AUDITIONS for Little Tragedies: Mozart and Salieri & The Stone Guest!!!

Michaelmas Week 6 show in the stunning Corpus Chapel is looking for a cast! Do you want to fight on swords and die as a vengeful Spanish grand? Or execute divine justice as a dreadful funerary statue? Or, perhaps, playing Requiem and being poisoned by Salieri speaks to you? In the plays that will appear in the double bill of Pushkin's Little Tragedies, you can find: an eternal conflict of a jealous hard-working craftsman with a careless genius, a life in pursuit of eros that culminates in a well-deserved, yet tragically picturesque death, poison in a glass of wine, and the Stone Guest statue coming alive to take revenge on his murderer. This is Russian drama at its finest, created by a poet under censorship, at the height of his creative glory.

• Sat 10th Oct, 13:00–13:30, Trinity College Frazer Room

MOZART AND SALIERI
Mozart – lighthearted, cheerful genius destined to die at his best friend’s hand. Feels his death approaching as he is in the process of composing the Requiem.
Salieri - The Tragic Composer. Delivers beautiful monologues on his doom and despair, kills Mozart, is terribly dramatic and poetic. A delight to play :)

THE STONE GUEST
Don Juan – Seduces every woman he sees, fights in duels and has a good time in the process. Was banished from Madrid by the King, but returns for an old lover.
Leporello – Don Juan’s servant. Pragmatic, cynical, he is a realistic commentator on his master’s adventures.
Don Carlos – Don Juan killed his brother, and now he is thirsty for blood. Vengeful and full of rage, he mirrors the Commander.
The Statue of the Commander: The Stone Guest himself! The statue of Donna Anna's late husband. A force from the realm of supernatural vengeance for Don Juan’s crimes.
Monk – a resident of the local monastery who is pious indeed, yet cannot help but admit Dona Anna’s charms.
First Guest,
Second Guest,
Third Guest – friends and admirers of Laura at her party.

Mozart:
“...villainy and genius,
As you’ll agree, my friend, sit ill together.”

Salieri:
“You think so?”
(He pours the poison into Mozart’s drink.)

The audition pack is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13m6rA5o4a0gyoFlo0dnZJMyzpa2mxDsdPlozDePI0Ls/edit?usp=sharing

Sign up for the auditions here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JTBDTr9FSx811mgOBnTyqDhA-UENCVqjBOjHg1tR8YI/edit?usp=sharing

Contact zc423@cam.ac.uk before 11th Oct 2026 18:00 for more details.