The Gate Theater Company

Chiang Mai

7/3/2007

Press Release

The Gate Theater Company of Chiang Mai will hold open auditions for its first play, The Dodo Bird, By Emanuel Fried. The play will be staged at AUA Language School, in Chiang Mai this May and June.

Auditions will he held at AUA Language School, 24 Rajadamnern Road, Muang, Chiang Mai, on March 17th from 4:30pm until 6:30pm., in room number 5.

Performance dates will be Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm from June, 1 through 30.

Technical Rehearsals are May 28 and 29. Dress Rehearsals are May 30 and 31.

To schedule an audition please call 08-71772195. Or write to the Gate Theater at

Needed are 3 men who can play characters age 30 or above. Nationality is unimportant. However, all characters must be fluent English speakers.

Experienced actors should prepare a 2 minute monologue (serious) and be prepared to read from the script. Those without experience will be expected to do a cold reading from the script or another piece of dramatic material which will be supplied at the audition.

The Dodo Bird is that rare combination- a play which is both educational and entertaining.

It is a long one act piece about a long evening in a workingman’s bar. The three chief characters work at the foundry across the street. By the time the bar closes we know more about the foundry and the guys who work there than we ever thought we’d want to know. And it’s fascinating.

“The Dodo Bird is a play that should be on the reading list of every course in introductory sociology, social psychology and the sociology of work. The Dodo Bird is an exciting dramatic play that intensely portrays the real-life interaction of members of the working class- a class whose behavior sociologist, by and large, know only second-hand. The Dodo Bird makes the observer a participant in an important part of working class life.”

Dr. Jeffrey M. Schevitz

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Buffalo College

“It is a surprisingly interesting piece. A kind of brutal, gutsy realism we seldom see today” –The Virginia Pilot

“There is tension here and a highly amusing bit when nice guy outwits brutal guy. There is also some very true language” – New York Post

Even if this is done for no pay, do the players not need a work permit if tickets are being sold?

Even if this is done for no pay, do the players not need a work permit if tickets are being sold?

Contact the theater at thegatetheater (at) asia.com