Transit of Earth by Arthur C. Clarke (Closed)

Transit of Earth by Arthur C. Clarke (Closed)

Project Overview

Auditions for this part are now closed.  Thanks to everyone who took part.  You can follow its progress or offer to appear in our other productions here http://againstthecrowd.boards.net/


This wa a non paid job for an amateur production.

Transit of Earth by Arthur C. Clarke

Against the Crowd aim to make high quality SF and horror audios. We are embarking on our second project, a performance (rather than just a reading) of Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘Transit of Earth’. It tells the story of a doomed astronaut trapped on the red planet. It’s a challenging piece, both in terms of length and emotional subtlety, with one actor carrying the whole 30 minutes, supported by F/X and our own musical score. The full text can be found here againstthecrowd.boards.net/thread/12/original-arthur-clarke-story.


Audition Notes:

Please perform the excerpt below in 2 different ways. How you approach them is up to you.

Deadline:

Thursday 19th November 2015

Submissions:

Please upload your mp3 files in the highest quality recording you can muster to this page: form.jotformeu.com/53003720127340 and click submit.

Please also join our board at http://againstthecrowd.boards.net/ to introduce yourself and PM Joanne to say you have auditioned.

I can also be contacted at [redacted]

Good luck, and we look forward to hearing your work!

Joanne

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Project Roles: Evans
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Voice Actor
Evans
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This character is an astronaut – a brave, well trained, intelligent and resourceful person - but they are facing certain and imminent death millions of miles from home. The character is talking to themselves, not reading a story, and the performance should sound as natural and convincing as possible.

  • "There are no oceans here on Mars, nor have there been for at least five billion years. But there is life of some kind, down there in the badlands of Chaos II, which we never had time to explore.

    Those moving patches on the orbital photographs. The evidence that whole areas of Mars have been swept clear of craters, by forces other than erosion. The long-chain, optically active carbon molecules picked up by the atmospheric samplers.

    And, of course, the mystery of Viking 6. Even now, no one has been able to make any sense of those last instrument readings, before something large and heavy crushed the probe in the still, cold depths of the Martian night….

    And don’t talk to me about primitive life forms in a place like this! Anything that’s survived here will be so sophisticated that we may look as clumsy as dinosaurs.

    There’s still enough propellant in the ship’s tanks to drive the Mars car clear around the planet. I have three hours of daylight left – plenty of time to get down into the valleys and well out into Chaos. After sunset, I’ll still be able to make good speed with the headlights. It will be romantic, driving at night under the moons of Mars….’’

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