AUDITIONS for COLD by Lars Noren

AUDITIONS

Cold by Lars Norén

Cold, written by renowned Swedish playwright Lars Norén, is a frighteningly realistic and shocking account of racially motivated violence. This play, based on murders and assaults driven by racial discrimination across Sweden, is a study of the intricate yet extreme nature of intolerance that exists between human beings. It begins with something innocent, innocuous and of seemingly no consequence, yet before they know it, four young men find themselves facing off over a divide of race, culture and the right to live.

The production will be directed by Shiereen Anne Magsalin of the newly created theatre company, The Earthcrosser Company. Theatre academic and practitioner, Dr Jacqueline Martin, has been brought on board to translate the play from Swedish to English for the first time, making this particular production of Cold a first within Australia and the English-speaking world.

WE ARE CASTING FOR:

• 2 Males, Caucasian (18 – 30 years)

• 1 Male, Asian (18 – 30 years)

• 1 Male, Middle-Eastern (18 – 30 years)

Auditions will take place on SUNDAY, MAY 16

Rehearsals will be scheduled throughout June/July culminating in a performance season in August.

For queries, more information and to register your interest please contact thearthcrossercompany@gmail.com

ABOUT THE PLAY:

Two young men are celebrating their high school graduation in the afternoon sun by a lake together. They are joined by a third man who was expelled from school a few years earlier. Drunk, contemptuous and bitter, the world is a detestable trap for these three and their surroundings. A fourth young man of a foreign background and a well-to-do adopted family, wanders past and by doing so, unwittingly begins to challenge their way of life. His self-security and strong belief in democracy at work ignites the very core of their beliefs, setting aggression and hatred a-flame. Leaning on a backbone of the patriarchal working class and the ideals of a conservative Sweden, what begins as a challenge of beliefs and principals moves from theory to flesh and beyond. In a few short hours, the group's neo-Nazi behaviours and attitudes manifest, and all four boys are subsequently caught up in a rapidly spinning spiral of violence with terrible and fateful outcomes.

The play deeply examines intolerance and discrimination, and questions how human beings over time have created social structures in which racial or cultural background, religious beliefs, sexual preference and social class serve as, what some people will believe to be, legitimate reasons for harming, hating, and potentially, extinguishing the life of another.