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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Delta Xi cast of Alpha Psi Omega, the
National Theater Honor Fraternity at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will hold
auditions for Tennessee William’s <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof </I>on Tuesday, June 26 and Wednesday, June 27 at 7:00 pm in
Mother’s Emporium, lower level of the RPI Union, 15<SUP>th</SUP> and Sage Avenue
in Troy, NY. Show dates are September 7th, 8th, 14th and 15<SUP>th</SUP>
at the RPI Playhouse on <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">15<SUP>th</SUP> Street</st1:address></st1:Street> in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Troy</st1:place></st1:City>. <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</I> will be directed
by Amanda Brinke. No prepared monologue necessary. Actors will read
directly from the script.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN">Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN"> is the story of a Southern family in crisis,
focusing on the turbulent relationship of a wife and husband, Maggie "The Cat"
and Brick Pollitt, and their interaction with Brick's family over the course of
one evening gathering at the family estate in Mississippi, ostensibly to
celebrate the birthday of patriarch and tycoon "Big Daddy" Pollitt. Maggie,
through wit and beauty, has escaped a childhood of desperate poverty to marry
into the wealthy Pollitt family, but finds herself suffering in an unfulfilling
marriage. Brick, an aging football hero, has neglected his wife and further
infuriates her by ignoring his brother's attempts to gain control of the family
fortune. Brick's indifference, and his nearly continuous drinking, date back to
the recent suicide of his friend Skipper. Big Daddy is unaware that he has
cancer and will not live to see another birthday; his doctors and his family
have conspired to keep this information from him and his wife. His relatives are
in attendance and attempt to present themselves in the best possible light,
hoping to receive the definitive share of Big Daddy's enormous wealth. (Source:
Wikipedia)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3>Available Roles:</FONT></P>
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size=3>Margaret - The play's cat. Maggie's loneliness and Brick's
refusal to make her his desire, has made her hard, nervous, and bitchy. The
woman constantly posing in the mirror, Maggie holds the audiences transfixed.
The exhilaration of the play lies in the force of the audience's identification
with its gorgeous heroine, a woman desperate in her sense of loneliness, who is
made all the more beautiful in her envy, longing, and dispossession. </FONT></P>
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size=3>Brick - The favorite son and mourned lover. Brick embodies an
almost archetypal masculinity. At the same time, the Brick before us is also an
obviously broken man because of his repressed homosexual desire for his dead
friend Skipper. </FONT></P>
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size=3>Big Daddy - Brick's father. Affectionately dubbed by Maggie
as an old-fashioned "<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Mississippi</st1:place></st1:State> redneck," Daddy is a large, brash,
and vulgar plantation millionaire who believes he has returned from the grave.
Though his coming death has been quickly repressed, in some sense Daddy has
confronted its possibility. In returning from "death's country," Daddy would
force his son to face his own desire. </FONT></P>
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size=3>Big Mama - Brick's mother. Fat, breathless, sincere, earnest,
crude, and bedecked in flashy gems, Mama is a woman embarrassingly dedicated to
a man who despises her and in feeble denial of her husband's disgust. She
considers Brick her "only son." </FONT></P>
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size=3>Mae - A mean, agitated "monster of fertility" who schemes
with her husband Gooper to secure Big Daddy's estate. Mae appears primarily
responsible for the burlesques of familial love and devotion that she and the
children stage before the grandparents. </FONT></P>
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size=3>Gooper - A successful corporate lawyer. Gooper is Daddy's
eldest and least favored son. He deeply resents his parents' love for Brick,
viciously relishes in Daddy's illness, and rather ruthlessly plots to secure
control of the estate. </FONT></P>
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size=3>Reverend Tooker - A tactless, opportunistic, and hypocritical
guest at Big Daddy's birthday party. As Williams indicates, his role is to
embody the lie of conventional morality. Note especially in Act III his off-hand
anecdote about the colors of his cheap chasuble fading into each other.
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size=3>Doctor Baugh - The sober Baugh is Daddy's physician. He
delivers Daddy's diagnosis to Big Mama and leaves her with a prescription of
morphine. </FONT></P>
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size=3>The Children - Mae and Gooper's children. They appear here as
grotesque, demonic "no- necked monsters" who intermittently interrupt the action
on-stage. Under Mae's direction, they offer up a burlesque image of familial
love and devotion. </FONT></P>
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size=3>The servants - The plantation servants appear throughout the
play. Note Williams's references to "Negro voices." In the birthday scene, they
appear laughing at the edges of the stage, functioning to almost ornament the
grotesque tableau. </FONT></P>
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size=3> </FONT></o:p></P><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Alpha Psi Omega is a National Theater Honor Fraternity. The Delta Xi Cast is associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has been in existence since 1937. We welcome both student and community members for acting and production roles.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE>
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size=3> </FONT></o:p></P><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Producer Greg Zabielski is also seeking the following production roles:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Stage Manager<BR>- Set Designer <BR>- Master
Carpenter<BR>- Props Master<BR>- Costume Designer<BR>- Master Electrician<BR>-
Sound Designer<BR>- Light Designer<BR>- Publicity Director<BR>- Hair and Make-up
Person/People*<BR>- House Manager*<BR>- Box Office Manager*<BR><BR>The last
three production roles* do not have to be present in Troy during the summer, but
interested parties should apply for them now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Deadline for production roles is
Wednesday, June 20<SUP>th</SUP>.<BR><BR>Submissions should be made by email or
if that is not possible, by phone to:<BR><BR>Greg Zabielski, Producer
<BR>Email : </FONT><A title=mailto:VigilantThief@gmail.com
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