[NEohioPAL] AUDITIONS: World Premiere of THINGS AS THEY ARE

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PLAYWRIGHTS LOCAL ANNOUNCES

OPEN AUDITIONS

FOR THE MAY 2017 WORLD PREMIERE OF

*Things As They Are*
Written by David Todd
Original score composed by Ben Chasny
Directed by Anjanette Hall

SEEKING

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   ELSIE STEVENS (Female, 35-50): Spouse of poet Wallace Stevens. Enters as
   a young beauty, exits as an isolated housewife. Orderly and often
   spectral.



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   MALE ENSEMBLE MEMBER (20-35): Performing multiple roles



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   MALE ENSEMBLE MEMBER (25-40): Performing multiple roles


AUDITION SESSIONS

-- Wednesday, January 11, 4:00 - 6:00 pm

-- Thursday, January 12, 4:00 - 6:00 pm

AUDITION LOCATION

Slovenian Workmen’s Home
15335 Waterloo Road, Cleveland, OH 44110

CALLBACKS

If necessary, callbacks will be on Monday, January 16 at a location TBA.

PRODUCTION INFO

This is a non-Equity, paid production. Performances run May 12 - 28, 2017
at Reinberger Auditorium’s upstairs loft. Rehearsals in Cleveland begin
April 3.

DETAILS

-- Appointments are suggested, but not required.

-- Actors will read sides from the play.

-- Please bring a current headshot, resume, and calendar, and leave time
for paperwork.

For appointments or questions, please email fmamlin13 at mail.bw.edu.

SYNOPSIS

Things as They Are is a meditation on the life and work of American poet
and insurance executive Wallace Stevens. A collage of scenes, poems,
movement, and original music, Things as They Are looks past the stock image
of Stevens as an aloof attorney to find a striving son, an uncertain
husband and father, a part-time comedian, and a full-time Modern giant. The
play tracks its subject from run-ins with Marcel Duchamp in the 1910s to
Ernest Hemingway in the 1930s, from crises with wife Elsie to
reconciliations with daughter Holly, and from his beloved Pennsylvania
countryside to his exotic refuge of Key West. Through a series of linked
vignettes, it reveals the real Wallace Stevens to be a man of great
insight, contradictions, whimsy, and desire.

Things as They Are was written by David Todd, and includes excerpts from
Wallace Stevens’ original work by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf.
Directed by Anjanette Hall, this world premiere features an original score
composed and performed by Ben Chasny, the creative figure behind the
celebrated group Six Organs of Admittance.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Playwrights Local is a theater company based in Cleveland. Billed as a
playwrights’ center, the organization’s goal is to provide a home for
dramatic writing in Northeast Ohio. They offer classes and workshops,
produce original plays, provide networking opportunities, and engage the
community through outreach projects. Tax-deductible contributions to this
501(c)(3) group can be made at http://playwrightslocal.org/donate/.
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