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Auditions for "An Inspector Calls"-Chicago, IL
- Casting ID # 1629397
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Project Type
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Live Event
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Submission Type
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Self Response
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Location
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Chicago, IL
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Union
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Non-union
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Rate/Pay
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n/a
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Release Date
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11-10-21
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Audition Date
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04-04-22
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Submission deadline
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04-03-22
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Casting Category
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Theatre - Non-Equity
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The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl's undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike, before the evening is over.
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| Role # 1 Arthur Birling |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
The patriarch of the Birling family. Arthur is a "rather portentous" man "in his fifties" who owns a profitable manufacturing company. His business success allows the Birlings to live in upper-middle-class comfort. Birling believes that capitalist principles of individual willpower and the protection of company profits are good for business and good for society.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 50 to 60
Ethnicity: Any - |
| Role # 2 Sybil Birling |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
The matriarch of the Birling family. Sybil is described in the play's performance notes as "cold." Though she is pleased her daughter Sheila is engaged to be married, she tends to ignore any potential discord in the family. Sybil serves on a charitable committee in the town, and busies herself with social events befitting a woman whose husband is a business success. She protects what she perceives to be the family's good image and standing in the community.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Female
Age: from 50 to 60
Ethnicity: Any - |
| Role # 3 Sheila Birling |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Daughter of Arthur and Sybil. Sheila, "in her early twenties," is engaged to Gerald and believes, at the start of the play, that her future lies bright before her. But knowledge of her role, and the family's role, in Eva/Daisy's death devastates Sheila, who wonders how her family can go on afterward, pretending simply that nothing has happened.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Female
Age: from 20 to 25
Ethnicity: Any - |
| Role # 4 Eric Birling |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Son of Arthur and Sybil, and older brother of Sheila. Eric works part-time at the family business and has a drinking problem that he hides, with some success, from his parents and sister. When it is revealed that Eric had a romantic relationship with a woman, resulting in a child born out of wedlock, the family must confront facts about Eric's life, and about their own, which they had sought previously to ignore.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 25 to 30
Ethnicity: Any - |
| Role # 5 Gerald Croft |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
Fiancé to Sheila, and son of another prominent manufacturing family. Gerald is from a more socially-elevated family, and Arthur worries that Gerald's parents believe he is making a "poor match" in marrying Sheila. Although the Inspector criticizes Gerald's affair with Daisy, the Inspector notes that Gerald is perhaps the least culpable, and most morally upright, of all the characters.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 20 to 21
Ethnicity: Any - |
| Role # 6 Inspector Goole |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
A representative, supposedly, of the local police force, sent to investigate Eva Smith/Daisy Renton's suicide. The Inspector asks all the Birlings, and Gerald, questions about Eva/Daisy. It seems that the Inspector knows the answer to everything he asks, but wants the family to admit to various instances of wrongdoing.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 65
Ethnicity: Any - |
| Role # 7 Edna |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
The Birlings' maid. Edna mostly sets the scenes in which the family eats and talks. She is not, like the Birlings, of the upper-middle class, but instead makes money by virtue of her labor.
Searchable talent specs :
Gender: Female
Age: from 20 to 35
Ethnicity: Any - |
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