PRESENT LAUGHTER - Lakewood Theatre Company
LAKEWOOD THEATRE COMPANY
TO HOLD AUDITIONS
FOR THE NOEL COWARD COMEDY
PRESENT LAUGHTER
JUNE 6, 2015
Lakewood Theatre Company will be having auditions for the Noël Coward comedy,
Present Laughter, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015. Call
503-635-3901 to reserve an audition slot.
The director, Don Alder, is seeking eleven actors: 6 women (ages 20-70s) and 5 men (ages 20-60s). Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to audition. All roles receive remuneration. For a breakdown of roles, please
click here.
Audition Location: Lakewood Theatre Company at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego.
Materials Needed: Please prepare a one-two minute comedic monologue and bring a resume and a current head shot. Auditions may also consist of readings from the script. Please be prepared to stay 30+ minutes if the director requests you to read with others. Callbacks, if needed, will be at the director's discretion.
Performance Schedule: Present Laughter opens November 6, 2015and continues through December 13, 2015. Performances are Thurs. - Sat. at 7:30 PM, some Sundays at 7:00 PM, some Sunday matinees at2:00 PM and two Wednesday performances at 7:30 PM. Lakewood Theatre Company features an intimate 220-seat theatre located at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego.
About the play: Noël Coward's classic Present Laughter is a witty, elegant, and sparkling valentine to the theater about Garry Essendine, a debonair matinee idol who never steps out of the spotlight-even when his life is complicated by the demands of friends, lovers, producers, and playwrights.
Plot: A successful, yet self-obsessed, matinee idol (a character Noël Coward based on himself) prepares for a performance tour in Africa. Before he can leave, he has to deal with a lovestruck ingénue, his long-suffering secretary, his estranged wife, and a crazed young playwright while trying to overcome his impending mid-life crisis.
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About Lakewood Theatre Company
63 Years of Live Theatre: Founded as a not-for-profit organization in 1952, Lakewood Theatre Company is a professional theatre dedicated to the study and presentation of drama in all its forms; the training and development of actors; and the creation, maintenance and operation of a theatre in which to present plays and other forms of entertainment. Lakewood Theatre Company is the oldest continually operated, not-for-profit theatre company in the Portland Metropolitan area. It annually provides more than 400 theatre artists the opportunity to learn and display their craft and attracts more than 40,000 people to its shows.
- 63rd Season -
Productions in the 2014-15 season are underwritten, in part, by
The Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Work for Art Program
The Oregon Arts Commission
The National Endowment for the Arts
Media Sponsor: The Oregonian, Powering OregonLive
