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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Auditions for Agatha Christie’s <i>Black Coffee</i> at Coach House Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>732 W. Exchange St., Akron, OH 44302<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Directed by Andrew Cruse<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Open calls:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Saturday, 10/13 at 1pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Friday, 10/19 at 7pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Run dates: January 24 to February 17, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, Sunday matinees<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Characters:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>(2) women, 20’s to 30’s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>(1) woman, 60+<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>(10) men, 20’s to 70’s, including Christie’s favorite detective, Hercule Poirot, as well as various family patriarchs, ne’er-do-wells, police inspectors, butlers and wicked visitors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please select and prepare to read one or two short scenes from the play, which feature the character/s for which you’d like to be considered. (Reader provided.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This little known mystery will surprise and delight Christie fans. The story concerns a physicist named Sir Claude Amory who has come up with a formula for an atom bomb (even though <i>Black Coffee</i> was written in 1934). In the first act, Sir Claude is poisoned (in his coffee, naturally) and Hercule Poirot is called in to solve the case. He does so after many wonderful twists and turns in true Christie tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The murder mystery is the most popular tradition of the season for Coach House audiences. Come be a part of it!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rehearsals generally scheduled Sunday through Thursday evenings, 7-10 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Contact </span><a href="mailto:directors@coachhousetheatre.com"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>directors@coachhousetheatre.com</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> for further information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>