[NEohioPAL] DOVER PLAYERS SEEKING ACTRESS FOR THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

[Mark Little]

Sheldon Lawrence, director of Dover Players upcoming play, The Children's
Hour is seeking an actress to portray the grandmother (age range 50s - 60s)
in this well-known play written by Lillian Hellman. If interested, come to
the North Olmsted Town Hall at 5186 Dover Center Road (just south of Lorain
Avenue) on Monday, June 8th  from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. for a reading or
contact director Sheldon Lawrence at phone: 440-823-6169  or e-mail:
<mailto:shelactor at yahoo.com> shelactor at yahoo.com.   Here is additional
information about The Children's Hour, synopsis, rehearsal dates,
performance dates, etc. 

 

The Dover Players will be presenting Lillian Hellman's 1934 play, The
Children's Hour the last 2 weekends in July and the first weekend in August
in North Olmsted's Town Hall.  Sheldon Lawrence is directing this play and
the audition and rehearsal information is below.  

 

Lillian Helman's   The Children's Hour  (1934)

Directed by Sheldon Lawrence

 

Setting: A small town in New England in the 1930s. 

Synopsis: Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, two young women, have a private
boarding school for girls.  One of the girls, a real brat, is caught in a
lie and punished.  She runs away from the school and goes to her
grandmother.  She tells her grandmother that Karen and Martha are lesbians
(not true) and the grandmother, without checking, believes her.  She calls
the parents of the other girls, who take their children out of the school.
The truth does come out in the end, but the lives of the two women have been
ruined.

 

Available Role:  1 woman (age range in 50s or 60s) to portray the
grandmother 

 

Auditions/Reading:  MONDAY, JUNE 8Th   7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. 

Rehearsal Dates:  June 8-12, 15, 17-19, 22-25, 29-30, Jul. 1-3, 6-10, 13-16

Rehearsal Times:  7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. 

Audition and Rehearsal Location:  North Olmsted Town Hall, 5186 Dover Center
Road (just south of Lorain Avenue)

 

Performance Dates: Jul. 17-19, Jul. 24-26, and Jul. 31, Aug. 1-2     Fri.
and Sat. 8:00 p.m. / Sun. 6:00 p.m.

     

Contact director Sheldon Lawrence at phone: 440-823-6169  or e-mail:
<mailto:shelactor at yahoo.com> shelactor at yahoo.com.

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