BATS CYRANO IS REOPENING AUDITIONS FOR LE BRET

In Le Bret, we are looking for a character who both fills the stage with energy, and yet is capable of handling gentle, deeply emotive scenes, as he nurtures Cyrano through a whirlwind romance. Le Bret is comic, commanding, kind, and intensely likeable.

Please send us a self-tape introducing yourself and reading either one or both of following extracts:

LE BRET: Well – talk about rising to the bait –
red rag to the bull – you’ve just displayed
appallingly poor judgement. Why
did you have to fight like that? That man could die.

You can’t exist in this self-contained bubble –
embrace the system – start to engage –
make alliances – don’t just rage.
You have no proper insight
into your actions – pick fight after pointless fight –
insult people – obstruct them – adopt this pose of pride.

AND...

LE BRET: Come on, Cyrano, spare me the self-pity.
Girls get that shit – men don’t need to be pretty.
Plus – like it or not –
seeing men fight gets women hot –

you think when you were fighting your … your …
your poetry duel

she wasn’t up there watching you?
Get real. Roxane’s
a grown-up – she wants a man.

I’d offer guarantees
you figure in any number of her sexual fantasies.
Sure, she’s really really beautiful –
that doesn’t mean put her on a pedestal.
Come on, man. Get in there. Attack.

Contact ed629@cam.ac.uk eshk2@cam.ac.uk ss2964@cam.ac.uk before 21st Oct 2024 01:00 for more details.