A tryout for a film or TV role, usually in front of a casting director for which a reading is required. The part of the theatre in which the audience sits. Also known as the House. The Auteur theory insists that a film be considered in terms of the entire canon of a director and that each Auteur earns that title by displaying a unique cinematic style. A courtesy situation extended by an agent to a producer indicating that a performer is available to work a certain job.
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