[NEohioPAL] Coach House Agatha Christie Auditions

[nancycates at ohioshakespeare.com]

Coach House Theatre auditions Agatha Christie’s "The Unexpected Guest"
Directed by Andrew Cruse, Associate Artistic Director, Ohio Shakespeare Festival


Coach House’s audiences love nothing better than the annual murder mystery, especially when it’s penned by the Queen of Crime herself!  In "The Unexpected Guest", a stranger lost in the fog wanders into the Warwick estate to find the man of the house dead, and his beautiful wife with a gun in her hand.  Everyone in the household, however, has a reason to want the master dead, and none of the facts match the appearances.

The Details:

Tuesday, October 26th and Wednesday, October 27th, 7pm at the theatre
732 W. Exchange St., Akron, OH 44303

Auditioners should choose the character(s) for whom they would like to be considered.  Scenes featuring each role will be available at the theatre the night of the audition. 

Rehearsals begin December 12, and are generally scheduled Sunday through Thursday nights, 7-10pm.  Performance dates are Thursdays through Sundays, Jan. 27 to Feb. 20, 2011.  (Second and fourth weekends have a Saturday matinee instead of a Thursday evening performance.)

The Parts:

Richard Warwick:  30’s-40’s.  Handsome, cruel, cold and… well… dead.  
Laura: late 20’s-30’s, lovely, well-bred, intelligent, appealing, and an apparent murderess
Michael Starkwedder:  30’s-40’s.  The mystery man lost in the fog, and the constant recipient of too much information
Miss Bennett:  any middle-age… the steadfast secretary, governess, housekeeper and keeper of family secrets
Jan Warwick:  19ish, the sweet, not-quite-normal younger brother of the victim
Mrs. Warwick:  a “woman of a certain age,” the Grand Dame mother of the victim
Angell:  the suspicious, blackmailing, male nurse (any adult age)
Sergeant Cadwalleder:  the poetry-fancying gum shoe (any adult age)
Inspector Thomas:  Scotland Yard’s finest (any adult age)
Julian Farrar:  30’s-40’s, the wealthy politician neighbor, suspected lover of Laura
 
(7) men, (3) women

Please respond to this posting to schedule an audition, and specify date and time preferences.
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