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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">TrueNorth Cultural Arts in partnership with Lorain County Metro Parks is pleased to announce…<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">TrueNorth Cultural Arts</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
<strong><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Rick Fortney, Artistic Director</span></i></strong><br>
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</span></b><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">AUDITION INFORMATION</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Glass Menagerie<br>
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">by Tennessee Williams<br>
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Directed by Fred Sternfeld<br>
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</span></i><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AUDITION INFORMATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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AUDITION DATES:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Saturday, September 27 from 11:00am - 2:00pm OR Wednesday, October 1 from 7:00pm – 9:30pm. Callbacks will be held on Saturday, October 4 in the afternoon.<br>
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<b>AUDITION APPOINTMENTS:</b> To make an audition appointment, please call 440-949-5200 x221 seven days a week between the hours of 10:00am – 4:30pm.
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<b>PERFORMANCE DATES:</b> May 1 - 17, 2015, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3:00pm. There will also be Friday school matinees during the day.<br>
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PREPARATION: </b>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.<br>
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<b>ABOUT THE PLAY:</b> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">A drama of great tenderness, charm and beauty, THE GLASS MENAGERIE is one of the most famous plays of the modern theatre.<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">THE PLOT:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> 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.<br>
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<b>ROLES AVAILABLE: </b>Non-AEA actors shall receive a stipend. There are no AEA contracts available for this production. 2 males, 2 females.<br>
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<b><span style="color:black">Amanda Wingfield<br>
</span></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">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.<br>
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Laura Wingfield<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Tom Wingfield<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Jim O'Connor<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">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."</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
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<b>REHEARSALS:</b> 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 4 - 6 times per week. All rehearsals will be held at French
Creek Nature & Arts Center, 4530 Colorado Avenue, Sheffield Village, Ohio. <br>
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DIRECTOR:</b> For more information about director Fred Sternfeld go to this link: http://www.fredsternfeld.com/<br>
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<b>QUESTIONS?</b> Contact director Fred Sternfeld at fsternfeld@gmail.com.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TrueNorth Cultural Arts is located within the French Creek Nature & Arts Center / 4530 Colorado Ave / Sheffield Village / 44054<o:p></o:p></p>
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