[NEohioPAL] Hudson Players Announce Auditions for Black Comedy by Peter Schaffer

[Dana Herro]

Hudson Players encourages all local thespians to come out to audition for
it's season opening, the enlighteningly funny farce, "Black Comedy" by
Peter Shaffer.

This side splitting comedy features reverse lighting where light is dark
and dark is light. Thus characters stumble around blindly in the light but
the audience never searches for laughs. The story from acclaimed playwright
Sir Peter Shaffer (Amadeus, Equus) starts when a power outage foils the
plans of a young sculptor to impress his fiance’s father and a millionaire
art collector with furniture he ‘borrowed’ from his out of town neighbor.
His schemes are plunged into chaos when a fuse blows and his neighbor
returns. Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords and other
snares impede his frantic attempts to return the stolen items before the
light is restored, but ensure that hilarity ensues.

Auditions will be held:
Sunday, September 15 and Monday, September 16 at 7pm at
The Barlow Community Center
41 S. Oviatt Street
Hudson, OH 44236


Directed by OCTA award winning director, Claudia
Lillibridge<https://www.facebook.com/claudia.lillibridge?directed_target_id=0>,
performances of Black Comedy will be held:
November 1, 2, 8, 9, 15 & 16, 2013.

Available Roles:

BRINDSLEY MILLER: A young sculptor (mid-twenties), intelligent and
attractive, but nervous and uncertain of himself.

CAROL MELKETT: His fancée. A young debutante; very pretty, very spoiled;
very silly. Her sound is that unmistakable, terrifying deb quack.

MISS FURNIVAL: A middle-aged lady. Prissy and refined. Clad in the blouse
and sack skirt of her gentility, her hair in a bun, her voice in a bun, she
reveals only the repressed gestures of the middle-class spinster - until
alcohol undoes her.

COLONEL MELKETT: CAROL's commanding father. Brisk, barky, yet given to
sudden vocal calms which suggest a deep and alarming instability. It is not
only the constant darkness which gives him his look of wide-eyed suspicion.

HAROLD GORRINGE: The bachelor owner of an antique-china shop, and
BRINDSLEY's neighbour, HAROLD comes from the North of England. His
friendship is highly conditional and possessive: sooner or later, payment
for it will be asked. A specalist in emotionial blackmail, he can become
hysterical when slighted, or (as inevitably happens) rejected. He is older
than BRINDSLEY by several years.

SCHUPPANZIGH: A German refugee, chubby, cultivated, and effervescent. He is
an entirely happy man, delighted to be in England, even if this means being
employed full time by the London Electricity Board.

CLEA: BRINDSLEY's ex-mistress. Mid-twenties; dazzling, emotional, bright
and mischievous. The challenge to her to create a dramatic situation out of
the darkness is ultimately irresistible.

GEORG BAMBERGER: An elderly millionaire art collector, easily identifiable
as such. Like the Electrician, he is a German.

Questions?
Please email us at info at hudsonplayers.com
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