Remembering these special places

“I was at Sutro Baths yesterday and it brought back the otherworldly experience of witnessing your production of Ondine in 2015, of the unlikely synergy you created between the drama and surroundings. The breaking waves and the Old One, the forest and the difficulties of living with one foot in the human world and the other in the oceanic consciousness.”
-Ted Greenwald

Have you visited a We site years later and found yourself replaying the performance in your head? Maybe you discovered one of your favorite parks by attending a We Players show? Or a familiar place took on an entirely new meaning after seeing it transformed?

Keep sharing these memories, we love hearing how our work has affected your experience of a place!

Now entering the cave of shadows…

Sutro!
Who speaks of your faded glory? You’ve just changed garments. You’ve traded your glass and steel for a flouncy full skirt of sea foam and a lush blouse of blossoming ice plant. You’ve traded your human imposed form – oh! the towering structure you once lorded over the rock wall separating you from your ancestor the ocean! – for the natural curves of eroding stone. Now you are in constant concert with the waves, your conversation with the wind yields softer edges, rounded now where once there were right angles. Only your stone footprint remains, and a lagoon of gentle waters. Our imaginations fill the well of that open space, the space you’ve left behind. We dream ourselves another world, a world of sea spirits and robust fairy tale figures. May the image of the lone fisherman plying your placid waters linger in our memories! May this memory ignite a thousand more of the story of Ondine and her Hans, which We Players left invisibly, indelibly, imprinted on the air.

NOW – we move from the vast expanse of Sutro’s sparkling sea towards dark forests where ferocious creatures lurk and mead halls where blazing heroes recount feats of glory.

I wake this morning with a new feeling, a trembling, a quivering, an uncomfortable and yet familiar sensation…
The beginning feeling…

The feeling of standing at the edge of the abyss, horrified at the prospect of stepping directly, purposefully, into the unknowable depths.
Sending one foot and then the other into thin air and thence to discover how falling down the rabbit hole feels this time…

Horrified, and yet certain that I’ll do it.

Though some gears in my physical machinery will resist the plunge, others will overpower the fear, the impulse towards self-protection, and hurdle me forward.
Poised briefly on this thin edge before the plunge…monsters and heroes here we come!

This fall, we will escort you into cave of shadows as we search for the monsters lurking in the closet and under the bed. I hope you’ll join us as we seek the heroes and monsters that live among us.

More from that shadowy cave of dreams soon…

mwah!

Ava

Audition for We 2014

ACTORS

Announcing 2014 Company Generals!

DATES
Saturday January 11 & Sunday January 12, 7-10pm  
(please arrive between 6:30 (no earlier) and 6:50pm, work begins promptly at 7pm)

LOCATION
SF Circus Center: 755 Frederick St., San Francisco

Be sure to familiarize yourself with our artistic practice before responding. Our site-integrated work is very unique and unlike traditional theatre experiences. Projects take place in a wide range of Bay Area settings, usually outdoors and in direct relationship with the elements. Our work is for the hardy of spirit and body, it is intense and immersive.

All auditions with We Players are extended workshop format, which allows us the opportunity to learn something about each other’s work and process. More information about our 2014 projects will be announced to our mailing list early in January.

REQUIRED
Send resume and headshot to we@weplayers.org. Please include a brief personal statement and note why you are interested in working with We Players and/or engaging in site-integrated performance. Prepare a 1-2 minute classical monologue.  Bring a hard copy of your resume and photo. Indicate special skills: physical theater, dance, acrobatics, clown, music/singing/instruments, etc. 

PLEASE NOTE
You may not called for the whole time, however, please budget the full three hours. This audition will be workshop format. Be prepared for both physical and vocal group work. Wear comfortable clothes you can move in.

CALLBACKS for specific 2014 projects will be held Friday-Sunday, January 17-19, 2014

* We Players produce primarily classical work, so some experience or significant interest in Shakespeare and/or Greek mythology is a plus.

DANCERS

Information specific to dancers/ movers will be shared at the audition. Basic schedule outline for rehearsal and performance extends from mid-July 2014 through September 2014. 

AUDITION DATES
Saturday, January 25, 1-4pm
*call backs will be Sunday, January 26, 1:30-4:30pm – details will be provided to those selected

LOCATION
Sutro Baths, SF.  Meet on the east side of the new Land’s End Visitors Center and look for a red We Players flag.

REQUIRED
Send resume and headshot to we@weplayers.org. Please include a brief personal statement and note why you are interested in working with We Players and/or engaging in site-integrated performance. Indicate any special skills: physical theater, types of dance training, swimming, yoga, qi gong, naturalist training, acrobatics, clown, music/singing/instruments, etc.

PLEASE NOTE
You may not called for the whole time, however, please plan to attend the full three hours. Please also hold your schedule open for Sunday, 1/26, 1:30-4:30pm. This movement audition will be workshop format. Wear comfortable clothes and close-toed shoes in which you can move freely. Please dress for the weather! We recommend layers, hats, gloves and windbreakers.