[NEohioPAL] Fourth Wall Auditions this Weekend

[Justin Tatum]

FOURTH WALL PRODUCTIONS AUDITION NOTICE
“CATTLE CALL” AUDITIONS FOR FOURTH WALL’S SECOND SEASON
 
(December 6th, 2007) Fourth Wall Productions is pleased to announce we will be holding auditions for the three remaining shows of the season.  This will be a cattle call audition for David Allan’s Just Shy of Closure, Matthew A. Sprosty’s The Bank Guards, and Bert V. Royale’s Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.
 
All in all, this will be an audition for 6 male roles in their mid-twenties, 2 girl roles in their mid-twenties, 5 male roles in their late teens to mid-twenties, 4 girl roles in their late teens to mid-twenties, and 1 male role in his forties or older.  Auditions will be held Saturday, January 5th and Sunday January 6th at 5:00-7:00pm.  
 
All actors will be paid a stipend based on contract.  
 
Auditions will take place in Fourth Wall’s new space- Room 221 at The Enterprise Center at Glenville- 540 East 105th Street.  Cleveland, OH 44108.
 
Actors are encouraged to bring a headshot, and resume with them.  Monologues are not necessary, but appreciated.  Actors will read from sides from the various scripts.
 
Actors will be auditioning for all roles they can fill in our season.  If you only want to audition for a specific show, let us know. 
 
ABOUT JUST SHY OF CLOSURE
 
David Allan’s Just Shy of Closure (March, 2008) is the first play from a budding playwright.  In Just Shy, playwright David Allan wondered why there were no great love stories set in the twenty-first century.  Also, he wanted to write a different kind of play where audience members didn’t have to turn off their cell phones before the show, because- “cell phone interruption is what it is all about.”  
The Story: On the night before Elizabeth heads back to Seattle to get married, her friend convinces her to go out and see her very first boyfriend, Ethan.  Ethan and Elizabeth have had a secret crush on each other for fourteen years, never saying anything because they were too shy to.  But, on this night, Elizabeth’s friend will almost get raped by a date, and Ethan’s friend will get himself in trouble with the law by accidentally kidnapping someone.  As Ethan and Elizabeth try and get their true feelings on the table, they are constantly interrupted by their cell phones.  Which asks the question- in the twenty-first century, is there such the thing anymore as a “private life”?
 
When: The show will begin rehearsals late January- beginning of February, and will be performed March 20th-30th.
 
Who:There are 2 male roles in their mid-twenties.
          There are 2 female roles in their mid-twenties.
 
 
ABOUT THE BANK GUARDS
 
(May, 2008) Since Sprosty came to Cleveland, two of his shows (Plans Change, Schsim) were through-and-through comedies.  Knowing he would eventually try a drama on the Cleveland audience, Sprosty wrote Malicious Bunny (a dark comedy) so that the switch from comedy to drama wasn’t as out-of-the-blue.  Also, all three plays were reviewed as having very natural dialogue.  As Vanessa Lange in WestLife said: “[the audience has] the feeling of being apart of an intimate conversation between close friends” (on Plans Change.)  So, Sprosty set out to write a play where the audience felt like they were listening in on the planning of a bank robbery.  Using his own experiences of robbing a bank in college (to help the Athens Police train the bank employees,) Sprosty wrote his first post-college drama.  Fourth Wall is excited to announce Matthew A. Sprosty’s The Bank Guards, set for the Spring of 2008.
 
The Story: The Bank Guards is a play about five security guards posted at the fictional bank “Cleveland Federal.”  Corrupted, and convinced, that they deserve more compensation than their twenty-seven thousand dollar paychecks to protect the wealthiest of Cleveland’s money- they decide to rob the bank.  The Bank Guards is set the night before the robbery where they come together to finalize their plans.  Unfortunately, they’re about to realize that sometimes the best laid plans fall flat.  And when two of the guards kidnap a bank robber to help them, most the guys wonder if they will even make it into the morning alive.     
 
When: The show will begin rehearsals late March, and will be performed May 22nd-June 1st.
 
Who: There are 4 male roles in their mid-twenties
           1 male role in his late teens – mid-twenties
           1 male role of forty years or older
 
 
ABOUT DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD
 
(July, 2008) Last year, Fourth Wall asked its New York and Chicago friends to keep their eyes open for plays making waves in the cities.  In April, a friend came back to Cleveland with a copy of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal, which Fourth Wall immediately took a liking to.  Going out of our comfort zone by dealing with a published play, we felt Cleveland needed to see this play, and who better to gather a cast of twenty-something actors then a twenty-something theatre company?
 
The Story: When CB’s dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace. But a chance meeting with an artistic kid, the target of this group’s bullying, offers CB a peace of mind and sets in motion a friendship that will push teen angst to the very limits. Drug use, suicide, eating disorders, teen violence, rebellion and sexual identity collide and careen toward an ending that’s both haunting and hopeful.
 
Reviews that Dog Sees God received: “Good grief! The Peanuts kids have finally come out of their shells.” —Time Out. “A welcome antidote to the notion that the Peanuts gang provides merely a slice of American cuteness.” —NY Times. “…easily identifiable with the Peanuts crowd yet with a distinctly ‘Royal’ touch…The way Royal builds on the foundation of Charles Schulz’s iconic comic strip actually results in a parody that’s also a stand-alone play apt to resonate even with anyone belonging to that small population segment unfamiliar with Peanuts.” —CurtainUp. “Inventive and raunchy…hysterically funny.” —NY Post. “Bert V. Royal is the playwright of the Off-Broadway show DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD and is he ready to confess all!” —Broadway.com. “DOG SEES GOD doesn’t feel like the same old high-school-warfare schlock. The characters—teenage and reckless—are both genuinely sympathetic and unquestionably cruel. Growing more hysterical — and more harrowing — as it flows to an inevitable, uncomfortable end, this taut comedy manages to make tired clichés about stoners and popular homecoming airheads funny and endearing.” —NY Magazine.
 
Awards: In 2004, it was one of the breakout hits at the New York International Fringe Festival, winning the Excellence Award for Best Overall Production, as well as Theatermania's Play Award of 2004, the GLAAD Media Award for Best Off-Off-Broadway production, Broadway.com's 2006 Audience Award for Favorite Off-Broadway Production and the 2006 HX Award for Best Play.ience Award for Favorite Off-Broadway Production and the 2006 HX Award for Best Play.
 
When: The show will begin rehearsals in Late May, and will be performed July 17th-27th.
 
Who: There are 4 male roles late teens – mid-twenties.
           There are 4 female roles late teens – mid-twenties.
 
 
 
QUICK FACT SHEET
 
What- Auditions for Fourth Wall’s Second Season.
 
Who-  6 male roles in their mid-twenties
           2 female roles in their mid-twenties
           5 male roles in their late teens to mid-twenties
           4 female roles in their late teens to mid-twenties
           1 male role, over forty years old
 
Where: The Enterprise Center at Glenville, Room 221
             540 East 105th St.
             Cleveland, OH 44108
 
When:  Saturday, January 5th, 2008  5:00-7:00pm
            Sunday, January 6th, 2008  5:00-7:00pm
 
How to Set up an Audition time*: Call Rebecca Cole at (330) 283-2442
                                                       Or email fourthwallproductions at yahoo.com
 
 
*If you can’t make one of these audition times, contact Rebecca Cole, and maybe Fourth Wall can accommodate you at another time.Justin TatumFourth Wall Productions
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