THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - Prime Stage Theatre Non Equity Auditions

Prime Stage Theatre Announces Auditions for The Importance of Being Earnest

A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

PITTSBURGH – Prime Stage Theatre will be holding auditions for The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde.

Auditions will be on Saturday, Jan. 25 and Sunday, Jan. 26 from 1-6 pm at The Oakland School, 362 McKee Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. The show runs from March 8 through March 16 at The Hazlett Theatre including three weekday student matinee performances at 10:00am.

Directed by Rich Keitel, The Importance of Being Earnest is casting for the following roles:

John (Jack/Ernest) Worthing, J.P. - Mid 20's. The play’s protagonist. Jack Worthing is a seemingly responsible and respectable young man who leads a double life.

Algernon Moncrieff - Mid 20's. The play’s secondary hero. Algernon is a charming, idle, decorative bachelor, nephew of Lady Bracknell, cousin of Gwendolen Fairfax, and best friend of Jack Worthing, whom he has known for years as Ernest.

Gwendolen Fairfax - Mid 20's. Algernon’s cousin and Lady Bracknell’s daughter. Gwendolen is in love with Jack, whom she knows as Ernest. A model and arbiter of high fashion and society, Gwendolen speaks with unassailable authority on matters of taste and morality.

Cecily Cardew - Late Teens, Early 20's. Jack’s ward, the granddaughter of the old gentlemen who found and adopted Jack when Jack was a baby. Cecily is probably the most realistically drawn character in the play.

Lady Bracknell - 40-65 Algernon’s snobbish, mercenary, and domineering aunt and Gwendolen’s mother. Lady Bracknell married well, and her primary goal in life is to see her daughter do the same. She is cunning, narrow-minded, authoritarian, and possibly the most quotable character in the play.

Miss Prism - 40-65 Cecily’s governess. Miss Prism is an endless source of pedantic bromides and clichés.

Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D. - 40-65. The rector on Jack’s estate.

Lane - 20-88. Algernon’s manservant. When the play opens, Lane is the only person who knows about Algernon’s practice of “Bunburying.” Lane appears only in Act I.

Merriman - 20-88. The butler at the Manor House, Jack’s estate in the country. Merriman appears only in Acts II and III.

Interested actors need to prepare a two-minute British Comedic Monologue. Please bring a photo and resume.

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