PORTUGAL: actors (m/f) 25-55, English spkrs, for theatre in Lisbon [P]
project title: NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre
production type: theatre
pay: paid
looking for: actors
based in/around: Lisbon, Portugal
about the project
JÁ International Theatre invites keen thespians willing to flex their existential muscles on stage to try out for a barbed wire English Language adaptation of Jean-Paul Sarte’s NO EXIT
Showtimes: Feb 1- Feb 13, Museum of Natural History and Science., Lisbon, Portugal
Payment: Profit-sharing
Synopsis: 3 people with chequered pasts, a man and two women, find themselves in an exitless room where they are forced to confront the many ghosts of their past as they go through the motions of playing the oldest game in town- seduction – The winner gets damnation and the loser – well there are no losers in a never-ending game!
playing age: 25 - 35
role languages: English
Seduction is both a weapon and a survival strategy for her. Solitude, her nemesis. Gullible and sly, waifishly naive and clinically focused, a sweet concoction of dangerous opposites.
playing age: 30 - 40
role languages: English
Love and its scarlet streaked longings have always come at a forbiddingly high price for her as compelling passion has run into cold lifeless endings in her story- wary, guileful and hides her aching vulnerability in her sweeping breathless prima donna presence.
playing age: 35 - 55
role languages: English
Faded charm and left over insouciance from a reckless youth, his ghosts howl right under the skin- they are the only friends he has left and he keeps his friends close.