WESTERN RESERVE PLAYHOUSE IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE AUDITIONS FOR…
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
By: Edmond Rostand
Adapted and Directed by: August Scarpelli
Audition Dates:
Thursday December 8th from 630pm -10pm
Saturday December 10th from 2pm -6pm
Callbacks: By appointment, Sunday December 11th from approx. 11am -4pm
Performances: 02/03/23- 02/18/23
Rehearsals will begin ASAP based upon cast availability
What to prepare:
Please prepare a short speech in verse. Not exceeding 2 minutes. Whether it be Shakespearean, another classical dramatis, or a Bukowski poem, all verse is welcome. You may be asked to read sides from the script. Please bring all known conflicts to auditions.
We recognize that auditions are rapidly approaching this publication. If you do not feel like you have adequate time to prepare a verse speech on your own please contact the director by email at august@thewrp.org. with a headshot and resume to receive a side to prepare.
You may sign up here https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4FACAA28A7F8C61-cyrano
for a 15-minute audition slot. Please bring a headshot and resume.
No equity contracts available at this time.
These roles are opened to all ethnicities and all gender identification.
Roles available:
Cyrano (Mid 20s+)- A poet, swordsman, scientist, playwright, musician, and member of the Cadets of Gascoyne, a company of guards from Southern France. For all his prodigious talents, Cyrano is “unattractive”, cursed with a ridiculously long nose that makes him insecure and keeps him from revealing his love for Roxane.
Roxane (20s+) – A beautiful and intellectual heiress. She has a soft spot for romance and a love for poetry and wit.
Christian (20s+) – A handsome but simple young nobleman who lacks wit and intelligence. New to Paris and to the cadets, he falls in love with Roxane and joins Cyrano’s company of cadets early in the play. His good looks are matched only by Roxane’s.
Ragueneau (30s+) – Cyrano’s friend, a pastry chef with a deep love for poetry. Ragueneau gives away pastries in return for poems, and, therefore, innumerable poets visit him frequently. He reflects the theme that poetry is food for the soul, and underlines the division between the physical and spiritual aspects of the world. After his business fails, he becomes Roxane’s porter.
De Guiche (40s+) – A powerful, married nobleman in love with Roxane and not fond of Cyrano. Deceitful and always angry, he attempts several times to have Cyrano killed, once by a hundred men.
Le Bret (20s+) – Cyrano’s friend and closest confidant. He is a fellow soldier and guardsman. Le Bret worries that Cyrano’s principles will ruin his career, but Cyrano ignores Le Bret’s concerns.
Carbon (30s+) – Cyrano’s friend and the captain of his company. He is a strong-willed and successful leader.
Ligniere (20s+) – Christian’s friend, a satirist and drunkard with many powerful enemies. Cyrano protects him from the hundred men hired by de Guiche to ambush him.
Valvert (20s+) – An insolent young nobleman lauded by de Guiche as a possible husband for Roxane, a scheme that would give de Guiche access to Roxane. After he insults Cyrano’s nose, he is defeated in an ensuing duel.
Lise (30s+)- Rageneau’s Wife
Duenna (30s+) – Roxane’s companion and chaperone,who tries to keep Roxane out of trouble. She is a character reminiscent of Juliet’s nurse in Romeo and Juliet.
Montfleury (30s+) – A fat, untalented actor whom Cyrano bans from the stage.
Other :Bellerose, Joudelet, Cuigy, Mother Marguerie, Sister Marthe, Sister Claire, Cadets, Marquis’, a meddler, a Musketeer, a Spanish Officer, a Cavalier, a Porter, a Citizen, his son, a Cut-Purse, a spectator, Pastry-cooks, Pages, Poets, Musicians, a Sentry, The flower girl, The orange girl, ETC…
Most actors (other than those cast as Cyrano, Roxane, Christain, and De Guiche) may be asked to play many roles.
** If you have any questions, or would like to audition but are unavailable at the prescribed times, please do not hesitate to contact the director at august@thewrp.org.
- Video submissions are also accepted, they are due by Sunday 12/11@ 4pm. Contact the Director, August Scarpelli @ august@thewrp.org ahead of time for instructions.
