Playing French Seattle/Steeplechase Productions

Audition Notice

Steeplechase Productions/Playing French Seattle

Monday, August 4

4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Ethnic Cultural Theatre

3940 Brooklyn Ave.  NE

Seattle, 98105

 Steeplechase Productions, together with Playing French Seattle (a registered student organization of the University of Washington) is auditioning for the 2008 festival of plays performed in French language.  The festival will be held from October 20 to November 2 at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre in North Seattle.  This year the focus is on plays by Benin born playwright José Pliya, who will attend the closing weekend.  Three plays will be produced:

• “Les Effracteurs” (bouffonnerie criminelle) – Three men, one woman.  A surrealistic spoof on crime, love, territory.  US premiere. This play was staged at the Comédie Française in 2004. 
• “Complexe de Thénardier” – Two women.  Pliya won the Prix du Jeune Théâtre de l’Académie française for this play in 2003.  US premiére.
• “Cannibales” (Staged reading) – Three woman.  A child is missing from a baby carriage.  Three woman explore issues of motherhood, loss and perplexity.  US premiere.

 Actor compensation is the Steeplechase “standard stipend” of $75.  (Very limited number of Equity contracts available through a letter of agreement.)  To audition you must have at least 2 years of French study and some stage experience.  Festival will include a public workshop with the playwright and cast. We are also interested in hearing from designers and crew.

 Audition will consist of reading from the above scripts, which will be available on site.  For appointment and additional information contact:  Tom Ansart Libchase@aol.com (206) 935-8261.  Drop-in auditions welcome, subject to time constraints. 

Playing French Seattle is a registered student organization of the University of Washington.  Steeplechase Productions is a nonprofit theatre production company.

Contact Tom Ansart, libchase@aol.com (Steeplechase Productions) or Kris Murray, kom@u.washington.edu (Playing French Seattle) at for additional information.

Playing French Seattle, a registered student organization of the University of Washington, in conjunction with Steeplechase Productions, the University of Washington’s Department of French and Italian Studies and Office of Minority Affairs, the Alliance Française de Seattle, and 4Culture presented a festival of contemporary plays in French language (with English super-titles) in 2007:

drame@u.washington.edu   206.935.8261 or 206.226.4396

Photo by Dara Rosenwasser