[NEohioPAL] Upcoming Auditions for Tri-C West and Metro

[Gloor, Fred]

The Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C©) Theatre Arts department has announced open auditions for productions being presented on the Western and Metro campuses. They are: 

 

"Three Generations of Imbeciles" 

By William Baer

Directed by Bob Ellis

 

Forced sterilization, euthanasia, and an idealized vision for the future of the human race; it may sound like Nazi Germany, but these are the viewpoints an...d policies of the American Eugenics movement. "Three Generations of Imbeciles", the runner-up in our first annual Great Lakes Playwright's Competition, is set against historical injustices that violated the rights of some of our society's more unfortunate citizens. 

 

Auditions will be held September 4 and 5 at 7 p.m. in the Western Campus Theater with callbacks on September 6. 

Dress to move; be prepared to read from the script. 

Production dates: November 2, 3, 8, 9, and 10 at 8 p.m. and November 4 and 11 at 2 p.m.

 

Character breakdown: 

REBECCA DAWSON - Legal researcher and consultant, age 24.

ABBY (ABIGAIL) SMITH - A shy girl living at the Delaware Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded, age 16.

IRENE SMITH - Abby's protective older sister, also living at the Colony, age 17.

LLOYD MILLER - Political columnist for the Dover Daily and David's lifelong friend, age 26.

CHARLOTTE PRESCOTT - David's aunt and secretary, age 48.

JUDGE AARON KINGSLEY - Former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court and David's mentor, age 58.

DR. JOHN CAMPBELL - Superintendent of the Delaware Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded, age 45.

MATTHEW DODD - A factory worker engaged to Abby, age 23.

DR. CARELTON BENEDICT - Harvard-trained neurologist who runs the D.C. bureau of the Eugenics Records Office, age 62.

JUDGE BENJAMIN TAYLOR - Civil Court Judge, Kent County, age 56.

THOMAS REYNOLDS - Kent County assistant prosecutor and David's former colleague, age 26.

 

OTHERS:

MINISTER - Mid-50s.

ORDERLY (MR. JACKSON) - 40s.

ANESTHETICS NURSE - 40s.

NURSE - 40s.

WAITER (EDWARD) - 40s.

FOREMAN - Mid-50s.

JAILER/OFFICER OF THE COURT/SECOND ORDERLY - a large man - 50s

 

No Equity contracts available

 

"Trouble in Mind"

By Alice Childress

Directed by Michael Oatman

 

Making its stage debut in 1955, Trouble in Mind is a race-relations dramedy that very nearly made Alice Childress the first black woman playwright to have a show produced on Broadway. The story details the social and psychological pressures a mixed-race troupe of actors faces while prepping a well-meaning but visibly stereotyped anti-lynching melodrama for its Broadway debut.

 

Auditions will be held Sept. 13 and 14. 7-10 p.m. in the Studio Theatre - MTA 10

Dress to move; be prepared to read from the script.

Production dates: November 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10 at 8 p.m. and November 4 and 11 at 2 p.m.

 

Character breakdown:

 

WILLETTA MAYER - a Black Woman and experienced Actress

HENRY - House Manager for the theater producing this play within a play

JOHN NEVINS - a young Black Actor getting his first theater role

MILLIE DAVIS - a black actress in her 30s who knows the other cast members

SHELDON FORRESTER - an experienced black actor in his later years

JUDY SEARS - a young white ingénue-type actress in her first role

AL MANNERS - a brash, decisive, power-tripping white director of the play within a play

EDDIE FENTON - a young white stage manager, and the whipping boy for Al Manners

BILL O'WRAY - a white attorney

 

No Equity contracts available 

 

For more information, contact Fred Gloor at 216-987-5536 or fred.gloor at tri-c.edu.

 

 

 

 

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