<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Confetti Stage announces auditions for </span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">THE BIRTHDAY PARTY</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">by Harold Pinter</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">directed by Linda D. Shirey</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Monday, November 14th & Tuesday, November 15th </span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">6:30pm sign-in; 7:00pm start</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Auditions will be held in our home theater at:</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">The Albany Masonic Temple</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">67 Corning Place in downtown Albany </span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter's 1957 play, The Birthday Party, is set in a run-down boarding house in an English seaside town.  Meg and Petey Boles own the boarding house, which houses one guest, Stanley Webber.  Stanley, who has isolated himself from his mysterious past, is about to see his world explode into a nightmare when two sinister characters arrive on his birthday and turn a harmless birthday party into frightening mental breakdown.  The Birthday Party explores absurdist ideas of existentialism in a meaningless human experience, and is a "compelling take on this blink-of-an-eye we call life."</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">CHARACTERS</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">PETEY BOLES, a man in his 60's, the owner of the boarding house</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">MEG BOLES, a woman in her 60's who helps run the boarding house and is married to Petey </span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">STANLEY, a man in his 30's, unkempt, a possible musician, angry and depressed</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">GOLDBERG, a Jewish man who works for a unnamed organization, outwardly polite, internally violent</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">MCCANN, an Irishman, also a member of an unnamed organization, simple, physically aggressive</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">LULU, a woman in her 20's, a friend of Meg's, childish and flirtatious, she is interested in Stanley</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Performance dates:</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">February 17-19 & 24-26, 2017</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Tech week schedule TBD the week of February 10-16, 2017</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Actors do not have to prepare anything for the audition, as sides will be provided.  Actors will be asked to stay for the entirety of the audition.  Please be prepared with your schedule conflicts.</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:'san francisco',-apple-system,blinkmacsystemfont,'.sfnstext-regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:12px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Please contact director Linda Shirey at <a href="mailto:sweetp7386@aol.com">sweetp7386@aol.com</a> with any questions.</span></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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