Audition information for The Food Monologues

Auditions for ISU Theatre’s The Food Monologues

By Kerri Kochanski

Director – Lena Frank

The Food Monologues description:

The Food Monologues explores women’s love/hate relationships and obsessions with food and body image. Themes include: dieting, eating disorders, disordered eating, weight loss/gain, body shame, and societal expectations and perceptions about women and beauty. The play features an actual food binge (and other eating processes), and includes audience interaction and participation. This play contains monologues interwoven with ensemble driven scenes.

Audition Details:

January 14, 6:00 – 10:00pm in Sloss House

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Callbacks (if necessary) will be January 15

What to Prepare?:

The most important thing is your schedule to fill out the rehearsal form. The auditions will include group movement work, cold readings of monologues from the play, and a prepared question. Your answer can be as personal or simple as you wish and you will only need to answer one. Possible questions are:

• What is your favorite food? Why?
• What is your favorite dessert? How often do you eat dessert?
• Would you consider yourself to be overweight?
• Have you ever tried to lose weight? If so, what is the most extreme thing you have ever done to try to lose weight?
• Have you ever made fun of someone for being overweight?
• Are you happy with your body size?
• Whom do you consider to have an ideal body?
• How do you feel about healthy foods like salads and vegetables?
• Do you feel the need to be thin? If so, why?

Production Details:
Rehearsals begin around January 16 and will generally be 5 evenings per week (Sunday-Thursday), 6:00 – 10:00 pm. Not everyone will be called at the every day or at the same time.

Tech week begins February 16, 2020. Performances are in the Gallery room in the MU February 21, 22, 23 and 25, 2020.

Roles Available:

Questions:

Please contact isutheatre@iastate.edu or lefrank@iastate.edu