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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">The
Ghent Playhouse<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:13.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">6 Town
Hall Place<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>
Off Route 66<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:13.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">Ghent,
NY 12075<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:13.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><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:13.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">January
13, 2014<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:13.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:ArialMT">GHENT PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS FOR ALAN AYCKBOURN’S
“HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES”<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:13.0pt;font-family:ArialMT"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">The Ghent
Playhouse invites interested actors to audition for the fourth production of
the 2013-2014 season:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT"> <b>“How the Other
Half Loves” by Alan Ayckbourn</b></span><span style="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-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-family:ArialMT">Performance dates: March
21, 22, 23; 28,29,30; and April 4, 5, 6<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">Fridays and Saturdays at
8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">Audition dates: January
27 and 28 at 7:00pm. (Sign in at 6:30)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">at The Ghent Playhouse
off Route 66 in Ghent, New York<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">Audition sides will be
provided. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">For questions, please
contact the director, Sky Vogel: <a href="mailto:skyvogel@aol.com">skyvogel@aol.com<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></a></span><span style="font-family:
CenturySchoolbook"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:CenturySchoolbook"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Synopsis</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Frank</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial"> is an upper-level manager in a nondescript business
office. He is married to <b>Fiona</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">.
The two of them are comfortable in life, though Fiona is a bit bored. Frank, it
should be added, is a bit dim.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Bob</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial"> and <b>Terry</b></span><span style="font-family:
Arial"> are a young couple with an infant child. Bob works for Frank. Terry
spends her days writing letters to newspaper editors trying, without much
success, to right one or more of society’s wrongs. She could be a better
mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">Bob is sleeping with
Fiona. Bob could be a better husband.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">In an attempt to provide
cover for a late night rendezvous, Bob tells Terry he has been out
offering counsel to a co-worker, <b>William</b></span><span style="font-family:
Arial">, supposedly distraught because his wife, <b>Mary</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, has been having an affair. This seems a little more
than odd considering Mary is mousy, plain, and meek. William, himself no prince
of partying, may also be up to sexual shenanigans. At least so suspects Frank,
who, as mentioned, is not the sharpest cheddar in the pantry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">In an effort to manage the
situation, Frank invites William and Mary to his and Fiona’s home for dinner.
Terry also wants to ride to the rescue and plays dinner hostess to
William and Mary on a subsequent evening. I say “subsequent,” but we see
“simultaneous.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">Hilarity
ensues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">Bob storms out to get
drunk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Terry storms out to get
Bob.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>William’s buttoned-down
composure pops several buttons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Mary has a most massive meltdown.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> Fiona discovers that
cougars are better left in Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Frank considers early retirement. The baby receives his baptism by fire,
otherwise known as The Stage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Character Breakdown</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">FRANK (50s) – Pleasant
and affable with a can-do spirit. Tends toward pomposity and bloviation.
Has others’ best interest at heart. However, being prone to absent-mindedness
he may not actually remember what those are. Obliviously married to...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">FIONA (40s-50s) –
Smart, attractive, stylish. A typical day might consist of a visit to the
salon, lunch with a girlfriend or two, maybe some time at a favorite boutique.
Oh, and a quick tryst with...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">BOB (20s-30s) – Handsome
and smooth, but a bit like a word that rhymes with "crass pole".
Looks in the mirror and sees one remarkable specimen (who can't see
that his shirttail is not tucked in). Somehow got married to...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">TERRY (20s) – Cute and
vibrant. Not very domestic. A frustrated idealist, looking to take part in any
number of social causes. Might be forgetting she's got quite a bit already
going on, what with being a new mother to the infant child...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">BENJAMIN (0 or so) – An infant child.*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">WILLIAM
(30s) – An adult child. Quite self-satisfied in that I-know-what-it's-all-about
way. Not a bad guy, but pretty much one shade of gray. Also a
touch domineering - something he can only safely get away with when
married to someone like...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">MARY
(30s) – Shy, plain, socially awkward. However, when given room to
breathe, she can be sweet and caring. With a little sun (no, not like
Benjamin), and some determined self-pruning, it's only a matter of
time before she comes fully to bloom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">*Note:
Benjamin is an unheard & unseen offstage presence. No babies are used (or
harmed) in the making of this play.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Visit the
Ghent Playhouse website: </span><a href="http://www.ghentplayhouse.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:CenturySchoolbook">www.ghentplayhouse.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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