Antigone X Auditions

• Friday, September 12: 6:30-9 p.m.
• Saturday, September 13: 2-4 p.m.

Note: If you cannot make the available audition times, please email director, Alana Rader ()

CONTENT WARNING:
Please be advised that this production includes depictions or discussions of death by
suicide, death, self-harm, depression, the effects of war, and abuse of power.

PREPARATION NOTES:
Actors are requested to wear clothing and footwear they can move— there might be some
movement during the audition process.

FROM THE DIRECTOR:
Want to join the resistance? Please prepare a 1 minute monologue or be prepared to read
scenes from Antigone X at the auditions. Sides available to peruse early upon request.
Email with any questions.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:
ANTIGONE X: (Female ) Fierce, smart, proud, a bit of a firebrand, not afraid of a fight.
Can be blindly stubborn.
ESME: (Female) Smart like her sister Antigone, but ruled more by reason and love; more
willing to engage via indirect methods than overt attack. Yet she is no pushover.
TIRESIAS: (F or NB) The blind prophet, the soothsayer, the oracle. Tiresias is midway
through her 7-year curse, btw, stuck being a female for 3 1⁄2 more years.
EURYDICE: (Female) The wife of Creon, queen of Thebes, wants to believe that
everyone is fine and everyone is going to make the right choice—but then….
CREON: (Male) Absolutely powerful. A bit of a demagogue, but then that’s OK—
because he always was on the right side, right? Right? He rules because he is supposed to
and the people want him. Or so he thinks.
HAEMON: (M or NB) Son of Creon. More of a romantic than his father; he is more of
an observer of people and capable of seeing the less obvious within them. HERM THE
SENTRYMESSENGER-GUARD: (M or NB) Smart enough to know when he has to kowtow to
authority; capable of playing dumb, playing innocent—to get away with delivering the
news that people don’t want to hear.
ZENO THE AIDE-DE-CAMP: (Male) The one who gets stuck having to deal with all
of Creon’s awful directives, the one who gets put in charge of the worst possible details.
First a yes man, then….
CHORUS MEMBERS: (very interested in people with dance and movement experience
for these roles AND anyone with silks/aerial experience as well) playing numerous
smaller roles, including refugees, soothsayers, wailers, soldiers, a boy. Birds, wild dogs.
Frenzied dancers. They could even be the wind.