[Capdist-auditions] The Countess at Ghent Playhouse

[Judy Staber]

The Ghent Playhouse announces auditions for
The Countess By Gregory Murphy
Directed by Kate Gulliver
 
Audition dates: Monday and Tuesday evenings August 13 and 14
Sign in at 6:30 p.m. for 7 p.m. at the Ghent Playhouse
On Town Hall Place off Route 66 in Ghent, NY  no calls please.            

Based on one of the most notorious scandals of Victorian England, The Countess is a tale of madness, cruelty, and obsession, and perhaps one of the greatest love stories of all times. In 1853, well-known art critic John Ruskin, his wife Effie Gray, and his friend and protégé, the pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, depart in high spirits for the Scottish Highlands. Millais plans to paint a portrait of his mentor, whom he idolizes. When they return to London four months later, Millais’s hatred for Ruskin is exceeded only by his passion for the beautiful, young Mrs. Ruskin. The terrible truth at the heart of the Ruskin marriage, which is gradually revealed through the persistence of Effie’s friend Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, rocks London society and forever changes the lives of Millais and the Ruskins.
 
CAST:
Euphemia (“Effie”) Gray Ruskin, age 25.
John Ruskin, pre-eminent art critic and writer, age 35.
John Everett Millais, Painter and a founder of the  Pre-Raphaelite movement, age 25.
John James Ruskin, John Ruskin’s father, a successful wine merchant,age 68.
 Margaret Ruskin, John Ruskin’s mother, age 72.
Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, writer and friend of Euphemia Ruskin, age 45.
Frederick Crawley, John and Euphemia Ruskin’s elderly servant.
 

Performance dates are October 12 – 28, 2012, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
 

Judy Staber
Old Chatham, NY 12136-0072
518-794-9091
pantoloon at fairpoint.net 
www.jstaber.com/

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