[Capdist-auditions] Auditions for "Mrs. Warren's Profession" at Albany Civic Theater May 9 & 10, 2011

[Charles Treadwell]

Auditions for Albany Civic Theater's first show of the 2011-2012 season, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Juliet King, will be held Monday, May 9 and Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at Albany Civic Theater, 235 Second Avenue, Albany, NY, 462-1297, info at albanycivictheater.org.
 
"Mrs. Warren's Profession" runs September 2-18, 2011.
 
Sign-ins begin at 7pm both evenings and auditions begin at 7:30pm; there is no need to make an appointment. There is no need to prepare a monologue; auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. We are looking for 2 women (one able to play age 18-22, one able to play age 45-50) and 4 men, ages 20-55. 

Synopsis:

Young Vivie Warren, emancipated, intelligent and self sufficient, is astounded to learn her mother rose from poverty to riches through prostitution-and also that she is now part owner and operator of a chain of brothels.  Mrs. Warren ably justifies her past-attacking a hypocritical society that rewards vice and oppresses virtue.  Mrs. Warren states that poverty and the society that fosters poverty are the real villains and that life in a brothel is preferable to life in a 19th century factory.  Written in 1893, this is Shaw's controversial attack on society's hypocrisy.

Available roles:

Miss Vivie Warren (18-22): An attractive specimen of the sensible, able, highly-educated young middle-class. Prompt, strong, confident, self-possessed. Plain business-like dress, but not dowdy.

Kitty Warren (45-50): Formerly pretty, showily dressed. Rather spoilt and domineering, and decidedly vulgar, but, on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman.

Frank Gardner (20-25): Pleasant, pretty, smartly dressed, cleverly good-for-nothing, not long turned 20, with a charming voice and agreeably disrespectful manners.

Mr. Praed (42-47): (pronounced "prayed") Hardly past middle age, with something of the artist about him, with an eager susceptible face and very amiable and considerate manners.

Sir George Crofts (45-50):  A tall powerfully-built man, a gentlemanly combination of the most brutal types of city man, sporting man, and man about town.

Rev. Samuel Gardner (50-55):  Externally he is pretentious, booming, noisy, important. Really he is that obsolescent phenomenon the fool of the family, clamorously asserting himself as father and clergyman without being able to command respect in either capacity.



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