Caroline Williams directs invasive Nina auditions in The Seagull production
Caroline Williams directed a production of Chekhov's The Seagull featuring live-feed camera auditions for the role of Nina at an unspecified venue.
Audition process becomes invasive
Actors Maya Bartley O'Dea, Nina Bowers, Samantha Begeman and Gemma Barnett took turns auditioning under director Goran. The requests from the director escalated from small questions to commands that demanded personal trauma stories. Women in the room followed unspoken rules to please the director despite the discomforting nature of the production.
Production features live cameras
The show utilized live-feed cameras to broadcast the audition process directly to an audience. Writer Tim played a timid bystander reading lines for the character Konstantin while the play shifted between focus and reality. The co-directors Deborah Pearson and Caroline Williams guided the scale and beauty of the growing production.
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