2 Adult male roles left to fill for C.S. Lewis' older brother, Warnie - age 40's H arry Harrington, Oxford Chaplain - age 40's + Please feel free to forward to those you think may be interested byWilliam Nicholson  Audition is Cold-Read
Must be able to perform a believable British Accent Performances: August 8 to September 21 -Rehearsals will tentatively be M, T, W, F, and Saturdays evenings from 6:30-9/9:30. Schedule is subject to change. Based on a true story, C.S. Lewis is a world-renowned writer and professor. Unmarried, he leads a gentleman's life filled by intellectual pursuits, until he meets Joy Gresham. Joy is a feisty, abrasive, intelligent New York divorcee whose sharp-edged, no-nonsense attitudes take Lewis by surprise. Bursting unexpectedly into Lewis's world, Joy shocks his associates and awakens him to deep emotions he has written about, but never experienced. Slowly he opens his heart to this woman, and experiences love on a whole new level. But life is made up of delicate balances, and Lewis must confront a difficult truth: "that a heart awakened to great love is also opened to great pain." ===================================================== Auditions for Oscar Wilde's Auditioning in June/July DATE coming soon! Hiram B. Otis: The American Minister to the Court of St. James. Lord Canterville: The owner of Canterville Chase, who moved his family out of the home when the haunting by the ancestral ghost became too much. Mrs. Lucretia "Lucy" Otis: had been a celebrated New York belle, is now a very handsome, middle-aged woman, with fine eyes, and a superb profile. Miss Virginia Otis: A kind, quiet, polished, but slightly tomboy-ish young woman of 15 Washington Otis: Virginia's older brother; wears gardenia button-holes. Samuel and Stanley Otis: Twin sons of Hiram and Lucy-Nick-named Stars & Stripes Mrs. Umney: The Chase housekeeper, an older woman who, usually, ignores the ghost Sir Simon De Canterville: the ghost Cecil, The Duke of Cheshire: A young British gentleman who wants to court Virginia Synopsis: Adapted from the short story, the Canterville all the accoutrements of a traditional haunted house. Descriptions of the wainscoting, the library panelled in black oak, and the armour in the hallway characterize the Gothic setting. Wilde mixes the macabre with comedy, juxtaposing devices from traditional English ghost stories such as creaking floorboards, clanking chains, and ancient prophecies with symbols of contemporary American Wilde used a myriad of comic sources to shape his story. Thomas De Quincey's "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," a satirical essay, is one apparent source. Wilde would also have been aware of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (1818), a parody of the Gothic novel so popular in the early nineteenth century. Finally, Wilde's own experience on the lecture circuit in the United States undoubtedly helped him ridicule stereotypical American behavior. Indeed, one of the major themes in the story is the culture clash between a sixteenth-century English ghost and a late nineteenth-century American family. But the story also examines the disparity between the public self and the private self, a theme to which Wilde would return again in his later writings. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Auditions for A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving will be in August - stay tuned!!! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ All classes and auditions held at our rented performance facility @ 800 Reading Street, in Folsom. Email us with questions, to register, receive an audition form, send head shots and resumes and for more information on specific roles to be cast. | 
