[NEohioPAL] Auditions: August:Osage County- Lakeland Theatre

Martin Friedman via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Fri Jun 20 04:10:35 PDT 2014


 *Lakeland Theatre*

Announces

AUDTIONS for the

Pulitzer Prize-winning drama

Northeast Ohio professional premiere

*August: Osage County*

*by *

*Tracy Letts*

*AUDITIONS*

*Sunday, June 22 @ 1-2:30 pm *

*Monday, June 23 @ 7- 8:30 pm*

*(No specific auditions times needed)*

Directed by Martin Friedman

Sets and Lights Designed by Keith Nagy

 Sound Design by Eric Simna

 Production Stage Manager Nichole Venci



Featuring Anne McEvoy as Violet





*THE STORY:*  Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and several Tony Awards
including Best Play.  *August: Osage County* is set on the plains of modern
day, middle-class Oklahoma. The Weston family members are all intelligent,
sensitive creatures who have the uncanny ability of making each other
absolutely miserable. When the patriarch of the household mysteriously
vanishes, the Weston clans gathers together to simultaneously support and
attack one another.



*Auditions:*

*Sunday, June 22, 2014 1:00pm till 2:30pm*

*Monday, June 23, 2014 7:00pm till 8:30pm*

All auditions will be held at Lakeland Community College’s Performing Arts
Center (PAC). *Sorry, no Equity contracts for this production*. No need
to prepare a monologue.  I will have you read directly from the script.
Additional auditions and callbacks only as necessary; *ALL ROLES
ARE COMPENSATED*.



*Production and Rehearsal dates:*

August: Osage County *will open on Friday, September 19 and run through
October 5, 2014--Friday through Sunday. Of course you will be compensated
for all performances. **Rehearsals will begin in early August. Don't worry,
we will work around vacation schedules. In regards to rehearsals, you will
not be called for rehearsal unless needed. *

*EACH CHARACTER IS WONDERFUL AND COMPELLINGLY DRAWN. SURELY EACH OF THESE
ROLES WILL BE CHALLENGING AND FUN TO PLAY. A VERY THEATRICAL PIECE.   *



*The Roles:*

*Beverly Weston:* The father of the Weston family, between the ages of 65
and 70, an alcoholic and washed-up poet. His mysterious disappearance one
evening and eventually discovered death is the reasons for the family's
reunion. The reasons for his implied suicide are a major plot point that
brings some of the family's dark past painfully back into the light. Short
scene at the opening. Toying with the idea of doing it on film.

*Violet Weston:* Anne McEvoy

*Barbara Fordham:* The oldest daughter of the Weston Family, between the
ages of 38 and 46. Mother of Jean and wife of Bill, though they are
currently separated. She is a college professor in Boulder, Colorado
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado>. She wants to save her
marriage, but has the intense need to control everything around her as it
falls apart.

*Bill Fordham:* Barbara's estranged husband and Jean's father, between the
ages of 42 and 50. A college professor, he has left his wife for a younger
woman named Cindy, one of his students, but wants to be there for his
family. His marriage is disintegrating and his patience is slowly running
thin.

*Jean Fordham:* Bill and Barbara's smart-tongued 14-year-old daughter. She
smokes pot and cigarettes, is a vegetarian, loves old movies, and is bitter
about her parents' split. More naive than she would like to believe.

*Ivy Weston: *The middle daughter of the Weston family, between the ages of
38 and 44. The only daughter to stay in Oklahoma, she teaches at the local
college and her calm and patient exterior hides a passionate woman who is
gradually growing cynical. She is secretly having an affair with her
"cousin", Little Charles, and plans to move to New York with him.

*Karen Weston:* The youngest daughter in the Weston family, between the
ages of 35 and 40. She is newly engaged to Steve, whom she considers the
"perfect man", and lives with him in Florida, planning to marry him soon.
Karen can talk of little else but her own happiness even at her father's
funeral, and she clearly chooses to lie to herself about her sleazy fiancé
rather than face the reality of not getting a happy ending.

*Mattie Fay Aiken: *Violet's sister, Charlie's wife and Little Charles'
mother, between the ages of 52 and 57. Just as jaded as her sister, Mattie
Fae constantly belittles her son and antagonizes her husband. Eventually
she reveals the major plot point that Beverly, not Charlie, is the real
father of Little Charles.

*Charlie Aiken: *Husband of Mattie Fae and the presumed father of Little
Charles, age 60. Charlie, a genial man, was a lifelong friend of Beverly.
He struggles to get Mattie Fae to respect Little Charles.

*Little Charles Aiken: *Son of Mattie Fae and Beverly, 37 years old—but,
like everyone else, he believes Charlie is his father. Unemployed and
clumsy, his mother calls him a "screw-up", which may be a self-fulfilling
prophecy. He is secretly having an affair with Ivy, who is revealed to
actually be his half-sister.

*Johnna Monevata:  *Cheyenne <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne> Indian
woman, between ages of 22 and 26, whom Beverly hires as a live-in
housekeeper shortly before he disappears. Violet is prejudiced against her,
but she wins over the other family members with her cooking skills, hard
work, and empathy. Johnna is the silent witness to much of the mayhem in
the house.

*Steve Heiderbrecht:* Karen's fiancé, between the ages of 42 and 50. A
businessman in Florida, (whose business, it is hinted, centers around the
Middle East and may be less than legitimate) and not the "perfect man" that
Karen considers him. He flirts with Jean throughout the play.

*Sheriff Deon Gilbeau:* A high-school classmate and former boyfriend of
Barbara's, between the ages of 38 and 47, who brings the news of Beverly's
suicide to the family.



The aforementioned roles are great and demand great actors!



*For more information please feel free to either email me, Martin Friedman,
at **martinfriedman98 at gmail.com*
<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=martinfriedman98@yahoo.com>
or call 216/233-5441*. *







"I'd bet the farm that no family has ever been as unhappy in as many
ways—and to such sensationally entertaining effect—as the Westons of
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, a fraught, densely plotted saga of an Oklahoma clan
in a state of near-apocalyptic meltdown. Fiercely funny and bitingly
sad…[a] turbo-charged tragicomedy…" *—NY Times*



"In Tracy Letts' ferociously entertaining play, the American dysfunctional
family drama comes roaring into the twenty-first century with eyes blazing,
nostrils flaring and fangs bared, laced with corrosive humor so darkly
delicious and ghastly that you're squirming in your seat even as you're
doubled-over laughing. A massive meditation on the cruel realities that
often belie standard expectations of conjugal and family accord—not to
mention on the decline of American integrity itself." *—Variety*



"Tracy Letts, in his Broadway debut, creates a hugely ambitious, highly
combustible saga that will leave you reeling. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY may make
you think twice about going home for the holidays…it's a great big
exhilarating gift." *—NY Daily News*



"Packed with unforgettable characters and dozens of quotable lines, AUGUST:
OSAGE COUNTY is a tensely satisfying comedy, interspersed with remarkable
evocations on the cruelties and (occasional) kindnesses of family life." *—NY
Sun*



"This is a play that will leave us laughing and wondering, shuddering and
smiling, long after the house lights come back on." *—NY Newsday*



"This original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the dinner
table with the great American family plays." *—Time Magazine*
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