[Capdist-auditions] THEATER VOICES Auditions for WIT

[Theater Voices]

Theater Voices will hold auditions for a staged reading of Wit, by  
Margaret Edson, directed by Carol King.

Location
    	    Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue, Albany - corner  
of West Lawrence Street.

Times
             Sunday August 30th 5:00pm - 7:00pm
             Monday August, 31st 7:00pm – 9:00pm

     --- Please arrive as close to 7pm as possible and be prepared to  
stay until 9pm.   Actors will be asked to read scenes from the play.---

Character Breakdown:
             Harvey Kelekian, M.D. – 50s – 70s Chief of Medial  
Oncology, University Hospital

	   Jason Posner, M.D. – late 20s Clinical Fellow, Medical Oncology  
Branch

             Susie Monahan, R.N., B.S.N. – late 20s Primary Nurse,  
Cancer Inpatient Unit

             E.M. Ashford, D. Phil. – 70s-80s Professor Emerita of  
English Literature

             Mr. Bearing – Vivian’s father

             Lab technicians, Students, Residents etc.-- may be  
played by 2-3 actors.

             The role of Vivian Bearing, Ph.D. has been cast.

Brief synopsis:

The play is structured as the last hours of Dr. Vivian Bearing, a  
university professor of English, who is dying of ovarian cancer. She  
recalls the initial diagnosis of Stage IV metastatic ovarian cancer  
from her oncologist, Dr Harvey Kelekian. Dr Kelekian then proposes an  
experimental chemotherapeutic treatment regimen consisting of eight  
rounds at full dosage. Vivian agrees to the treatment.

Over the course of the play, Bearing assesses her own life through  
the intricacies of the English language, especially the use of wit  
and the metaphysical poetry of John Donne.


Announcements will also be listed in the local newspaper and media  
calendar listings. Contact info at theatervoices.org with questions.
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