<span style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Cleveland Public Theatre announces auditions for <br>
</span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Little Box<br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Little Box is an annual series that offers audiences a chance to hear staged readings of new works by local playwrights. Little Box runs from November 5 – November 15 in CPT’s Storefront Studio.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Auditions for 3 of the 2009 Little Box productions will be held:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Sunday, October 11<sup>th</sup><br>
1:00pm – 4:00pm<br>Parish Hall at CPT (located just east of CPT’s Gordon Square Theatre, next to the Church at CPT)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Auditions will consist of readings from the following 3 scripts. If you have any questions or require any additional information, please contact the director directly using the email addresses below:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">History of Life</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> by Becky Cummings </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Director: Becky Cummings <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:becky.cummings@xxxxxxxxx" target="_blank">becky.cummings@xxxxxxxxx</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Sybil: A PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology. Smart, suspicious and skeptical, Sybil finds she does have a heart and that in order to love, it needs to be broken....wide open.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Nick: A man in his 50s. An icon of the American Cowboy who sells now sells Mary Kay and works at Wal-mart. Living out on the edge of the American Frontier his whole lif, Nick is a Sam Shepard-like dark ominous clown. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">The Doppelganger, a play in eighteen paintings</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">, by Deborah Magid</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Director: Karen Sabo <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:karen.a.sabo@xxxxxxxxx" target="_blank">karen.a.sabo@xxxxxxxxx</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Berthe Morisot: 30s CAST </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Edma Morisot Pontillon: 30s, Berthe's sister and best friend</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Edouard/Eugene Manet: mid 30s-early 40s, Edouard is a brilliant manic/depressive, Eugene is a good-hearted dilettante</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Mme Morisot: mid-50s, Berthe's and Edma's mother CAST</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Mother/Tongue</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">, by Claire Robinson May</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Director: Danielle Hisey <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:danielle.hisey@xxxxxxxxx" target="_blank">danielle.hisey@xxxxxxxxx</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Margot: early 40s</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Jane: Margot’s best friend, mid-30s</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Tom: Margot’s husband, mid-30s</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Beverly: Margot’s mother-in-law; Tom’s mother</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Hannah: Margot and Tom’s daughter, 14</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Tyler: Margot and Tom’s son, 16</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Synopses:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">History of Life</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> Reading November 5</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">History of Life</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> is about an adopted Evolutionary Biologist who takes a road trip in the American SouthWest in order to meet members of her birth family. The London Bridge, Wal-mart, Elvis Presely, Cowboys and Indians, Tyrannosaurus Rex Tracks. Science versus religion, nature verses nurture all comes to a head at the Four Corners Monument, where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona come together in a point. Literally. </span></p>
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