Auditions
for the 2008 One-Act Season will be held at 2.00pm on Sunday, 22
June 2008 at the Melville Theatre, Cnr Stock Road and Canning Highway,
Palmyra.
The
plays are as follow:
1.
Death's Dilemma
written and directed by Dawn Murray
Deaths Dilemma is about the need to die. Death is frustrated
by modern developments which keep him at bay past the appointed
time. Ben is determined to stay a while longer and his family have
to face the decision to let him go. Sounds morbid? not when Death
and the irascible Ben clash.
Cast required:
Death - urbane 40's (male)
Ben - 60's
Jenny - 40's
Lisa - 20
Doctor - any age, male or female
2.
A Marriage Proposal. A joke in one act by Anton Chekov,
English translation by Theodore Hoffman.
Directed by Jeff Hansen.
Cast required:
Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov - a landowner, stage age 50-70,
pompous but affable.
Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov - healthy, but a hypochondriac;
nervous, suspicious, jumpy. Also a landowner. Stage age35 ish.
Natalia Stepanovna - Chubukov's daughter; stage age 25
(18-35); unmarried.
For further information please contact the director on Ph 0407474557
or Email - jeffhansen@virginbroadband.com.au
3.
The Author’s Voice by Richard Greenberg, directed
by Geoffrey Leeder
Cast
required:
Portia: attractive (late 20’s/early 30’s) publishing
editor
Todd: good looking (same age range) novelist (this character
originally played by Kevin Bacon in the Broadway production)
Gene: no particular age range, described as “a horribly
twisted Gnome”. What is commonly known as a ”character”
role.
For
further information pleas contact the director on (H) 9527 1968
(W) 9527 1588
or email: geoffandlynleeder@bigpond.com
