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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The Two Of Us Productions, the award winning theater company based in Copake NY., is holding auditions for their Fall 2023 mainstage production of <b><i>Blithe Spirit</i></b> by Noel Coward. <span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><b>Auditions</b>: <o:p></o:p></li><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'>Tuesday August 15<sup>th</sup> at 7pm.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'>Thursday August 17<sup>th</sup> at 7pm.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'>Saturday August 19<sup>th</sup> at starting at Noon. <o:p></o:p></li></ul></ul><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><b>Callbacks</b>:<o:p></o:p></li><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2'>Callbacks will be Sunday August 20<sup>th</sup> starting at 4pm <i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(as needed</span></i>) <o:p></o:p></li></ul></ul><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in'><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>All auditions and callbacks will be at the Copake Grange, 628 Empire Road, Copake NY. The Grange Building is on Empire Road about 50 yards from the clocktower intersection in the center of Copake. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>All roles are available except as noted below. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Sides will be provide at auditions.<span style='color:#1F497D'> I</span>f potential auditioners would like to look at sides in advance, or need additional information, please write the director at <a href="mailto:StephenSanbornPhD@gmail.com">StephenSanbornPhD@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>COVID vaccination is required in order to be cast. Please bring proof of vaccination to your audition. <o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Blithe Spirit </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>by Noel Coward<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Performances: November 10<sup>th</sup>, 11<sup>th</sup>, 12<sup>th</sup>, & the following weekend of Nov. 17<sup>th</sup>, 18<sup>th</sup> & 19<sup>th</sup>. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>7 roles:<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>EDITH – the speedy maid who has spiritual connections of her own<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>RUTH - the 2<sup>nd</sup> wife of Charles Condimine<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>CHARLES – an established write living in the country and now trying to write about clairvoyance and connections with the spirits<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>DR. GEORGE BRADMAN – a member of the local grentry and friend of Charles<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>MRS. VIOLET BRADMAN – DR. BRADMAN’s wife and confidant<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>MADAME ARCATI – a well-known medium engaged by Charles to conduct a séance for his literary research<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>ELVIRA - the 1<sup>st</sup> wife of Charles, who has died but responds to the séance run by Madame Arcati<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Synopsis: <o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'><b><i><span style='color:black;background:white'>Blithe Spirit </span></i></b><span style='color:black;background:white'>is a comic play by </span><span style='color:black'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward"><span style='color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none'>Noël Coward</span></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none'>, </span></span><span style='background:white'>is set in the home of socialite and novelist Charles Condomine. At the start of the play, while dressing for dinner, Charles and his second wife, Ruth, discuss his first wife, Elvira, who died young, seven years earlier. He comments, "I remember her physical attractiveness, which was tremendous, and her spiritual integrity, which was nil".Among the Condomines' dinner guests is an eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, whom Charles has invited in the hope of learning about the occult for a story he is writing. He has arranged for her to conduct a séance after dinner. During the séance she plays a recording of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin" title="Irving Berlin"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Irving Berlin</span></a>'s song "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_(Irving_Berlin_song)" title="Always (Irving Berlin song)"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Always</span></a>" on the gramophone, inadvertently attracting the ghost of Elvira. The medium leaves, unaware of what she has done. Only Charles can see or hear Elvira, and Ruth does not believe that Elvira exists, until a floating vase is handed to her out of thin air. The ghostly Elvira makes continued, and increasingly desperate, efforts to disrupt Charles's current marriage. Charles accuses her of being "feckless and irresponsible and morally unstable". She finally sabotages his car in the hope of killing him so that he will join her in the spirit world, but it is Ruth rather than Charles who drives off and is killed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white'>Ruth's ghost immediately comes back for revenge on Elvira, and though Charles cannot at first see Ruth, he can see that Elvira is being chased and tormented, and his house is in uproar. He calls Madame Arcati back to exorcise both the spirits, but instead of banishing them she unintentionally materializes Ruth. With both his dead wives now fully visible, and neither of them in the best of tempers, Charles, together with Madame Arcati, goes through séance after séance and spell after spell to try to exorcise them. It is not until Madame Arcati works out that the housemaid, Edith, is psychic and had unwittingly been the conduit through which Elvira was summoned that she succeeds in dematerializing both ghosts. Charles is left seemingly in peace, but Madame Arcati, hinting that the ghosts may still be around unseen, warns him that he should go far away as soon as possible. Charles bids his vanished wives farewell and leaves at once; the unseen ghosts throw things and wreck the room as soon as he has gone. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>