SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER Equity Principal Audition - Westport Country Playhouse Auditions

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

– Equity Principal Auditions

Westport Country Playhouse WCP Agreement $667/week minimum.

Artistic Dir: Mark Lamos

Dir: David Kennedy

Writer: Tennessee Williams

CD: Janet Foster

1st reh: 7/29/11. Runs 8/23-9/10.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor

Lunch from 1 - 2. New York City

Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue.

Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

Seeking (all roles are available):

Violet Venable:

60s. Wealthy dowager from old New Orleans money; has an iron will, imperious attitude and a grandiose sense of entitlement, as well as endless charm -- none of which has been tempered by the stroke she recently suffered. When she wants something, she’s accustomed to getting it. Her greatest passion is for her deceased son, and she’ll stop at nothing to defend his reputation. She’s the epitome of refined Southern aristocracy in looks, bearing and attitude.

Dr. Cukrowicz:

Man, 30s. Preternaturally handsome -- not in a bland all-American way, but with a Continental courtliness. Radiates intelligence and icy charm, but is capable of moments of warmth. Sincere, earnest and upright; his work is everything. He is, in many ways, the moral fulcrum of the play, and the audience needs to identify with him.

Miss Foxhill:

20s-40s. Personal secretary to Violet Venable. Conscientious, though somewhat mousy and afraid of her own shadow. Rather plain in the looks department.

Catherine Holly:

Early 20s. Venable’s niece, a young woman of exquisite and delicate beauty and intelligence, vulnerable and emotionally disturbed, she is revealed, through the action of the play, to possess great strength. All her life she’s been hungry for a basic human connection, and this blistering, raw need has opened her up to being taken advantage of by the brutes of this world. Undergoes the greatest emotional journey of anyone in the play, and experiences highs and lows that would break any other person.

Mrs. Holly:

Late 40s - early 50s. Catherine’s mother, described as a fatuous Southern woman. A little overweight. Somewhat crass, and given to emotional histrionics. Her default manner of existing in the world is to lay on the Southern charm with a trowel, but underneath it she lacks true refinement or grace. Loves her daughter very much, but has not the imagination to identify with her plight. In order to keep the family peace, and because she’s intimidated, she obeys Violet Venable in every way.

George Holly:

Late teens. Catherine’s younger brother, a good-looking frat boy who is tall and elegant of figure. He too is crass, and is completely lacking social graces. Can be rather loud, and can throw his weight around like a bully. Can also be a complete sycophant when he wants something. He is the play’s source of comic relief.

Sister Felicity:

40s-50s. Seems rigid and severe, but also completely conscientious -- a nun straight out of Central Casting. Tall, imposing and rather elegant.