CASTING OPPORTUNITY – Staged Reading
A staged reading of the FIRST draft of a play by UK Dramatist, Dic Edwards is being scheduled for October 19th on the Basement Arts calendar. The play is:
THE OPPORTUNIST: a two-hander about the brief, misguided life of Lee Harvey Oswald and of his wife, Marina. The play begins when they meet in Russia and ends with the murder of President John F. Kennedy
It is being directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre, Gillian Eaton. She is looking for an actor and an actress, between 20 and 24 years of age.
CHARACTERS:
- LEE at 20 has done the unthinkable; an ex-marine he has defected to the Soviet Union. He is a restless young man looking for a world that will fit his dream. He wants to be somebody, to make a mark on the world. He rejects American capitalism and idealistically searches for it elsewhere.
- MARINA was brought up in Minsk, USSR by a violent step-father. When she meets LEE she falls in love with him partly because he is American and a way out of the bleakness of Soviet Russia in the early 1960s. She has been sexually active but pretends to be a virgin.
AUDITIONS:
Sept 25 in Room 2443 of the Walgreen Drama Center on North Campus
STAGED READING:
Oct 19th and 20th in Studio 1
REHEARSALS: 
