[NEohioPAL] One week from today. Auditions for "Pray for the Missing Girls" at Tri-C West

[Gloor, Fred]

The Tri-C Western Campus Theatre Department announces auditions for
"Pray for the Missing Girls" by Jean Seitter Cummins.  

 

The winner of Tri-C's first Great Lakes Play Competition, Pray for the
Missing Girls is the story of Marion, an award-winning news reporter
trying to find her missing daughter. While working on a story in Juarez,
Mexico and remote Texas, she discovers that, since the beginning of
time, far too many innocents have paid the ultimate price in the name of
"commerce" and "civilization."  Auditions will take place September 6th
and 7th at 8:00 pm in the Western Campus Theatre located at 11000
Pleasant Valley Rd. Parma, OH  44130.  This production will be directed
by Western Campus faculty member, Fred Gloor.  

 

About the Playwright: 

 

Jean Cummins is a playwright, dramaturge, and occasional theater critic
whose reviews have appeared in the Cleveland Scene.  She served for many
years as Literary Manager for Dobama Theatre and now directs the First
Mondays play reading series.  Jean was the recipient of an Individual
Artist Grant from the Ohio Arts Council in 2004 and two of her plays,
Lives of the Saints and Artemisia, were semi-finalists for the National
Playwrights Conference (The O'Neill) in 2009 and 2011, respectively.  In
addition to receiving first prize in the Lake Erie Playwright
competition, Pray for the Missing Girls is currently a semi-finalist in
a competition run by MultiStages, a New York theater company that
specializes in multidisciplinary, multicultural work.

 

About the Play: 

 

"Pray for the Missing Girls" was written in the summer of 2004 with the
support of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. It was
read at The Cleveland Play House in August of that year and in November
and December of 2009 as part of the First Mondays reading series.
Meanwhile interest in Juarez has been growing as the crime wave changes
from a femicide - in which young girls, many of them employees of
American owned assembly plants or maquiladoras were the chief target -
to a "free for all

 

Is this an example of what happens when a country tolerates lawlessness
against the poor as long as its middle class is safe?  Or is it just
about the growth of the cartels that now openly control the city and
many of its police. Charles Bowden called his collection of essays and
photographs, published in 1998, Juarez: Laboratory of our Future.  His
work calls attention to the ever-widening gap between the middle class
and the poor, the growth of "super cities" that draw those with no
money, no education and no experience of life outside an agrarian
environment, and the growth of an international workforce for which no
one country feels responsible.

 

 

Auditions are open to non-students as well as students of Tri-C.  Needed
are a company of approximately 10 Men and 10 Women of all ages and
ethnicities, ages 16 and over.  Auditioners should be prepared to move,
improvise, and read from the script.  The director will not be
auditioning anyone under 16.  Certain roles may receive a stipend.
There are no Equity contracts available.  

 

 

Auditions:                     September 6th and 7th at 7 pm with
callbacks on September 8th

Performance Dates:      November 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th, and 12th, at 8 pm

                                    November 6th and 13th at 2 pm

 

For more information please call:  216-987-5536

Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus Theatre

11000 Pleasant Valley Rd.  Parma, OH 44130

  

 

 

 

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