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<!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Marker Felt'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px;">Theater Voices</span></font> will hold auditions for a staged reading of “If We Are Wome</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">n</font></span></font></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">”, </font></span><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Marker Felt'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">by Joanna McClelland Glass, directed by Kristen Vanginhoven. </span></font></font><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"><b>Monday April 20, 7:00pm- 9:00pm</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"><b>Tuesday April 21, 7:00pm- 9:00pm</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><b> </b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black">Please arrive as close to 7pm as possible and be prepared to stay until 9pm. (Some actors from Monday evening may be asked to return to read on Tuesday.) Actors will be asked to read scenes from the play.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"><o:p>Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue, Albany - corner of West Lawrence Street.</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"><b>Character breakdown:</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"><b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black">Jessica MacMillan Cohen: forty’s, writer, her lover of eight years has just died. She is mother to Polly. She is confessional, but always in fragile, wistful, slightly humorous way, rather than self-pitying. She is wont to express herself in a florid, at times melodramatic, manner. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black">Polly: 18, vibrant personality, in her final year of high school. Had plans to attend Yale at the end of the summer. After meeting Charles Whitman, her plans change….<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black">Ruth MacMillan: sixties, mother to Jessica, grandmother to Polly. Illiterate. She is visiting Connecticut from the Canadian Prairies. Her inability to read and write causes her great pain. She is immediately likeable, open and unguarded and, as Rachel says in the play, ‘without guile’. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black">Rachel Cohen: sixties, ex mother-in-law of Jessica, grandmother to Polly. Well-educated. Her energy is fired by a relentless frustration with the world and human behaviour. Sharp, witty, stern and acerbic-a woman who has had, all of her life, one foot in intellectual endeavour and one in the kitchen. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black">Production Dates <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black">May 15, 16, 17, 2009 (Fri.-Sun.) at Steamer No. 10 Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande"; color:black">Announcements will also be listed in the local newspaper and media calendar listings. Contact <a href="mailto:info@theatervoices.org">info@theatervoices.org</a> with questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">www.theatervoices.org</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <!--EndFragment--> </body></html>