[NEohioPAL] Weathervane Auditions - RELATIVELY SPEAKING

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Weathervane Playhouse is holding auditions for RELATIVELY SPEAKING by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Eileen Moushey. 

Open Call Auditions: Sunday, August 24, Monday, August 25, 2014
Start time:  7:00pm, must be signed in by 8:00pm.  
Callbacks (if needed)  Tuesday, August 26, 7pm.  

Cast Requirements.  Please note that ALL characters have British accents.   Ages are flexible, but must be relative to other characters.
Women: SHEILA, mid 50s–mid 60s;  GINNY, mid 20s–mid 30s 
Men:        PHILIP, mid 50s-mid 60s;    GREG: mid 20s–mid 30s 

Audition scenes are available on the Weathervane website and full scripts for perusal purposes are available at the box office.  (330-836-2626).
Please bring your calendar with you to auditions - you will be asked to list your conflicts.

Performances dates are OCTOBER 9- OCTOBER 26.   Thursdays at 7:30pm; Friday & Saturdays at 8pm; Sunday matinees at 2:30.  

Contact Director Eileen Moushey with questions.  emoushey at hotmail.com   

ABOUT THE PLAY 
 Alan Ayckbourn's RELATIVELY SPEAKING was first produced in the late 60s and launched the career of this prolific playwright.    Since then it's been a regional staple throughout Britain but didn't return to the national stage until a 2013  revival was produced in the West End and toured nationally.   (Sample reviews below.)

While wildly popular in Britain, RELATIVELY SPEAKING did not get a solid American production.   It never played on Broadway, despite numerous attempts that always fell through, including one production that, disastrously,  attempted to "Americanize" it.    

That won't be happening in the Weathervane production!    British it is, and British it will be played!   


"This is one of the most cleverly constructed of Ayckbourn's 77 plays because it relies on cross purposes never being discovered, other than by the audience, until the final scenes."  Lizzie Loveridge, Curtain Up; Full review 

"Seeing it again after all these years, in Lindsay Posner's witty production, I was reminded of the play's brilliance as a theatrical construct.  Although lighter in texture than many of the 70 or so plays Ayckbourn has written since, it contains fascinating intimations of the middle-class marital angst that was to become his speciality."  Michael Billington, The Guardian; Full Review

". . . That breakthrough production in 1967 starred Celia Johnson, Michael Hordern and the young Richard Briers, and Noël Coward generously sent a congratulatory telegram to the young author, congratulating him ‘on a beautifully constructed and very funny comedy’  That verdict still seems bang on the money."  Charles Spencer, The Telegraph; Full Review


 
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