Audition Announcement – Naughty and Nice: A Christmas Repertory
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues by Jeff Goode
directed by Catherine M. Bertrand
A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
directed by Caroline Watson-Felt
Roles to be filled are as follows:
2 Men, 30+, Both actors will play 2 roles: one in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues and one in A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Roles to be filled in The Eight are “Dasher” and “Donner”. Open roles in A Child’s Christmas in Wales are not yet specified.
2 Women, late 20’s+, One actor will play 2 roles, one in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues and one in A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Open role in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues is “Vixen”. One actor will play 1 role in A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Open role in A Child’s Christmas in Wales is not yet specified. All actors in A Child’s Christmas in Wales will play multiple roles of equal importance.
3 boys, ages 10-14 for A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Performances are alternating nights December 4,5,6 and 11,12,13. Rehearsals will begin immediately. Both performances and rehearsals will take place in Salem.
Auditions will be held by appointment only on Wednesday, November 11 and Thursday, November 12 between 6pm and 9:30. Please email catherinembertrand@gmail.com for an audition time.
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Audition Announcement - Joe Orton’s Loot
Loot, Joe Orton’s 1960s black farce, is a tightly plotted play about two bank robbers—Hal and Dennis—who need to hide their loot. Complicating and aiding this situation is the funeral of Hal’s mother, his grieving father, a nurse with a mysterious past, and a police officer who says he’s from the Water Board.
Audition Format: A short comic monologue if you have one and cold readings from the script. British accents are required.
Audition Times & Location: Auditions will be held on November 18 & 19 at 7:30 PM each evening in the Salem Arts Association Gallery on Artists’ Row in Salem. 24 New Derby Street – Unit One. Please arrive by 7:30.
Characters:
MCLEAVY: Older man—60s—respectable, religious, middle class, smitten by Fay, confused and appalled by his son Hal.
FAY: 30s–40s. A nurse with dead husbands in her past. She appears to be devout and upright but will stop at nothing to get rich.
HAL: 20s. A young man of loose sexuality and even looser morals. He desperately needs to hide his loot. Hall is McLeavy’s son and because of his strong Catholic upbringing, he cannot lie.
DENNIS: 20s. He works at a funeral home but wants more. Another young man with loose morals although he wants to marry Fay.
TRUSCOTT: Middle aged. A police detective trying to find the bank robbers. He is absolutely corrupt and makes up the rules as he goes along.
MEADOWS: Any age. A police officer who does as he’s told.