Contact:
Name: John Horan
Phone Number: 087-6658669
Email: johnhoran33@hotmail.com

Director: Yvonne Coughlan. Distribution global film festivals.

Rehearsal evening 1st July. Shoot 2nd to 4th July (times dependant on role) 8am-midnight. Advance Schedule available at audition.

Male and Female roles, playing age 20-55. Experience not essential for supporting roles. Martial arts experience an asset to leads. Unpaid work.

Open Auditions
When: Mon. 28th June 4-10pm
Where: SOHO, 77 Grand Parade, Cork (city center)

CV and headshot to rsvpireland@gmail.com
Bookings: Leonard Leader, Producer, 087-7945145

Advanced Drama Improvisation Workshop Weekend with Marcus Bale

When: Saturday, 12 June & Sunday, 13 June 2010
Where: Kinsale School of Pottery, Kinsale, Co. Cork
Fee: €80 for the weekend

Details about the workshop:
This workshop is aimed at actors, aspiring actors and people seriously interested in Improvisation. During this two-day workshop, we will deal with three elements:

A – Advanced Improvised scene composition:
How to make a scene interesting? What’s the arc of a story? Storytelling skills will be developed.

B – Improvised Character development using different techniques.
Looking at physical, verbal & psychological aspects.

C – Finally, the diferents types of Improvisation: – The mechanics of Improvised comedy will be studied.
What makes a scene funny? – Improvisation of tragic scenes – Silent Improvisation. – Short Form and Long Form Improvisation

During the workshops we will be working in groups and also there will be some work done on Improv Solos and Monologues.

About the facilitator
Marcus Bale trained in Buenos Aires for seven years in different Actors Studios. He also studied Improvisation, Clown, Circus, Mime, Physical, Mask and Anthropological Theatre. In Ireland he performed and directed a multitude of plays. Since 2002 he has been giving workshops on Improvisation, Clowning, Commedia dell’ Arte, & the Techniques of Jerzi Grotowski, Eugenio Barba & Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, always emphasising the physical aspect of theatre. He has taught in Ireland, Germany, Italy, Canada & Argentina. In 2001 he co-founded BYOB Productions. The same year he co-founded Cyclone Comedy Improv Troupe. In 2002 he was co-founder of the Snatch Comedy Improv Troupe with whom he performs all over Ireland. In 2003 he became Teacher for the Gaiety School of Acting in Cork teaching adults, children & teenagers. He also teaches “The Spirit of Sign”, Cork Deaf Community Drama group & is also guest teacher at the Theatre Courses in Kinsale College of Further Education & KCAT Drama Course in Callan, Kilkenny.

Details:
When: Saturday 12th & Sunday13th, June, 2010
What time: 10am to 5pm (bring your own lunch)
Where: Kinsale School of Pottery, Kinsale
How Much: 80€
Bookings: Simply send your €50 deposit through Paypal by going to the following website: http://www.kinsaleceramics.com/Payments.html Other forms of payment available on demand.

This year sees the return of the feisty performing arts students along with a few new faces.

Looking for: Micheál – 25yrs old, loves the ladies, booze and banter and has the looks to get the ladies!

IRISH LANGUAGE AN ESSENTIAL FOR THIS ROLE. AUDTIONS HELD IN BELFAST MAY 2010.
SHOOTING IN BELFAST SUMMER 2010.
Please forward CVS & HEADSHOTS to polpenrose@gmail.com More roles for casting will be confirmed as soon as possible.

More contact details:
Name: Pol Penrose
Phone Number: 02890 333848
Email: polpenrose@gmail.com
Website: http://www.stirlingtelevision.co.uk

The parts are:

• Johnny – About 30. A sensitive and fragile bank worker who’s retreating more and more into his own world.
• Stephen – About 30. A charming, slightly weary and no-nonsense farmer’s son from Sligo; up in Dublin for a break from the farm.

The piece is written by Mark Ward and directed by Shane Carr. Auditions will be held in Room 2 in the Gaiety School of Acting on Monday 29th March from 6pm.

Please contact Mark on 086 3417892 to make an appointment. Alternatively, you can email markw999@gmail.com, although contact via telephone is preferred. Actors are asked to prepare a monologue and to bring along a cv and a headshot to the audition.

Probable Parent is a comedy surrounding a single woman hitting her forties who sets about a journey to find a potential suitor.

