[NEohioPAL]"FUDDY MEERS" auditions at Fine Arts Association-AUG 12 & 13

[ahedger at fineartsassociation.org]

The Fine Arts Association in Willoughby
announces AUDITIONS
for "FUDDY MEERS" by David Lindsay-Abaire
directed by Ann Hedger

TONIGHT, AUGUST 12 AND TOMORROW, AUGUST 13 at 7:00 p.m.
in the Shadowbox Theatre at the Fine Arts Association.

Production dates:  October 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, & 20, 2002

Any questions, call Ann Hedger at 440-951-7500, ext 103.

All Roles Available:
Roles include - 
Claire - 40's, generally sunny woman with amnesia
Richard - 40's, chatty, friendly, sometimes nervous man
Kenny - 17-20's a troubled teen
Limping Man - 30's/40's, a lisping, limping, half-blind, half-deaf man with 
secrets
Gertie - 60's, a clearheaded lady who's had a stroke and can't speak properly
Millet - 30'/40's, an odd man with a puppet
Heidi - 30's/40's, a tough woman in uniform

The story:  Clair has a rare form of psychogenic amnesia that erases her memory 
whenever she goes to sleep.  This morning, like all mornings, she wakes up a 
blank slate.  Her chipper husband comes in with a cup of coffee, explains her 
condition, hands her a book filled with all sorts of essential information,and 
he disappears into the shower.  A limping,  lisping, half-blind, half-deaf man 
in a ski mask, pops out from under her bed and claims to be her brother, there 
to save her.  Claire's info book is quickly discarded, and she's hustled off to 
the country house of her mother, a recent stroke victim whose speech has been 
reduced to utter gibberish.  Claire's journey gets even more complicated when a 
dim-witted thug with a foul-mouth hand puppet popps up at the window,and her 
driven husband and perpetually stoned son show up with a claustrophobic lady-
cop that they've kidnapped.  Every twist and turn in this plot brings Claire 
closer to revealing her past life and everything she thought she'd forgotten.  
It's one harrowing and hilarious turn after another on this roller coaster ride 
through the day of an amnesiac trying to decipher her fractured life.  This 
poignant and brutal new comedy traces one woman's attempt to regain her memory 
while surrounded by a curio-cabinet of alarmingly bizarre characters.