<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-42246b03-7fff-3fdf-d3a9-0f6fb421efd2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:800;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">HURRICANE DIANE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:800;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Harbinger Theatre announces Hurricane Diane by Madeline George and directed by Patrick White at Albany Barn Feb. 17th through 26th, 2022. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Auditions will be at the Albany Barn on 12/30/2021. Sides will be available upon request.  Sign-in opens at 6:30 p.m. and the audition will begin at 7 p.m. that evening.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:800;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Rehearsals start 1/24/2022. </div><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:800;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SYNOPSIS:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Greek god Dionysus return to the modern world disguised as a butch dyke gardener Diane with supernatural abilities, whose </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">secret mission is to seduce mortal followers and restore the earth to its natural state</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Her </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">first stop is a cul-de-sac in Red Bank, New Jersey,  where she tries to seduce four housewives to be her first acolytes while redesigning the permaculture of their neighborhood. It’s ‘The Bacchae’ meets ‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey.”  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Actors of all races and ethnicities are strongly encouraged to audition. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All characters 30-50 years old </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:800;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Diane</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: A “butch charm factory.” Moves swiftly, swaggeringly. She is really the Greek god Dyonsius incarnate to restore Earth to its natural state.  Overwhelmingly charismatic. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Diane may be played by any butch person who does not identify as male. The character is a butch dyke but the actor need not be. Casting can run the spectrum of non-cis-male performers from a straight woman who can convincingly play a butch lesbian to a trans man who's willing to play a butch lesbian.” </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:800;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carol Fleischer</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:  Sharply dressed, pointed focus. Not easily swayed but highly influenced by those around her. Neat, forceful, HGTV-obsessed, and deeply unhappy.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:800;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Renee Shapiro-Epps</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Special, but typical. Name brand clothes. Successful, articulate, woke, and “fearful that she’s sold her soul.” This role is for an actress of color. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:800;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pam Annunziata</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Fabulous. Jewelry is her shield and half of her personality. Aggressively caring, aggressively Italian. Self-described “full blooded, both sides.” </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:800;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beth Wann</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Recently abandoned by her husband, and feeling the loneliness hard. Probably harder than she’d care to admit. Wispy. Asks Diane to create her a Fairy Garden. </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div></div>