<div dir="ltr"><div><span>Confetti Stage announces auditions for<br>AGNES OF GOD<br> by John Pielmeier<br> directed by Nate Beynon<br> <br> Auditions Dates & Times:<br> Monday, January 11 and Wednesday, January 13<br> 6:30pm sign-in; 7:00pm audition start<br> <br> Location:<br> The Albany Masonic Hall<br> 67 Corning Place<span><br> Albany, NY 12207 <br> <br>
Performance Dates: 2/26/16 - 3/6/16 (Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm,
Sundays at 2:00pm; Tech week schedule TBD: 2/19/16 - 2/25/16)<br><br></span></span></div><span><span>Readings will be from provided sides.<br></span></span><span><span> <br>
The body of an asphyxiated newborn has been found in the room of Agnes, a
young novice in a convent. When asked where it came from, she insists
that God gave her the baby. Enter Doctor Martha Livingstone, tasked
with determining whether Sister Agnes is competent to stand trial for
murder. Dr. Livingstone soon finds that her questions only beget
thornier mysteries, and Mother Miriam, the convent’s mother superior, is
clearly hiding just as much as she’s allowing the doctor to see. Agnes
of God is a psychological thriller packed with enough plot-twists,
family secrets, and cringe-worthy acts of violence to fill a whole
season of Law and Order: SVU. It is also a meditation on faith and
reason. It explores our need for miracles and their terrible price, and
also the cost of living in a world where only what is measurable and
proven can exist.<br> <br> Characters:<br> Agnes: Young-ish. Agnes is
living with an un-named mental, emotional, or psychological handicap
that keeps her, as Mother Miriam says, “simple”. There is something
undefinably magical about her. Having acknowledged this, it must be
said she is a specific person with a specific past and has specific
likes, dislikes, fears, dreams, and desires. All of which is to say,
Agnes is neither Saint Joan nor Forrest Gump. For starters, Saint Joan
was never never sexually abused by her mother.<br> <br> Mother Miriam:
At least fifty-something, or thereabouts. A former smoker, who still
misses it. A woman who has found a little of her faith again after
loosing all of it. She is a fiercely protective foster-mother to Agnes,
and will fight tooth and nail to keep the young nun’s innocence in
tact. Having said all that, Mother Miriam is as warm, funny, and
sincerely nurturing as she is calculating and antagonistic toward Doctor
Livingstone, if not more so.<br> <br> Doctor Martha Livingstone: In
her forties. Overworked, underpaid, a smoker and probably a drinker,
too. She has careened through the past decade of her disheveled life
with a wry sense of humor, a belief in her chosen profession, and keen
knack for self-deceit. She is smart, funny, bitter, broken, and
resilient. She wants to rescue the world, to take it all home with her
and feed it soup, but knows this sort of thing is frowned upon. As is
usually the case in stories like this, she has issues with The Church.<br> <br> For further info, please contact the director, Nate Beynon at <a href="mailto:natebeynon@gmail.com" target="_blank">natebeynon@gmail.com</a></span></span><div class=""><div id=":1c1" class="" tabindex="0"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Confetti Stage, Inc<br></div><div><a href="http://www.confettistage.org" target="_blank">www.confettistage.org</a></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ConfettiStageInc" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ConfettiStageInc</a><br></div><div><div><span><font color="#888888"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please join us for our upcoming production of <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="4"><b>Agnes of God</b></font></span> by John Pielmeier, <b>February 26-March 6</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><font size="2">!</font></font></font></span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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