Tanghalang Pilipino holds auditions for Stanley Kowalski actor in Flores

MANILA, Philippines – Tanghalang Pilipino

is looking for an actor to play the role of Stanley Kowalski, opposite Irma Adlawan-Marasigan’s Blanche Dubois, for the staging of

Flores Para Los Muertos

, Orlando Nadres’ translation of Tennessee William’s

A Streetcar Named Desire

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Auditions will be held on April 26 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Bulwagang Amado Hernandez, Tanghalang Pambansa, CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City.

Stanley Kowalski was made famous by Marlon Brando in the film version of Streetcar, and was locally played by Philip Salvador, under the direction of the late Lino Brocka.

Applicants must be available for the production schedule, with rehearsals running for six weeks prior to the opening on Oct. 2, and weekend performances at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) for the whole of October.

To be directed by Floy Quintos, Flores Para Los Muertos is the third play in TP’s 23rd Theater Season billed as Women of Substance. Perhaps American playwright Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece, the play’s recurring theme is the constant and often dangerous conflict between reality and fantasy, actual and ideal. Blanche Dubois, the main character says, “I don’t want realism; I want magic.” Blanche’s deception of others and herself is not from malicious intent but rather from a heart and spirit broken by adversity and forced to retreat to a kinder, purer time that no longer exists.

For details, call 832-3661 or 832-1125 local 1620/1621.