Upcoming Auditions

Beyond Therapy

by Christopher durang

Directed by karen keith

Presented by special arrangement with samuel french

Auditions will be in March: Sunday the 10th (5:00P-6:30P), Monday the 11th (6:30P-8:00P), and Tuesday the 12th (6:30P-8:00P).

Rehearsals will begin the week of March 18th.

Production Dates: April 26th (Fri), 27th (Sat), 28th (Sun); and May 2nd (Thur), 3rd (Fri), and 4th (Sat).

Audition Instructions:
Auditions will be readings from the script. No prior experience required. Roles for men and women of various ages. Please come during the audition times, fill out a brief form with your information and the director will then give you details on how their auditions will run. Arrive early to give yourself and the director plenty of time for your audition.

Characters:

Prudence - 30’s. Single, writer for People magazine, looking for love.

Bruce - 30’s. Divorced, lawyer, looking for love.

Charlotte - 40’s-50’s. Married, warm, life-affirming, therapist for Bruce.

Stuart - 40’s-50’s Single, macho, bully, egotistical, therapist for Prudence.

Bob - 30’s. Single, Bruce’s male lover.

Andrew - 20’s. Waiter, cute, polite, quirky.

Synopsis: Bruce and Prudence are looking for love in 1983 New York City. They are both in therapy with Prudence’s macho, therapist urging her to answer ads from the newspaper, while Bruce’s wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing ads. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover, Bob. Bob is not pleased that Bruce is dating women. Bruce doesn’t know how to handle poor, nervous Prudence and she doesn’t know what to make of her unpredictable boyfriend. They both learn to live beyond therapy in this funny, outrageous, adult show.

Divorce, Southern Style

by jeniffer jarrett

Directed by ronald king

Presented by special arrangement with

Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New york

Auditions will be in April: Sunday the 7th (2:30P-5:30P), Monday the 8th (5:30P-7:30P), and Tuesday the 9th (5:30P-7:30P).

Rehearsals will begin the same week as auditions.

Production Dates: June 7th (Fri), 8th (Sat), 9th (Sun), 13th (Thur), 14th (Fri), and 15th (Sat).

Eleanor Bander - Strong-willed and struggling to deal with a mid-life crisis. A sense of humor, heightened sense of drama, and spontaneous. Actress needs to have strong, good comedic timing.

Elma Blue - Novelist. Very tongue-in-cheek with a wonderful sense of humor. Sarcastic, level-headed with a bit of the flair for the dramatic.

Dr. Fred Abernathy - Optometrist. Bland, self-conscious, and possibly a little on the stalker side. Married, but seems to be okay with admiring other women.

Elizabeth - Eleanor's daughter. Sharp, sensible, and somewhat stressed as her wedding date nears. Inherited stubbornness from her mother, and is shy of marriage, probably because her parents divorced.

Walter Bander - Successful businessman. Smart, loves his daughter, can be swayed by emotion, but not often. Can be as stubborn as his ex-wife, Eleanor.

Vince Sigmon - Elizabeth's fiancée. High School biology teacher. A genuinely good guy who has reached his limit of patience.

Gretchen Hiller - Rather dim, curious, and gossipy.

Synopsis: An established favorite with stock theatres, this fast-paced, wildly funny farce centers on the zany schemes of a middle-aged divorcee who decides that the time is ripe to get back together with her ex-husband. Divorced for fifteen years, and running low on cash, Eleanor Bander decides reconciliation with her ex-husband (whose second wife died the year before) is her best hope. To lure him within striking range, she tells him that their daughter is about to be married—hinting that it is a forced situation—when the truth is that the daughter is merely engaged again (for the fifth time) to her long-standing fiancé. The ex-husband, Walter, not only arrives but brings along his current flame, a former classmate who was Eleanor's competition from high-school days. As the plot thickens, which it does with growing hilarity, Eleanor's friends and neighbors become involved in the action, culminating in a sur-prise birthday party where the truth, at last, comes out. But Walter is pre-pared to forgive and forget, and falls easily into Eleanor's trap. So easily, in fact, that Eleanor is the one who now has second thoughts—deciding that it is better, after all, to stay single and broke than to resume the bickering that drove her away from Walter in the first place.

-dramatists.com