Winter Play Auditions info

Auditions are coming up for the Winter Play on Wednesday, Oct. 29, or Thursday, Oct. 30.  There will be cold reading from the scripts, so prepare by being familiar with the 2 scripts.  You can read them by clicking the links below.  The show is called Identity Crisis, and is made up of two hilarious one-act plays by Christopher Durang:  'Dentity Crisis and The Actor's Nightmare.  The play itself will be performed on Jan. 16 & 17th.  Rehearsals will begin in mid November. The rehearsal schedule will NOT conflict with speech team, Comedy Sportz, V- show  (except singer-dancers), or Chamber Singers. Each one act will only rehearse 3 or 4 days a week, and there will be one evening rehearsal as well, helping people who may have an after school commitment.  The show is directed by Mr. Knight--please see him if you have any questions.

Especially need:  a male who can perform several different character, including a French accent
Actors who can perform short scenes from Hamlet as well as Private Lives (British accent a plus)!

click for audition scenes and monologues

click to read 'dentity Crisis

THE STORY: Recovering from a nervous breakdown, Jane is nursed and nagged by her relentlessly cheerful mother, and confused by her oversexed brother—who keeps changing into her father, her grandfather and her mother's French lover. Eventually all (including Jane's psychiatrist, who undergoes a sex change operation and swaps places with his wife) change characters again and become Jane herself—leaving her with no identity at all and pointing up the near impossibility of self-identification in our uncertain times.

click to read The Actor's Nightmare

THE STORY: Having casually wandered onstage, George is informed that one of the actors, Eddie, has been in an auto accident and he must replace him immediately. Apparently no one is sure of what play is being performed but George (costumed as Hamlet) seems to find himself in the middle of a scene from Private Lives, surrounded by such luminaries as Sarah Siddons, Dame Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. As he fumbles through one missed cue after another the other actors shift to Hamlet, then a play by Samuel Beckett, and then a climactic scene from what might well be A Man for All Seasons—by which time the disconcerted George has lost all sense of contact with his fellow performers. Yet, in the closing moments of the play, he rises to the occasion and finally says the right lines, whereupon make-believe suddenly gives way to reality as the executioner's axe (meant for Sir Thomas Moore) instead sends poor George to oblivion—denying him a well-earned curtain call