Prague Playhouse

Want To Work With A Renowned Opera Director?

September 6th, 2009 at 10:58pm brian

The National Theater is having auditions for standins to work on the new production of Janaček’s opera KÁŤA KABANOVA with legendary American director Robert Wilson. Mr. Wilson is an avant guard director who places special emphasis on the movement in a piece, choreographing movement down to a minute level. Actors will learn to separate the movement “line” from the text “line” so that the two lines can be perceived separately and together make some different whole (read the wikipedia article for a better description of the way he works). The National Theater is  looking for energetic individuals who have theatre experience and a strong knowledge of the English language to help Mr. Wilson create this movement mosaic.

As Mr. Wilson’s assistant director will be coming to Prague next week, they will be hosting auditions for the roles of “extras” or “figurants” (stand-ins, really). These individuals will work with Mr. Wilson this fall to prepare the basics of the entire performance before he begins to work with the soloists next Spring.

The audition will take place on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 3 p.m. in the Administration Building of the National Theatre. For more information or to schedule an audition time, please email (with your headshots — include a full body length photo if you have one — and resume) Don Nixon at the National Theater: d.nixon@narodni-divadlo.cz.

Auditions,Theatre