[Capdist-auditions] Final audition night Tuesday, January 12, 2010 for The Shadow Box

[Susan Ellis]

Our Own ProductionS, Inc. will be holding auditions for a March 2010 production of: 
  
The Shadow Box 
By 
Michael Cristofer 
  
Directed by:  Cecelia Gray 
  
Audition dates are:  Monday and Tuesday, January 11 and 12, 2010 from 6-9 p.m.with call back date of Thursday, January 14, 2010if needed.  Sign in is at 6:00with 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, NY12303.  
 
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 Yorkseason, beautifully realized drama of sensitive perceptions often as funny as it is moving." -WashingtonPost 
 
"Extraordinary. An overwhelming emotional experience. Truly startling and in its uncompromising way, very funny." -BostonGlobe 
 
Winner of a Tony Award for Best Play and a 1977 Pulitzer Prize. 


      
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