Spring 2025 Mainstage Auditions
The Liar
by David Ives, after Pierre Corneille's Le Menteur
Directed by Darren Gobert
October 21 and 22, with callbacks on October 23
Sign Up for Auditions and Find Link to Excerpts Here
Monday, October 21
6:30 - 9 p.m.
Tuesday, October 22
6:30 - 9 p.m.
Callbacks will be 6 - 9 p.m. on Wednesday, October 23. They will involve scene work in small groups as well as physical exercises. Please dress to move.
Audition Material
Prepare one of the five monologues available at the audition sign-up link (Alcippe, Cliton, Dorante, Lucrece, Sabine); you may read with the script in hand if you wish. Actors will also be asked to demonstrate their best comic double takes. Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3hbe7WkWMI
Remote Audition Submissions
If you cannot make these times in person, you are welcome to submit videotaped auditions by email to Thomas Quintas thomas.quintas@duke.edu, Director of Theater.
Class Credit Opportunities
Undergraduate students cast in a mainstage production may enroll in THEATRST 350-1 Mainstage: Acting for credit. The course carries ALP, CCI, and R codes. Students can also learn about theater design and technology by working backstage on these productions and enrolling in THEATRST 226S World Building for the Theater. Enrollment in either class is voluntary. In Spring 2025, both classes are scheduled Wednesday evenings 6:30 - 9 p.m. on West Campus in the Bryan Center.