier stages of
the play.

4. SIR THOMAS BURDON, MP

  
FRANCIS

  
THE DRUGGED MAN

  
THE GAMEKEEPER

with several minor characters to play, this
part requires a male actor with timing and charisma able to play a young
lordling at dinner, a

reserved manservent, an opium affected
drifter and the head forester at Dorian's country estate. Sir Thomas has the
ability to perform a scene-stealing rambling monologue during Act I.

5. MRS VANE

  
LADY BENNETT

playing both the mother of the lead
character in Act I and a lady at dinner in Act III, this part requires a strong
female actor able to portray maternal devotion. The role of Mrs Vane especially
has the opportunity for exploration and discovery.

6. LADY AGATHA

  
LADY CAVANAGH

  
SCARLETTE

these roles require a versatile female
actor, able to portray both stately elegance and the affectations of a 19th
century prostitute. All 3 are speaking roles with an opportunity for strong
physical acting in the role of Scarlette.

7. LADY ADELAIDE

  
LADY WILDE

  
GINGER

similar to the roles immediately above, the
female actor who takes this position will vary in character between a Lady of
Society and a lady of the night

Members of the ensemble will be heavily engaged
in the production, even when not appearing on stage as the set, designed to be
easily movable to create spaces, and props will all be brought on by members of
the cast.

Also, the Book Sequence that concludes Act
II involves all members of the Company in a choreographed representation of
Dorian's mind as he is 'poisoned' by Lord Henry's book.

AUDITIONS will be held on Monday August 25
and Tuesday 26 (earlier individual auditions may be arranged if necessary)

REHEARSALS will be determined by consensus
of cast availability

TO BOOK AN AUDITION

email your CV and headshot (if you have
one) to auditions@thepictureofdoriangray.com.au

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

go to www.thepictureofdoriangray.com.au

or write to

greg@diatomicproductions.com