SLIDESHOW Actor William Thomas Hodgson with Zorro at auditions for Agatha Christie’s canine, Peter, in TheatreWorks’ “Mrs. Christie.” Courtesy Reed Flores/TheatreWorks.
SLIDESHOW Cinnamon Girl poses throughout auditions for Agatha Christie’s canine, Peter, in TheatreWorks’ “Mrs. Christie” Courtesy Reed Flores/TheatreWorks.
SLIDESHOW Actor Jennifer Le Blanc, who stars as Agatha Christie, will get to know Anubis in auditions to play Agatha Christie’s canine, Peter, in “Mrs. Christie.” Courtesy Reed Flores/TheatreWorks.
SLIDESHOW Duke dressed up for auditions. Courtesy Reed Flores/TheatreWorks.
SLIDESHOW Murphy auditions with actor Nicole Javier. Courtesy Reed Flores/TheatreWorks.
SLIDESHOW Pike attends auditions to play Agatha Christie’s pooch.
Courtesy Reed Flores/TheatreWorks.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is at present contemplating canine candidates for the position of thriller writer Agatha Christie’s beloved pooch Peter in its West Coast Premiere of Heidi Armbruster’s “Mrs. Christie,” operating Oct. 4-29 on the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
According to a press launch from the theater firm, director Giovanna Sardelli is in search of “a well-behaved, well-trained dog” to painting Peter (in actual life a wirehaired terrier) in two scenes within the manufacturing, which chronicles a modern-day Christie fan’s try to determine the reality behind Christie’s unexplained 11-day disappearance in 1926.
“Although charisma and energy are great traits for our future doggo cast member, we also need a cast member who knows how to bottle their energy and stay on script during the show – even when the audience inevitably lets out a collection of ‘awws’ at their presence,” TheatreWorks Associate Producer of Casting and Literary Management Jeffrey Lo instructed this publication in an e mail interview. This is Lo’s first time working with a canine performer. According to him, the final two TheatreWorks productions involving a canine have been “Of Mice and Men” in 2012 and 2011’s “A Christmas Memory.”
While the corporate held auditions this week, locals nonetheless desirous about submitting their dogs for consideration are invited to ship pictures, data on any earlier expertise, and a be aware about why they suppose their pup is the appropriate alternative for the job to Lo at [email protected] by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 27.
Narrowing down the sector is little doubt a troublesome, albeit awfully cute, job.
