Cupids Cove Chatter

Front row seats the Indeavour Stage in 2010 , originally uploaded by John Guy2010.

The New World Theatre Project will be holding auditions for its 2011 summer season on Saturday, March 19, 2011.

The summer season is scheduled to run through July and August, operating between St. John’s and Cupids. The New World Theatre Project will produce classical work for professional artists, providing unique ensemble work for those artists and a unique cultural experience for its audience. The mainstage performance space for the Project is The Indeavour Stage, an interpretation of an open air Elizabethan playhouse located in Cupids. This season’s major production is William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1.

If you would like to apply to be a member of the 2011 artistic company, please send a resume and headshot to:

nwtpad@gmail.com

Those selected for an audition will be asked to prepare two contrasting classical monologues, each being no longer than 2 minutes in length.

The New World Theatre Project is also looking for interested stage managers and artists with significant musical and/or live sound design experience.

All submissions must be received by Friday, March 4, 2011 @ 5pm.

Brad Hodder, Director of Julius Caesar

Having just completed a run at the Rabbittown Theatre in St. John’s this weekend, “Caesar” is making its way to Cupids. The play will begin a season of theatrical performances running from June 19 -July 4 in that community, led by the New World Theatre Project.  The play will take place will take place on the specially constructed portable interpretation of an Elizabethan Stage called the “Indeavour,” after the ship which John Guy and his colonists built to sail into Trinity Bay to meet the Beothuk.

For the summer of 2010, the Indeavour will be set up in the backyard of Cupids Haven B&B, Cupids.

Ashley Fitzpatrick of The Telegram in St. John’s interviewed the play’s director and provided the following information:

The play is not a running of William Shakespeare’s classic “Julius Caesar” directly from the page. Instead, it gets creative with the text – the story of the assassination of Roman emperor Julius Caesar and the aftermath of his murder. The unique version uses just three actors and … wait for it …

“I have no Caesar,” said director Brad Hodder.

“The first rehearsal we accidentally assassinated the actor,” he joked. But seriously, no actors were harmed in the making of this play.

“We adapted the script for three actors – that was sort of the genesis of the idea. Then as I got cutting and was looking at the script. … Caesar was in until three or four days until rehearsal started,” he said. Before opening the play at the Rabbittown Theatre, the emperor was nixed.

“The play itself is probably about Brutus anyway, and so this version of it is very much about Brutus. … We didn’t need the character of Caesar in our story. We’re focusing much more on Brutus and Cassius and what they’re going to do to Caesar, what happens to Caesar and then what they’re going to do once that happens. But the actual assassination itself – everybody knows he died,” Hodder said.

And so, “Caesar does make an appearance. He’s just not played by anybody,” he said.

For more information:

The Telegram – St. John’s, NL: Arts & Entertainment | Caesar moves to Cupids, sans Caesar.

Rabbittown Theatre Company & the New World Theatre Project are holding auditions for their upcoming season taking place in Cupids, Newfoundland. The season will consist of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar and 3 original Newfoundland pieces.

This year, the theatre has received  money from the Cupids 400 celebrations, which commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Guy’s establishment of the first English colony in Canada.

Auditions for Productions

Friday, March 26, 2010 Professional Auditions
Rabbittown Theatre 10-1, 2-6

Saturday, March 27, 2010 Student Auditions
Rabbittown Theatre 10-1, 2-6

Sunday, March 28, 2010 Auditions in Cupids – Times – TBA

Monday, March 29, 2010 Auditions at SWGC in Corner Brook -Times – TBA

You will be asked to prepare two contrasting monologues- one must be from the Shakespearean catalogue.

Actors must be available from April to August 2010.

Auditions can also be submitted by video tape. Please contact us for further information regarding this.

*To schedule an audition time, please send all resumes and headshots to rabbittown@nf.aibn.com or 106 Freshwater Rd. St. John’s, NL A1C 2N8

The New World Theatre Project

The New World Theatre Project will be a collection of shows from the era of William Shakespeare (circa 1610), coupled with new commissioned work that will be interpretive, reflective, and entertaining for the whole family.

Jacobean Playhouse

This work will be staged on a spectacular set.  They are building an interpretation of a Jacobean playhouse.  The playhouse will incorporate design elements that would have been seen in structures of the day, but with materials that would have been readily available to the group of 39 settlers that landed with John Guy in 1610.

In order to guarantee the success of the project next year, and into the future, we have secured a tremendous international partnership with Shakespeare’s Globe Centre Canada in Toronto and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.

This is a massive undertaking so Rabbittown Theatre Company has brought on two of the province’s finest producers to assist in the project; Brad Hodder and Geoff Adams.  Rabbittown Theatre Company will also be implementing a full time General Manager position for the operation of the company.

Jacobean Playhouse