[Capdist-auditions] Reminder that auditions for The Shadow Box are this coming Monday and Tuesday

[Susan Ellis]

Our Own ProductionS, Inc. will be holding auditions for a March 2010 production of: 

  

The Shadow Box 

By 

Michael Cristofer 

  

Directed by:  Donald Bessette 

  

Audition dates are:  Monday and Tuesday, January 11 and 12, 2010 from 6-9 p.m. with call back date of Thursday, January 14, 2010 if needed.  Sign in is at 6:00 with auditions starting promptly at 6:30.   The auditions will consist of reading from the script.  While a resume and head shot is desirable, it is not mandatory. 
 

Auditions will be held at the Rotterdam Senior Citizens Center, 2639 Hamburg St., Schenectady, NY 12303.  
 
Please be advised that this is a show with adult language and content. 

 

For any questions, please email ourownproductionsinc at yahoo.com 

    


The roles being cast are: 

  

Agnes – age range 20-30 

Felicity – age range 50 and up 

Brian – age range 25-45 

Beverly – age range 25-45 

Mark – age range 25-45 

Joe – age range 35-50 

Maggie – age range 35-50 

Stephen (the teenage son) - age range 16 and up 

The Interviewer – any age 

  

The play revolves around a trio of terminally ill patients, each of whom lives in a separate cottage at a hospice. Each is being interviewed about the process of dying. For most of the play, the interviewer is unseen, which means that characters speak directly to the members of the audience, as if they were the interviewer.   The first dying person is Joe, a middle-aged, blue-collar family man. Joe seems well-adjusted and has accepted that he is dying. However, his wife Maggie is in denial and has not told their son Steve about his father's condition.
 
The second dying person is Brian, a bisexual English professor. He is being cared for by his lover, Mark. They receive a visit from Brian's flamboyant, slightly trashy ex-wife Beverly. Beverly's presence lifts Brian's spirits but rankles Mark.
 
The final dying person is Felicity, an elderly, cantankerous, somewhat senile woman, who is cared for by her long-suffering daughter Agnes. Felicity is in great pain but refuses to die because she remains hopeful that her favorite daughter, Claire, will return to her soon.
 
“An important, touching and courageous play.... Triumphantly turns up.... Cristofer writes with the compassion of the undamned. An extraordinarily good Broadway play with meaty roles for actors." -N.Y. Times 
 
"By far the finest play of the New York season, beautifully realized drama of sensitive perceptions often as funny as it is moving." -Washington Post 
 
"Extraordinary. An overwhelming emotional experience. Truly startling and in its uncompromising way, very funny." -Boston Globe 
 
Winner of a Tony Award for Best Play and a 1977 Pulitzer Prize. 

 




      
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