<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Auditions this Monday & Tuesday at the Ghent Playhouse for <i>True West</i></font><font color="#000000">, written by Sam Shepard and directed by Patrick White.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Auditions</font></span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">:<span>  </span><span>          </span></font><font color="#000000">Monday, March 20 and Tuesday, March 21, 2017</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><span>                           </span><span>             </span><span>  </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Sign-in at 7:00 p.m. – Auditions will begin at 7:15 p.m.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><span> </span><span>  </span></font><font color="#000000">THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><span>                              <wbr>      </span><span> </span><span>  </span></font><font color="#000000">6 Town Hall Place (Adjacent to the Ghent Firehouse off Route 66),Ghent, New York</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 81pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Rehearsals</font></span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">: <span>         </span></font><font color="#000000">The rehearsal schedule will be based on the availability of those chosen for the production.</font><span><font color="#000000">  </font></span><font color="#000000">Those interested in auditioning are asked to be as specific as possible in listing any and all conflicts.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Performances:</font></span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><span>   </span><span>  </span></font><font color="#000000">May 19-21, 26-28 and June 2-4, 2017</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"><span>                           </span><span>         </span><span>            </span><span>     </span></font><font color="#000000">Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m., Sunday Matinees at 2:00 p.m.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Casting Info</font></span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">: <span>     </span><span>  </span></font><font color="#000000">Those auditioning will be asked to read specific scenes from the script.</font><span><font color="#000000">  </font></span><font color="#000000">Please see the story and </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><span><font color="#000000">                           </font></span><font color="#000000">character descriptions below for more information about the play.</font><span><font color="#000000">     </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">The Story</font></span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">:<span>  </span></font><font color="#000000">Sam Shepard’s classic comedy of two estranged and seemingly different brothers locked into a self-destructive combat.</font><span><font color="#000000">  </font></span><font color="#000000">The two are reunited after five years at their mother’s home in California, being taken care of by Austin, when the elder brother, Lee, a petty thief, breaks in hoping to score big robbing homes in the neighborhood.</font><span><font color="#000000">  </font></span><font color="#000000">When the two are visited by Saul Kimmer, Austin’s agent, Lee steals his attention, finagling a deal for his improvised Western, while Lee’s labored-over screenplay is unceremoniously dropped, thrusting the play into verbal and physical violence as the two fight for possession and control.</font><span><font color="#000000">  </font></span><font color="#000000">When their mother unexpectedly returns from her Alaskan cruise, she finds her two sons wasted and at each other’s throats.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">The two brothers represent the two sides of the American present:<span>  </span></font><font color="#000000">one sophisticated, cultured, ambitious and successful; the other alienated and outcast, raw, wild and violent.</font><span><font color="#000000">  </font></span><font color="#000000">As the play unfolds, the two characters exchange places and reveal that each is the double of the other.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></u></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000"><u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">The Characters</span></u><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">:<span>  </span></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Austin (20’s) – A “successful” young man with a family and a budding screenwriting career, house-sitting for his mother, who is away on vacation</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Lee (20’s) – A drunk, homeless petty thief, always looking for an angle to make trouble and perhaps a little cash.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Saul Kimmer (30-70) – A Hollywood producer who presents a successful, “with it” façade.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman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