[NEohioPAL] LCCC Theatre ?The Diviners? Additional Auditions

Jeremy Benjamin via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Mon Sep 14 19:37:18 PDT 2015


When: 
Wednesday, September 16 at 7:00 pm

Where: 
Lorain County Community College
Cirigliano Studio Theatre
1005 N. Abbe Road
Elyria, Ohio  44035

What:
LCCC Theatre seeking male actors to audition for the following roles:

BUDDY LAYMAN – an idiot-boy. Buddy is 14 years old. He needs to be
physically fit and very agile. Ideally, the actor playing this role will
be small of stature. 

C.C. SHOWERS – a backsliding preacher. C.C. is 30. For 12 years he has
been a hellfire and damnation preacher in Kentucky. He discovered that
“thinking and preaching don’t mix” so he left that life and has been
walking and thinking for three months searching for a new life.

MELVIN WILDER – a farmhand. 21 - 22 A young man who “knows it all”.
After all, he has been through the Army’s basic training - twice!

DEWEY MAPLES – a young farmhand. 17 - 18 Young , impressionable. He is
easily led by Melvin.

According to the Samuel French catalogue, “…this marvelously theatrical
play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a
disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the
boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother
in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher,
set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is
determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the
boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to
persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash.
When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him,
the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism. They descend on the
event and, in the confusion, the boy drowns.”


Please contact Jeremy Benjamin at 440-366-7120 or jbenjami at lorainccc.edu



Jeremy K. Benjamin
Director of Theatre
Production Manager/Technical Director/Designer
Lorain County Community College
1005 N. Abbe Rd.
Elyria,  OH  44035
(440) 366-7120
jbenjami at lorainccc.edu





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