[NEohioPAL]Bang and Clatter Auditions TODAY

[bangandclatter at netzero.net]

Ohio's Newest Professional Theatre

The Bang and the Clatter wants you...

Auditions today from 12 - 5 pm at Summit ArtSpace. =

140 East Market St. Akron 44308

Call 330-606-5317 for information

We are looking for 24 actors ages 18 - 60 for roles in the following sho=
ws:

Blackbird by Adam Rapp (1f) 18 - 24 - Baylis is cast.
Christmas Eve.  A rented room on Canal Street, New York City.  Baylis is=
 a disabled Desert Storm veteran and ex-junkie. Froggy is a teen heroin =
addict stricken with Hepatitis.  A setting that could hardly be consider=
ed a bleaker snapshot of the human condition.  However, out of  this sce=
nario evolves novelist/playwright Adam Rapp's first love story. =


Griller by Eric Bogosian
Cast: 5 men (25 - 60), 4 women (22 - 50)
A farce that turns the American Dream on its head. Set in a New Jersey b=
ackyard, a barbecue gathering turns sinister and deadly.

Beggars in the House of Plenty by John Patrick Shanley
Cast: 3 men (25 - 60), 3 women (22 - 50)
THE STORY: Johnny is the youngest and most sensitive of three siblings s=
tranded in a surreal Irish Catholic household lorded over by their fathe=
r, a butcher from the Bronx, and their mother, a chipper, hope-mongering=
 wreck of a woman who can only grant chill advice, not comfort. Their da=
ughter Sheila flees her family through marriage while Joey, a high-schoo=
l dropout, opts for a career in the navy and eventually returns from Vie=
tnam. Alone, Johnny takes solace in pyromania and writing about his fami=
ly. As Johnny matures, he becomes increasingly perceptive, revealing wit=
h more and more sympathy the underlying causes of so much family misery.=
 In between Johnny's musings are raucous scenes of catastrophic violence=
 barely held in check by each character's submerged but instinctual need=
 for the love of one another. In the plays final scenes, part memory, pa=
rt hallucination and part truth, Ma is seen through Johnny's eyes as she=
 once was: innocent and flirtatious (even with Johnny), and painfully un=
prepared for her ultimate destination with Pop. The father is also trans=
figured in Johnny's imagination: broken, remorseful and unable to identi=
fy with the mantle of fatherhood that his own traditional upbringing inf=
licted upon him. As the forgiving vision begins, Pop and Ma dance to "Da=
nny Boy," the song to which they used to force their children to dance, =
but when Joey interrupts he is struck dead by his father. Johnny ends th=
e play by lighting more matches, looking back upon his vision of Joey's =
death but unable to outrun it.

Romance by David Mamet
7 men (25 - 60)
An exhilarating courtroom farce set against the backdrop of a Middle Eas=
t peace summit, David Mamet's latest play takes gleeful aim at everythin=
g from our judicial system to world peace; skewering Catholics, Jews, Ga=
ys, podiatrists, chiropractors, Shakespeare and, of course, lawyers, alo=
ng the way.

We look forward to seeing you.