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<DIV> A<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">uditions for SCP’s
fourth show of the season, Harold Pinter’s </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">Betrayal</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">, will be held on
Tuesday, January 17 and Thursday, January 19 starting at 7:00 PM at the
Playhouse, 12 S. Church Street, Schenectady, NY 12305.</SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-pagination: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Betrayal </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">is the story of a
married couple, Emma and Robert, and Robert’s best friend Jerry.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jerry was the best man at the wedding,
lunched and played squash with Robert, and was a close business associate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The play chronicles the lives of these
people during a 9-year period when Emma and Jerry had an illicit affair.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, true to Pinter’s style, there
is a twist – he tells the story backwards, starting with a meeting two years
after the affair ended and finally, in the last scene, revealing how the affair
began.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-pagination: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The play often leaves
you with more questions than answers. Not until the final curtain do you have
all the pieces of the story and can begin to put them together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The audience leaves asking more
questions, and making their own judgments and opinions of the events they have
just witnessed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The underlying
themes of trust, love, lust, envy, and revenge all are explored in an economy of
words and abundance of silence.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-pagination: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The trademark of Mr.
Pinter’s lifelong work is the “Pinter pause”.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mr. Pinter uses silence as frequently as
words to mark an event or revelation within a scene or a character.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Actors must be comfortable with being
silent, letting the pauses take the place of words.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At the audition, a brief instruction
into the use of the Pinter pause will be conducted at the start of the audition
with the expectation that persons auditioning will be able to demonstrate the
proper use of the convention.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-pagination: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Since the characters
are British, please be prepared to use an accent during audition, but do not let
the lack of one discourage you from auditioning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If needed, modifications can be made for
persons of interest to the casting committee.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Roles available
are:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-pagination: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">Emma</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>40’s. Slightly younger than the men.
Confident and shrewd in the sense that she knows how to manipulate a situation
to her advantage.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Throughout the
play, she demonstrates that trust is a virtue only when it is to her
advantage.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-pagination: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">Robert</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>40’s.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His life is perfectly in order:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>a wife, children and successful
career.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His best friend views him
as the cuckold husband, however, Robert makes it known, in a painfully frank
way, that he is in control of the situation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="mso-pagination: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">Jerry</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>40’s.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jerry lives for the excitement of the
moment – the afternoon trysts, stolen kisses, as long as they don’t interfere
with his own family life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jerry is
used as a pawn between Emma and Robert, without him being aware of the
situation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN">Production dates are </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN">March 17-19 and
22-26, 2006.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Please
contact Tom Heckert at 877 – 6777 with any questions.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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