Auditions for Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer
Directed by Doug Graham
Audition Dates: May 12 and 13, 2025
Artisans Resource Center - Studio O
585 Cobb Parkway SE, Marietta GA
CenterStage North will hold open auditions for our Summer production of Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer on Monday, May 12 and Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00pm. Auditions will be held at Artisans Resource Center - Studio O, 585 Cobb Parkway SE, Marietta GA. Please bring a headshot and resume, if you have them.
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.
CSN supports and encourages diversity in all casting. NOTE: CenterStage North Theatre is an all volunteer troupe and we do not offer pay or stipends at this time.
Directed by Doug Graham
Performance Dates: August 1-3 and August 7-9, 2025
Rehearsals will start in March at Artisans Resource Center - Studio O, 585 Cobb Parkway SE, Marietta GA. Rehearsals will be three weeknight evenings from 7:00pm to 9:30pm. The exact schedule will be discussed at auditions.
Synopsis:
Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and object d’arte “borrowed” from the absent antique collector next door, hoping to impress his fiancee’s pompous father and a wealthy art dealer. The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe, returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed. Unexpected guesses, aging spinsters, errant phone cords, and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored.
Characters:
Brindsley Miller (Male, mid to late 20’s, British Accent): A young sculptor, intelligent and attractive, but nervous and uncertain of himself.
Carol Melkett (Female, mid to late 20’s, British Accent): Brindsley’s fiancee. A young debutante, very pretty, very spoiled, very silly. Her sound should be that unmistakable, terrifying debutante quack.
Miss Furnival (Female, 40’s to 60’s, British Accent): A middle-aged lady. Prissy and refined. Her hair in a bun, her voice in a bun, she reveals only the repressed gestures of the middle-class spinster – until alcohol undoes her.
Colonel Melkett (Male, 50’s to 60’s, British Accent): Carol’s commanding father, Brisk, barky, yet given to sudden vocal calms which suggest a deep alarming instability. It is not the only constant darkness which gives him his look of wide-eyed submission.
Harold Gorringe (Male, 30’s to 40’s, British Accent): The bachelor owner of an antique-china shop, and Brindsley’s neighbor. Harold comes from the North of England. His friendship is highly conditional and transactional: sooner or later, payment for it will be asked. A specialist in emotional blackmail, he can become hysterical when slighted, or (as inevitably happens) rejected.
Schuppanzigh (Male, German Accent): A German refugee, cultivated and effervescent. He is an entirely happy man, delighted to be in England, even if it means being employed full time by the London Electricity Board.
Clea (Female, mid to late 20’s, British Accent): Brindsley’s ex-mistress. Dazzling, emotional, bright, and mischievous. The challenge to her to create a dramatic situation out of the darkness is ultimately irresistible,
Georg Bamberger (Elderly, German Accent): An elderly millionaire art collector, easily identifiable as such. Like Schuppabzigh, he is German.
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