Bellevue Little Theatre, 203 W. Mission (Bellevue) will hold auditions
for the family comedy, "Leaving Iowa", the last production of the
season, on Sunday April 14 and Monday April 15 at 7 pm at the theatre.
Sonia Keffer will direct this production which will open on May 31 and
run for three week-ends. Mark Ferrill will serve as producer. Please
call or email Sonia Keffer at
402.214.3963 or
skef@msn.com for
information.
The cast requires 1 man 30-50, 1 man 40-60, 1 woman 30-50, and 1 woman
40-60. Each of these will play characters in the present and past,
sometimes as children. Additionally, up to 2 women and 2 men are
needed to play multiple characters that Don meets during his journey.
"Leaving Iowa”, is a nostalgic look at the family vacation of the
past. Successful Boston writer Don, having missed his father’s funeral
three years earlier, feels compelled to return his father's ashes to
Dad's boyhood home. Upon arrival he discovers the family homestead is
now a grocery store, and Don is faced with a dilemma -- what to do
with Dad’s ashes?
Not wanting to return home telling Mom and Sis his mission failed, Don
sets out on a road trip to find the proper alternative resting place
for the ashes. The play features the all-too-familiar family road
trips taken during Don's childhood. We relive those delightful yet
disastrous family vacations with him and recall our own memories of
times gone by.
This father-and-son road trip shifts smoothly from the present to
Don’s memories of the annual, torturous vacations of this childhood.
Don’s existential journey leads him to reconcile his past and present
at the center of the United States. Leaving Iowa is a postcard to
anyone who has ever found himself or herself driving alone on a road,
revisiting fond memories of his or her youth.
