Deadline: June 15,
2016
The Playhouse Company is holding auditions for the
production Sugar Daddies, which will
be presented on the Company’s mobile stage at high schools throughout
KwaZulu-Natal from July 18 to August 12 2016. The production is being re-staged
after a very successful run in 2014 when it played to over 20,000 learners.
Sugar Daddies
focuses on the current and prevalent practice of older, often married, men with
financial means having very young girlfriends. These young girls are often
seeking a way to achieve a better lifestyle without realising the consequences
and implications of their actions. The production highlights the irresponsible
behaviour of these ‘sugar daddies’ or ‘blessers’, as they are now often called,
and seeks to help young women to avoid falling victim to these predators.
Three female actresses are required to audition for the
production for the following characters:
Thandeka (16 years old). Thandeka is a teenager who has just
moved to the community to live with her grandmother after her mother has passed
away. She befriends Lesiwe at school and in a short space of time begins a
relationship with a string of “sugar daddies” around the community. She has
very little financial support, and relies on men to pay her school fees,
cellphone bills, and so forth. She has grown up without a father figure. She contracts
HIV from her affair with Simpiwe, but does not know her status when she sleeps
with other men.
Lesiwe Cele (16 years old). Teenaged Lesiwe is heavily
influenced by her rebellious school friend Thandeka. Encouraged by Thandeka,
she enters into a brief relationship with a “sugar daddy” named Simpiwe.
Nosipho Cele (38 years old). Nosipho is the mother of
Lesiwe, and a compassionate and concerned mother and wife.
Anyone interested in auditioning should note the following:
Only female actors between the ages of 20 and 35 may
audition;
All potential candidates need to be experienced in the genre
of drama, and preference will be given to performers with professional
experience;
Candidates need to prepare a monologue of one to two minutes
in length;
Candidates are asked to please bring in a headshot
photograph and their CV to the audition; Candidates need to be able to speak
good English and isiZulu
Candidates need to be available for rehearsals from July 4
to 15, and then for the tour of the production from July 18 to August 12, 2016.
Auditions will take place at The Playhouse in Rehearsal Room
A1 on Tuesday 21 June from 09h00.
To book an audition, contact Khulekani Kunene on 031 369
9440 between 09h00 and 16h00, Monday to Friday. The closing dates for audition
bookings is June 15.
Schools (high schools only) interested in booking a
performance of the production are asked to call Khulekani Kunene on 031 369
9440.
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