[NEohioPAL] final AUDITION DATE: Wednesday, 10/1 for "The Glass Menagerie" (directed by Fred Sternfeld)

[Fred Sternfeld via NEohioPAL]

*TrueNorth Cultural Arts in partnership with Lorain County Metro Parks is
pleased to announce…*



*TrueNorth Cultural Arts*


* Rick Fortney, Artistic Director **AUDITION INFORMATION*

*The Glass Menagerie *
*by Tennessee Williams *


* Directed by Fred Sternfeld **AUDITION INFORMATION*


* AUDITION DATES:* Saturday, September 27 from 11:00am - 2:00pm OR
Wednesday, October 1 from 6:30 - 7:30pm. Callbacks will be held on October
1 at 7:30pm.

*AUDITION APPOINTMENTS:* To make an audition appointment, please call
440-949-5200
x221 any day between the hours of 10:00am – 4:30pm.

*PERFORMANCE DATES:* May 1 - 17, 2015, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm and
Sundays at 3:00pm. There will also be Friday school matinees during the day.

* PREPARATION: *Please prepare a 1-2 minute memorized monologue OR you can
read a monologue from the script that will be provided to you when you
arrive for your audition appointment.

*ABOUT THE PLAY:* A drama of great tenderness, charm and beauty, THE GLASS
MENAGERIE is one of the most famous plays of the modern theatre.

*THE PLOT:* Amanda Wingfield is a southern belle past her prime, living
with two grown children in a small apartment in St. Louis. Amanda dreams of
a better life for her shy and crippled daughter Laura, so she pushes her
son, Tom, to find a “gentleman caller” for the girl. However, the arrival
of the gentleman caller sends shockwaves through the family and causes
cracks to form in the delicate fantasies that have kept them going.

*ROLES AVAILABLE: *Non-AEA actors shall receive a stipend. There are no AEA
contracts available for this production. 2 males, 2 females.


*Amanda Wingfield *Once a Southern belle who was the darling of her small
town's social scene, Amanda is now an abandoned wife and single mother
living in a small apartment in St. Louis. She dreams of her past and of her
daughter's future, but seems unwilling to recognize the painful harsh
realities of the present. She is a loving mother, but her demands make life
difficult for Laura and unbearable for Tom. Amanda finally senses Tom's
stirrings to leave and makes a deal with him - that if he can find a
suitable replacement for himself in the form of a husband for Laura, then
he can disappear for good. In all reality, then, Amanda is holding her son
hostage - threatening his future in order to ensure her own.


* Laura Wingfield *Crippled from childhood, Laura walks with the aid of a
leg brace. Laura is painfully shy, unable to face the world outside of the
tiny Wingfield apartment. She spends her time polishing her collection of
tiny glass animals, her "glass menagerie." Her presence is almost ghostly,
and her inability to connect with others outside of her family makes her
dependent on Tom and Amanda. Jim's nickname for her, "Blue Roses," suggests
both her odd beauty and her isolation, as blue roses exist nowhere in the
real world. She is in many ways like Rose, Tennessee Williams' real-life
sister. As a parallel to Rose, then, Laura becomes helpless and impossibly
passive - rendered to a fate entirely dictated by Tom's own decisions.
Laura's passivity, meanwhile, incurs a tremendous amount of guilt and
repressed rage in Tom, who has trouble leaving as long as he thinks of his
sister.



*Tom Wingfield *Tom is an aspiring poet who works in the Continental
Shoemakers warehouse. He is the narrator of the play and the action of the
play is framed by Tom's memory. Tom loves his mother and sister, but he
feels trapped at home. They are dependent on his wages and as long as he
stays with them he feels he can never have a life of his own. Nightly, he
disappears to "go to the movies." As the play continues, Tom feels
increasingly imprisoned and his mother begins to sense his stirrings. She
makes him a deal - as long as he finds a husband for Laura, he's free to
escape. But Tom is trapped by his own guilt for leaving and his own
repressed rage for being put in a position where his freedom comes at the
expense of his own conscience.




*Jim O'Connor *Jim is the long-awaited gentleman caller for Laura - and the
supposed prospect for her matrimony. He is outgoing, enthusiastic, and
believes in self-improvement. He kisses Laura and raises her hopes that
they might be together, before he finally reveals to her that he is
engaged. Tom describes him as a person more connected to the real world
than any of the other characters, but Jim is also a symbol for the
"expected something that we live for."

*REHEARSALS:* There will be 4 weeks of rehearsal from April 1 - 30, 2015.
Rehearsal dates and times will be weekday evenings, Saturday mornings or
afternoons and/or Sunday afternoons or evenings 2 - 5 times per week. All
rehearsals will be held at TrueNorth Cultural Arts at French Creek Nature &
Arts Center, 4530 Colorado Avenue, Sheffield Village, Ohio.

* DIRECTOR:* Fred's most recent productions for TrueNorth, The Miracle
Worker and West Side Story, both won broadwayworld.com awards
<http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/2013-BroadwayWorld-Cleveland-Awards-Winners-Announced-Zach-Pytel-Chris-Cowan-and-More-20140121>.
For more information about Fred Sternfeld go to this link:
http://www.fredsternfeld.com/

*QUESTIONS?* Contact director Fred Sternfeld at fsternfeld at gmail.com.

TrueNorth Cultural Arts is located within the French Creek Nature & Arts
Center / 4530 Colorado Ave / Sheffield Village / 44054



-- 
Fred Sternfeld
http://www.fredsternfeld.com
216-360-0718-home
216-496-6087-cell
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