[Capdist-auditions] Auditions for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

Sun Dec 10 11:30:07 EST 2023


	AUDITIONS JANUARY 9 & 11, 2024 FOR 

	AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY BY TRACY LETTS 

	AT SCHENECTADY CIVIC PLAYERS 

	Schenectady Civic Players will be holding open auditions for 

	AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY  

	BY TRACY LETTS 

	Directed by Michael McDermott 

	AUDITIONS:  

	Tuesday, January 9 & Thursday, January 11, 2024 

	Sign-ups begin at 7:15 pm, auditions begin at 7:30 pm 

	LOCATION:  

	Schenectady Civic Players is located at 12 S. Church St, Schenectady,
NY, 12305. 

	PERFORMANCES DATES:  

	March 15 – 17 & 20 - 24, 2024 

	Friday / Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 2:30 pm, Wednesday/Thursday
at 7:30 pm  

	REHEARSALS: 

	There will be 3-4 rehearsals per week, days/times depending on cast
availability. 

	Please, bring lists of conflicts to auditions.  

	SYNOPSIS: 

	August: Osage County, the 2008 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for
Drama, centers around the Weston family, who reunite after their
father, Beverly Weston, a poet and alcoholic, disappears and is later
found dead [1]. As the family gathers in their grief, the conflict
between Violet, the drug-addicted mother, and Barbara, the eldest
daughter [2] explodes when the family’s horrifying secrets are
exposed.  

	AVAILABLE ROLES: 

	Ages listed are for reference points only. Characters can easily skew
younger or older, based on the best mix of talent. Casting may be
determined by the mix of actors auditioning for the three sisters
—Barbara, Ivy, and Karen -- and adjustments made based on that
group. 

	VIOLET WESTON, 65 years old, is Beverly's wife and is addicted to
prescription drugs. Violet is a sharp-tongued woman who has raised
three daughters, Barbara, Ivy, and Karen. A lifelong smoker, at the
start of the play she is suffering from mouth cancer and has become
addicted to prescription drugs, not for the first time. She prides
herself on telling the often-unkind truth, but she never talked to her
husband about his love affair or the child he fathered, Little
Charles. Must have no fear of heights in climbing a multi-level set
several times a performance. 

	BEVERLY WESTON is a 69-year-old poet and university teacher. He is an
alcoholic who takes his own life at the start of the play, leaving his
wife, three grown daughters, and extended family to deal with the
consequences. Beverly grew up poor and was homeless for a time. He
becomes a successful poet and professor, although he never liked
teaching and eventually his talent for writing dries up. Must have no
fear of heights, possibly climbing a multi-level set. 

	BARBARA FORDHAM, 46-year-old, is the oldest daughter of Violet and
Beverly Weston. Barbara lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her teenaged
daughter, Jean. She is in the process of separating from her
unfaithful husband, Bill, a university professor who is having an
affair with one of his students. Barbara once had ambitions of being a
writer, ambitions her father thought she had the talent to realize.
But instead, she became a faculty wife, like her mother. 

	IVY WESTON, 44 years old, is the Weston’s middle daughter. Ivy is
the daughter who dutifully remains unmarried and at home while her
sisters, Barbara and Karen, go on to build new lives far away. Taking
care of the aging Beverly and Violet has fallen to Ivy, and she is
bitter about it. She hopes to find happiness in New York with Little
Charles, who turns out to be her half-brother. 

	KAREN WESTON, 40 years old, is the Westons' youngest daughter. Karen
has a new relationship every year, and she is unreasonably optimistic
about her prospects with her latest fiancé, the sleazy, unworthy
Steve, who has already been married three times. She is self-absorbed,
prattling about her honeymoon while the family gathers to bury her
father, Beverly. 

	MATTIE FAE AIKEN, 57 years old, is the younger sister of Violet
Weston. Mattie Fae seems devoted to her sister, Violet, but she once
had an affair with Violet's husband, Beverly. Her only son, Little
Charles, is Beverly's child. Some combination of anger or sorrow over
the affair seems to have left her permanently disappointed in her son,
Little Charles, whom she treats with scorn. 

	LITTLE CHARLES, 37-year-old, is the son of Violet's sister Mattie Fae
and is named for his purported father, Charlie Aiken. Bumbling and
inept, Little Charles has never learned to drive and can't hold down a
job for long. His nickname shows the low regard in which most of the
family holds him, as if he were a permanent child. Little Charles's
lack of confidence seems to come from the scorn with which his mother,
Mattie Fae, treats him. 

	CHARLIE AIKEN, 60-year-old, is an upholsterer. He was a close friend
of his brother-in-law, Beverly Weston. Bill is a dutiful father to
Little Charles and has a moment where he confronts his wife over her
neglect of him.  

	BILL FORDHAM, 49 years old, is a professor of English and is
separated from his wife, Barbara. 

	JEAN FORDHAM, 14-year-old daughter of Barbara and Bill, is
precociously experimenting with cigarettes, pot, and vegetarianism. 

	SHERIFF DEON GILBEAU, 47 years old, used to date Barbara in high
school. He delivers the news that Beverly has been found dead. 

	STEVE HEIDEBRECHT, 50 years old, a former Oklahoman and current
Florida businessman, is engaged to Karen and is creepy and
inappropriate with Jean. 

	The role of Johnna Monevata a Native American of the Cheyenne tribe
who works as a housekeeper for the Westons will be pre-cast. 

	Notes from the Director, Michael McDermott: Rehearsals will start
January 29. Dates will be based around cast conflicts, but the current
plan is to rehearse Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Individual
conflicts will be considered at casting time. Please bring all
possible recurring or individual dates to the auditions to enable us
to ascertain your availability. 

	All Actors must be available for all performances, including
rehearsals March 13 and 14. Actors must be available all day for Tech
Run on March 9 and are expected to stay for the entirety of strike
March 24.  

	Please email the director with questions: Irishmike518 at yahoo.com  

	____________________________________________________________ 

	Schenectady Civic Players promotes inclusive casting, and encourages
individuals, regardless of gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity,
or disability, to participate in the audition process.  

	Thank you,  

	Schenectady Civic Players 

	Playhouse: 12 S Church St, Schenectady, NY 12305 

	Phone: (518) 382-2081 

	For more information about the theater, please visit our website at
www.civicplayers.org [3] 

	 

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