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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Circle Theatre Players Audition Notice<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>“Proof” – by David Auburn<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Directed by Sky Vogel<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Audition dates: June 8 & 10 7-9pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Performance dates: October 2 - 11<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Synopsis<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Life is, at its most basic, a series of problems, puzzles, equations to be worked through. And in a sad irony, it’s often the most adept minds that have been the most incapable of finding their solutions. If anything like a solution has ever existed in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>On the eve of her 25th birthday, Catherine, a withdrawn, troubled woman, is facing challenges coming at her all too fast and fierce: The abrupt end of her role as caretaker to her once brilliant but lately mentally-unstable father. The insistent help and unwanted guidance offered by her estranged sister. The determined attention of a former student of her father’s, his loyalties not necessarily benign. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Along with these comes the sudden appearance of a notebook, its pages filled with scribblings that may illuminate a way forward, or reveal instead that there’s only darkness, and emptiness, ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Character Breakdown<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>CATHERINE</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> (20-25) – Smart, vulnerable, funny, sad. She is innately optimistic but has grown tired and lost. Gifted, but has sacrificed years of her prime to care for her father:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>ROBERT</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> (50s-60s) – Gentle, genial, deliberate, giving. A proud man, once a world-renowned mathematician and teacher, he is descending into dementia. His other child is:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>CLAIRE</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> (29) – Brisk, polished, charming, no-nonsense. A Type-A Manhattan financial analyst, living with some regret at what and who she’s neglected along her way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>HAL</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> (23-28) – Intellectual, casual, guileful, self-effacing. Former Ph.D. student of Robert’s, now in a teaching career and facing a life he expects will be unexceptional. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>“Proof” – by David Auburn. Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Best Play.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Produced by Joan Fuess for the Circle Theatre Players on stage at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts, 2880 NY 43, Averill Park, NY <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>For further information, contact <a href="mailto:Jfuess@nycap.rr.com">Jfuess@nycap.rr.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><strong><span style='color:black'>The theatre is located on Rte.43 in Averill Park, a half mile past the blinking yellow light by the intersection with the Lakeview Restaurant, on the left hand side across from Ace Hardware. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style='color:black'>It is fifteen minutes from I-90 and Rte.43 (Defreestville Exit), 30 minutes from Crossgates Mall area, 30 minutes from Delmar and Glenmont, 35-40 from Schenectady.</span></strong><a name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>