<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1A00FA"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Marker Felt'" size="6"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 32px;">Theater Voices</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"> will hold auditions for a staged reading of Wit, by Margaret Edson, directed by Carol King.</span></font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Location</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </span><b>Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue, Albany - corner of West Lawrence Street.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Times </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>Sunday August 30</b><sup><b>th</b></sup><b> 5:00pm - 7:00pm</b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b> Monday August, 31</b><sup><b>st</b></sup><b> 7:00pm 9:00pm</b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>--- Please arrive as close to 7pm as possible and be prepared to stay until 9pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Actors will be asked to read scenes from the play.---</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Character Breakdown:</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.5in"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>Harvey Kelekian, M.D.</b><span style="font-weight:normal"> 50s 70s Chief of Medial Oncology, University Hospital<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.5in"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"></span><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Jason Posner, M.D.</b><span style="font-weight:normal"> late 20s Clinical Fellow, Medical Oncology Branch</span></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>Susie Monahan</b><span style="font-weight:normal">, </span><b>R.N., B.S.N</b><span style="font-weight:normal">. late 20s Primary Nurse, Cancer Inpatient Unit</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>E.M. Ashford</b><span style="font-weight:normal">,</span><b> D. Phil</b><span style="font-weight:normal">. 70s-80s Professor Emerita of English Literature</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>Mr. Bearing </b><span style="font-weight:normal">Vivians father</span><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b>Lab technicians, Students, Residents etc.-- </b><span style="font-weight:normal">may be</span><b> </b><span style="font-weight:normal">played by 2-3 actors.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>The role of Vivian Bearing, Ph.D. has been cast.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Brief synopsis:<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">The play is structured as the last hours of Dr. Vivian Bearing, a university professor of English, who is dying of ovarian cancer. She recalls the initial diagnosis of Stage IV metastatic ovarian cancer from her oncologist, Dr Harvey Kelekian. Dr Kelekian then proposes an experimental chemotherapeutic treatment regimen consisting of eight rounds at full dosage. Vivian agrees to the treatment.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Over the course of the play, Bearing assesses her own life through the intricacies of the English language, especially the use of wit and the metaphysical poetry of John Donne.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: -22.5pt; "><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">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.</div> <!--EndFragment-->
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