Tout Comme Elle (English-Language Premiere). Director Brigitte Haentjens. Casting Contact: Morgan Norwich / morgan@necessaryangel.com. Deadline For Submissions December 30, 2009. Audition Dates & Locations January 13-14, 2010 (Location To Be Confirmed). Call Back Dates & Locations January 15, 2010 (Location TBC). Rehearsals Start Early/Mid May 2011 (TBC). Official Opening Early June 2011 (TBC). Closing Mid June 2011 (TBC). Role(s) Available: 50 female actors of all types, ages (18+), shapes, sizes, cultural backgrounds, abilities, levels of experience and interests needed. Singing ability an asset but not required. Submission Instructions Please send a hard copy headshot and resume to: Necessary Angel, c/o Morgan Norwich, 513 Manning Avenue, Toronto, ON, M6G 2V8. Deadline: December 30, 2009. Please note: What age range you play; whether you would characterize yourself as a ‘singer’; if you are available May 10-23, 2010 for a possible workshop (TBC); and whether you are a French-speaker. Storyline: Necessary Angel, together with acclaimed Quebec director and Siminovitch Prize-winner Brigitte Haentjens, will collaborate with a diverse group of fifty women on the development of a large-scale new work entitled Tout Comme Elle. Tout Comme Elle is a poignant and daring piece of theatre about the inevitability of loss and the eternal nature of love. The play combines song, movement and music with a rich and poetic text to explore the difficult, painful, yet necessary separation of daughter and mother. The English-language Premiere of Tout Comme Elle will take place in June 2011, Tout Comme Elle has been commissioned by the Luminato Toronto Festival of Arts + Creativity. For more information, visit http://www.necessaryangel.com/toutcommeelle. We will only be accepting hard copy submissions. Open to Equity and non-union.

Thanks for your thanks – though I should point out that Lindsay wrote the piece. Once again my major role was to push for bar graphs… My favourite theatre school trick is when instead of doing enough plays for everyone to learn, they just do one, and everyone gets to play the same part at different moments in the show. “We are all Hamlet”, just none of us learn about what kind of stamina it would take to play him.

Anyhow, check out this new show Necessary Angel is working on that it seems Luminato has gotten behind:

http://www.necessaryangel.com/toutcommeelle

Drop in the bucket, but you know.

Happy Holidays to you too!

When I was in theatre school, we were one of the few classes with far more women than men, and the administration had a hard time knowing what to do with us. We were constantly double-cast, or playing men – but paying the same tuition, mind you. And it’s not incredibly useful to list all of the wonderful male parts you’ve played on your CV when you’re leaving school!

Happy holidays!