[Capdist-auditions] press release/ Town Players/ auditions/ March 15&16

[Laura G]

Town Players of Pittsfield announces auditions for a staged reading of "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters on Tuesday, March 15 and Wednesday, March 16 at 6:30pm at the Whitney Center for the Arts, 42 Wendell Avenue in Pittsfield. The reading is being directed by John Trainor.


Needed for the cast are males and females ranging in age from 15 through 60+. The director anticipates that only five or six rehearsals will be needed. 


"Spoon River Anthology", the only work for which Edgar Lee Masters is remembered, consists of over two hundred free verse poems, composed as epitaphs for the deceased inhabitants of the fictional town of Spoon River in central Illinois. Published in 1915, the work is an often haunting depiction of life in the 19th century and the first decade of the twentieth in what might be called middle America.  The poems focus on the frustrations, difficulties, cruelties and some successes of the wide variety of characters who rest in the cemetery on "The Hill."



The selections to be included in this staged reading (fewer than half of the total) have been made to give as complete a picture as possible of the wide variety of residents, young and old, rich and poor, lucky and unfortunate, who had some influence on the town, from town drunk to wealthy banker, deserted lover to aspiring politician.  Masters presents a serious look at what life might have been like and might make us think about what life still might be.


This reading will be presented by Town Players in collaboration with the Friends of the Berkshire Athenaeum, at the Athenaeum , 1 Wendell Avenue on May 17.
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