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Open auditions for the 2011 New Play Festival will be held tonight, August 15 & tomorrow night, Tuesday, August 16, at 7:00 pm at Centre Stage. This is an excellent opportunity for all, the experienced actor, the novice actor or someone who has never auditioned before to try their hand with a play in the making. A group of four plays will be performed at the festival, September 12th - 16th, readers theatre style, with the voted favorite receiving a staged production in January 2012. There are a variety of roles for men and women to be cast (breakdown below). Check it out! For more information call the theatre at 233-6733!
Starved by Suzanne Heathcote MARGARET- Female 25-40 years old. A loving woman who is in search of a family. DANIEL- Male 30-40 years old. Successful, extremely charming. A bit of a bad boy. TAMARA- 30-40 years old. A very successfully lawyer who does not appreciate having her live interrupted. HELEN- 60-75 years old. A woman who loved her husband deeply. She is now trying to create a new identity for herself.The Kiss of Caiaphas by Terence Patrick Hughes PROFESSOR Ernest Mann - Male 50-60. An extremely intelligent, slightly jaded gay male who is mourning John Lennon's death. PROVOST JANE STILLTER - Female 40-60, A successful woman who appreciates the eccentricities of her faculty, but knows when to intervene. PROFESSOR ARDEN FENSWICK - Male 40-55. A unique part time professor of English. Ernest's life partner. EICHARD FINE- Male 40-55. A powerful ruthless lawyer. OSCAR FINE - Male 18-25. An aspiring writer with a dark side.
The Wind Farmer by Dan O'Neill LEO- Male 22-60. Bright eyes focused on the future. RAMONA- Female 17-25. A sun-bleached dreamer. PALMER - Male 40-60. A farmer who cannot see past his heritage.You Are Here by Steve Totland ROGER- Male 30-45. A developmentally disabled father who loves his son. GUY - Male 16-25. A college-bound son who loves his dad. CLARICE - Female 55-65. A friend of the family who keeps them together. EMILY - Female 16-25. Guy's girlfriend. DERRICK- Male 25-45. Roger's best friend. Also developmentally disabled.Vacuum by Arlene Hutton GRAYSON CAMPBELL - Male 25-35. An idealistic doctor and brilliant research scientist who marches to a different drummer. AMELIA - Female 25-35. Gray's beautiful wife. An accident forced her to give up her own career and her husband is now a disappointment to her. PATRICIA - Female 20-65. A beautiful doctor, a strong smart woman. RUTH - Female 35-55. A lawyer and high-powered corporate executive. JONATHAN HEMMINGER - Male 40-55. A very important man. The puppetmaster, the kind of man who really runs the country. KATHY - Female 25-35. A sexy, young, but very capable woman.??
South Carolina Awards - Live Stats
Best Musical - Top 3
1.
WATIRESS (Centre Stage)
14% of votes
2.
THE COLOR PURPLE (Clark Nesbitt’s No Dream Deffered)