The time has come to announce our next feature-length play: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The Pennyless Players will return to Kristallwerk in May 2025 to perform this great classic of modern American literature.
But before we can perform it, we need a cast and a crew! This is YOUR opportunity to join The Pennyless Players and participate in a theatre production over the next few months! We are once again holding open castings, looking for actors as well as people who want to work behind the scenes (e.g. making costumes, doing make-up, designing the stage and props, PR, …). Theatre enthusiasts of every background and level of experience are welcome!
Casting dates
November 14, 17:00-20:00
November 15, 17:00-20:00
November 16, 14:00-17:00
November 17, 14:00-17:00
(You don’t have to be there for all three hours, just pay us a visit during one of those timeslots.)
Where?
Das andere Theater Probenhaus
Orpheumgasse 11, 8020 Graz
Note for actors
Final rehearsals and performances will take place in the week from May 19 to May 25, 2025. You will have to be available at least from late afternoon onwards on those days. Rehearsals will start end of November 2024 and take your availabilities into account.
No registration required, just pay us a visit on one of the dates mentioned above. You will be provided with audition material there, no need to prepare anything in advance. For questions, feel free to email us at thepennylessplayers@gmail.com
About the play
What do we work for?
A career. A big house with a front porch. A nice car. The latest TV set.
A happy family. A better life for our children. A legacy to pass on.
Success. Respect. Recognition. Joy. Contentment. Purpose.
All his life, Willy Loman has worked hard to achieve those dreams. Now, after decades as a travelling salesman, he is exhausted to the brink of collapse. Returning home to his wife and adult children, Willy finds himself estranged from a changing world and his family. As past and present, reality and delusion, begin to overlap in Willy’s mind, the Lomans are forced to confront the contradictions and the (self-)deception at the core of their lives. Now each member of this family needs to find a way of helping a man who has never been able to ask for help, while struggling to escape from the expectations he has passed on to them.
Arthur Miller tackles questions of work ethics, family, purpose, and ageing in the way he excels at: By examining society and ideology through their impact on the individual. This makes Death of a Salesman a touching, empathetic character study, as relevant today as when it was first brought to the stage.
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