[Capdist-auditions] Auditions for "To Kill a Mockingbird"

[Gail Kitchen]

Since some people had difficulty opening the attachment to the previous 
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                       * * * AUDITIONS * * *

"TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD," Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize Winning Story, 
Dramatized by Christopher Sergel

        SCHENECTADY CIVIC PLAYERS

        12 So. Church St., Schenectady (Stockade)

                Tuesday, June 6th - sign-in at 7:00 p.m.

                Thursday, June 8th - sign-in at 7:00 p.m.


AVAILABLE ROLES: (Parts for 20 actors! Come One-Come All)

SCOUT: Scout is courageous and forthright. She should, ideally, seem as 
young as 9.

JEAN LOUISE: She's Scout, grown older, looking back on the time she was the 
young Scout,

looking for answers to questions that still exist in her memory of that 
time. Mature.

JEM: Scout's brother. The strongest undercurrent in Jem is his desire to 
communicate with his

father. About 11-12.

ATTICUS: Tall, quietly impressive, reserved, and civilized. Courageous and 
without heroics, he

does what he considers just. Nearly 50.

CALPURNIA: Black, proud and capable, she has raised the motherless Scout and 
Jem. Her

standards are high and her discipline as applied to Scout and Jem is 
uncompromising.

DILL: Small and wise beyond his years. He is about the same age as Jem 
(11-12). There is an

undercurrent of sophistication about him but his laugh is sudden and happy.

MAUDIE ATKINSON: Younger than Atticus, but of his generation, she's a lovely 
sensitive woman.

She has wisdom and compassion.

WALTER CUNNINGHAM: A hard-up farmer who shares the prejudices of this time 
and place but

who is nevertheless a man who can be reached as a human being. He also has 
the seeds of

leadership.

REV. SYKES: The black minister of the First Purchase Church. He is an 
imposing man with a

strong stage presence.

HECK TATE: The town sheriff and a complex man. He does his duty as he sees 
it and enforces the

law without favor.

STEPHANIE CRAWFORD: The neighborhood gossip, and she enjoys it to the hilt. 
Her enthusiasm

almost makes it humorous.

NATHAN RADLEY: He is a thin, leathery, laconic man. Brother of Boo.

BOO RADLEY: Arthur Radley (Boo) is a pale recluse who hasn't been outside 
his house in fifteen

years. When an emergency brings him out, he accomplishes his mission and is 
eager to return to

his sanctuary.

MRS. DUBOSE: She is an old woman - ill, walking with difficulty, her pain 
making her biting,

bitter and angry.

TOM ROBINSON: Robinson is black, handsome and vital. He faces up to a false 
charge with

quiet dignity.

HELEN ROBINSON: Helen (Tom's wife) is black and half numb with the shock of 
the false charge

against her husband. She is someone caught in a nightmare.

JUDGE TAYLOR: The judge is a wintry man of the South, who does what he can 
within the context

of his time to see justice done in his court.

MR GILMER: He is a public prosecutor who is doing his job in trying to 
convict Tom. In many

ways his manner is cruel and hurtful, and yet under all this, he too has 
unexpressed doubts as to

Tom's guilt.

BOB EWELL:  Ewell is a bantom-cock of a man who lives with his large family 
by the town dump.

Bob thinks this trial will make him an important man, and when Atticus 
destroys his credibility,

his rage and frustration border on paranoia.

MAYELLA The oldest daughter (about 18) of Bob Ewell, she's a desperately 
lonely and

overworked young woman whose need for companionship - any companionship - 
has

overwhelmed every other emotion. She brings the false charges against Tom 
Robinson.

        "To Kill a Mockingbird" will be directed by Joseph Fava. Performance 
dates

are October 20-22 and 25-29. For more information call the producer, Gail 
Kitchen,

at 372-9286, or email at gkitche1 at nycap.rr.com.