We are currently looking to cast characters in these particular age groups:
Female Characters between the ages 30 – 45 & 15 – 23
Male Characters between the ages 10 – 16
Male Characters with a foreign accent (authentic) between the ages of 20 & 45

Applicants should be available to work on specific days during the second two weeks in May. Remember there is no experience necessary; we hope to find some undiscovered talent out there!
If you are interested in finding out more about the production please call the number below. Alternatively just come along to one of our Open Castings:

Monday 15th March CORK
Cork School of Music, Union Quay
LECTURE ROOM G15 4pm- 10pm

Tuesday 16th March LIMERICK
Mary Immaculate College Rm G28 5pm- 10pm

Thursday 18th March GALWAY
The Space: Aras na Mac Leinn NUI Galway 4pm- 10pm

Friday 19th March TULLAMORE
Methodist Hall, Church St, 4pm- 10pm

Saturday 20th March KILKENNY
TBC: Please contact 01 4975980

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL ALSO BE CASTINGS IN DUBLIN. DATES WILL BE CONFIRMED SHORTLY

For further information call Sheena on 01 / 4975980 or email: sheena@venom.ie

Male 25 – 40
Female 30 -50
Female 18-30
Male 20-50

Auditions 6pm Friday 5th March 2010.

Phone Martin 087 621 2426 or Moira on 087 621 4532 or email Moira at moira.obrien@gmail.com

Details:

• Starts:  Saturday, 20 March 2010 at 10:00
• Ends:  Sunday, 21 March 2010 at 16:00
• Times:  10am-5pm each day
• Fee:  This course is offered at €120 for two days. Bring a packed lunch
• or take a sandwich break in Kinsale.
• Location:  Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre, Ballinacurra, Kinsale, Co Cork

Throughout this workshop you will learn about your comedic potential. We will explore it and develop it.

We will regain the pleasure of ‘Play’ with yourself and others.

Finding your clown will help you hugely to increase self-confidence and the use of your body language. For actors and non-actors, you can guarantee you will discover a lot about yourself. The level of the workshop will be set according to the participants experience.

Based on tecniques coming from Jacques LeCoq, Phillip Gaullier, and other teachers of Clowning, together with basic exercises from Commedia dell’Arte and Improvisation, we will attempt to understand the underlying principles of clowning:

• Do not act, just react
• A Clown is only a clown with an audience
• A Clown occurs in the audience’s mind
• Find the pleasure in everything
• Find the Game in everything
• Take your audience in the Journey

More information available on request.

About the facilitator:
Marcus Bale trained in Buenos Aires for seven years in different Actors Studios. He also studied Improvisation, Clown, Circus, Mime, Physical, Mask and Anthropological Theatre. In Ireland he performed and directed a multitude of plays. Since 2002 he has been giving workshops on Improvisation, Clowning, Commedia dell’ Arte, & the Techniques of Jerzi Grotowski, Eugenio Barba & Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, always emphasising the physical aspect of theatre.

He has taught in Ireland, Germany, Italy, Canada & Argentina. In 2001 he co-founded BYOB Productions. The same year he co-founded Cyclone Comedy Improv Troupe. In 2002 he was co-founder of the Snatch Comedy Improv Troupe with whom he performs all over Ireland. In 2003 he became Teacher for the Gaiety School of Acting in Cork teaching adults, children & teenagers. He also teaches “The Spirit of Sign”, Cork Deaf Community Drama group & is also guest teacher at the Theatre Courses in Kinsale College of Further Education & KCAT Drama Course in
Callan, Kilkenny.

How to book?: Call 0879696901 or email (adrianwistreich@gmail.com)your booking. A €50 deposit will be required at least 7 days before the course dates. It is also possible to pay the deposit (or the totality of the course) online via PayPal. In order to do this, please go to: http://www.kinsaleceramics.com/Payments.html

More information: If you want more information or if you have any queries, you can contact me:

Email: marcusbale@gmail.com
Phone: 0863173543

Auditions to be held in March/April 2010.

For further information please see our website www.fringebenefitstheatrecompany.com

Fringe Benefits provides professional level training and development opportunities in acting and other aspects of theatre practice. We are a collective group and self-funding. Training workshops run for most of the year every saturday from 1-6pm. Additional time for rehearsal and participation in production teams is also required from members when a production is in planning and preparation.

The theatre collective is the largest, and only ensemble theatre company in Northern Ireland, and has amateur, semi-professional and some professional members. Please contact cathy@fringebenefitstheatrecompany.com

Name: Fringe Benefits Theatre Company
Phone Number: 0044 7711643995
Email: cathy@fringebenefitstheatrecompany.com
Website: http://www.fringebenefitstheatrecompany.com