<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1A00FA"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">***PLEASE NOTE THE CORRECTION FOR ARRIVAL TIMES</span></font></font><div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:32.0pt;font-family:MarkerFelt-Wide; color:#0610FF">Theater Voices</span><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family: MarkerFelt-Wide;color:#0610FF"> will hold auditions for a staged reading of Wit, by Margaret Edson, directed by Carol King.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">Location<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b>Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue, Albany - corner of West Lawrence Street.</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">Times<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b>Sunday August 30</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b>th</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b> 5:00pm - 7:00pm</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b> Monday August, 31</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b>st</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b> 7:00pm 9:00pm</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1A00FA"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px;">***</span></font></font><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> Please arrive as close to start time as possible and be prepared to stay until the end. Actors will be asked to read scenes from the play.---<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">Character Breakdown:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b>Harvey Kelekian, M.D.</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> 50s 70s Chief of Medial Oncology, University Hospital <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span> Jason Posner, M.D.</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> late 20s Clinical Fellow, Medical Oncology Branch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b>Susie Monahan</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">, </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b>R.N., B.S.N</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">. late 20s Primary Nurse, Cancer Inpatient Unit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b>E.M. Ashford</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">,</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b> D. Phil</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">. 70s-80s Professor Emerita of English Literature<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b>Mr. Bearing </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">Vivians father</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT"><b>Lab technicians, Students, Residents etc.-- </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:ArialMT">may be</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial-BoldMT"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">played by 2-3 actors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> The role of Vivian Bearing, Ph.D. has been cast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"><a href="http://www.theatervoices.org">www.theatervoices.org</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">Brief synopsis:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">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></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">Announcements will also be listed in the local newspaper and media calendar listings. Contact <a href="mailto:info@theatervoices.org"><span style="color:#0010F3">info@theatervoices.org</span></a> with questions.</span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div></body></html>