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ID E.2342 Client: Author CLOSED FOR MAIN NARRATOR - MORE AUDITIONS WILL FOLLOW FOR THE CHARACTERS
About this production:
- Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/Thriller/Mystery/Myth
- Word count is 237,000 words so estimated 25 to 28 hours of final audio.
- There are 24 main characters needed to be performed by multiple male and female narrators.
- The main storytelling narrator may also perform characters
- Accents - Various
SUMMARY
A seamless blend of thriller, dark satire, magical realism, forbidden LGBTQ romance, and myth, this is the story of a spiritual war that’s been fought for thousands of years; the war between the ancient arts of music, poetry, and love; and the equally ancient forces of artistic envy, oppressive law, and authoritarian religion.
Boston 1992. Pete Morrow is a misanthropic FBI agent whose only escape from the colleagues and society he despises is through reading literary classics. When his boss sends him to warn away a drug dealer on an obscure army base, he discovers a murder and becomes obsessed with Jade McClellan, a mysterious man whose rock band just performed at the crime scene. Tough-guy Morrow has never been in love before—but Jade is almost magical, an embodiment of myth and literature who creates living fantasies that rapidly become the only thing Morrow values in his otherwise miserable life.
But there’s a problem. Morrow is investigating a mafia family that is investing in Jade’s musical career. Being open about their relationship could get both of them killed.
Morrow’s murder investigation annihilates his hard-boiled understanding of reality when he learns that Jade is an abandoned, mortal son of Dionysus, the god whose energy informs hard rock. Jade’s mafia support is being arranged by Dirty Penny Starmaker, a witch who started life in 5th century BCE Athens, where she received a divine mandate to promote brilliant musicians throughout history. Penny is in a centuries-old war with Hugh McCrae, a primeval, human-like “monster” who has currently incarnated himself as a congressional aide with an unhealthy interest Morrow’s work. McCrae (rhymes with “decay”) carries his own divine mandate to promote cultural decline by eradicating creativity and art. At the present time, this includes Jade, his music, and Morrow’s newfound happiness.
After all, the universe must balance, no matter who gets destroyed in the process.
NOTE: THIS AUDITION IS FOR THE MAIN NARRATOR ONLY.
MORE AUDITIONS WILL FOLLOW IN THE COMING DAYS FOR CHARACTERS.
Male, early 30s. American.
About the character: Lives in central Massachusetts, works in Boston. Pete’s a misanthropic, cynical FBI agent who hates law enforcement, and really hates the idiots he’s forced to work with at the Boston field office. He’s only there because he once wrote a parody essay on a government application as a joke and got hired because his joke essay somehow made an impression. He’s seen too much investigating violent nutcase type murders, and he escapes through reading literary classics.- he’s hardboiled with an occasional poetic edge. He loves the beauty of art, and he despises the ugliness of the real world – particularly politics. So he’s a tough guy with an inner sensitivity that’s been crushed by the realities of corrupt government and inept colleagues.
Instructions:
Please record your great performance, send in raw wav files. Recordings should be edited out of mistakes and repeats but nothing more. No EQ, No Compression, No Saturation, No Limiting or Normalizing. All that along with detailed edits for breath control, lip/mouth sounds, mixing, mastering will be done in our studi
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