<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Who: none too fragile theatre</span><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What: <b>Auditions</b> - An Impending Rupture of the Belly by Matt Pelfrey (Dark Comedy)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz (Serio-Comedy)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When: <b><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://6" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Saturday, April 8th from 2pm - 6pm</a></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Where: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">1835 Merriman Rd. Akron 44313</a> (Enter through <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="misc" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Pub Bricco</a>)</span></div><div dir="auto"><b><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How: Please RSVP via email at <a href="mailto:sjsderry@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">sjsderry@gmail.com</a> / Arrive Early-Leave Early!</i></b></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <b><i><u>Cold Reads from scripts which will be available at none too fragile theatre <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://10" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="10" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">@ 1pm</a>.</u></i></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><b><u style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></u></b></div><div dir="auto"><b><u style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></u></b></div><div dir="auto"><b><u style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Audition Details:</u></b></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Show: An Impending Rupture of the Belly by Matt Pelfrey (Dark Comedy)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Director: Sean Derry</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Performance Dates: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">June 23rd - July 8th</a> (10 performances)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Rehearsal Dates: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">May 25th - June 22nd</a>(Sun.,Mon.,Tues. & Thursdays)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> $$$$: AEA Special Appearance Contracts Available / Non-AEA = $500 Stipend </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Already Cast Roles: Clay Stilts - Andrew Narten</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Eugene - Mark Rabant</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Ray Stilts - Benjamin Gregg</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Adam/The Prisoner - Robert Grant</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <b><u>NEEDED ROLES</u></b>: <b><i>Terri Stilts</i> - Female - 30's - Any Ethnicity - Emotionally Strong, no nonsense wife of Clay who is expecting t</b><b>heir first child.</b></span></div><div dir="auto"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <i>Doug</i> - Male - 20's-40's - Any Ethnicity - Clay Stilts neighbor, who's dog can't be curbed is the obsession & victim of Clay. Verbally Sassy & highly comedic.</b></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> About the Script: </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> How far would YOU go to defend your family? Clay Stilts desires to fortify his house in preparation for both a new baby and the apocalypse he's convinced is just around the corner. His obsessions are sidetracked when a slowly escalating battle with a neighbor who refuses to curb his dog explodes in an impulsive act of violence. In one reckless moment, Clay's world spins out of control, becoming a microcosm for a global struggle against threats to our security, both real and imagined. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>"Pelfrey is undeniably talented ... a gripping, funny play."</i> -Los Angeles Times </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>"Matt Pelfrey's galvanizing black comedy resembles those nightmares that nag at one's psyche the following day - too off-kilter to accept as reality, yet infused with imagery too haunting to dismiss ... Pelfrey's thought-provoking work is mesmeric from the first moment to the last."</i> -Backstage </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>"Pelfrey has a gift for oddball concepts and sardonic dialogue." -Variety </i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><br></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>"A brilliant little bulletin from the paranoia frontier."</i> -L A City Beat</span><div style="margin: 2px 0px 0px;"></div></div><div dir="auto"><span style="line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><b><u style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Audition Details:</u></b></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Show: Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz (Serio-Comedy)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Director: Sean Derry</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Performance Dates: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://22" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="22" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 0.258824);">September 15th - September 30th</a> (10 Performances)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Rehearsal Dates: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://23" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="23" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 0.258824);">August 14th - September 14th</a>(Sun., Mon.,Tues. & Thursdays)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> $$$$: AEA Special Appearance Contract Available / Non-AEA = $500 Stipend</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Already Cast Roles: Ben - Robert Branch</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Salyer - Rachel Lee Kolis</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Lorraine - Anne McEvoy</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Young Soldier - Nate Homolka</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <u style="font-weight: bold;">Needed Role: </u> <b><i>Jeeter - </i>Male - 50's - White - Ben's friend & Salyer's boyfriend.</b> </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> About the Script: </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b> </b> Ben and Jeeter fought in Vietnam, and for thirty years they have remained united by a war that divided the nation. Joined by Jeeter's new girlfriend and her off-the-grid whiskey-drinking mother, these friends gather at Ben's remote trailer for one final hurrah at the turn of the New Millennium. As the night deepens, the past makes a return appearance, and its many ghosts come flickering to life. This is a fierce, funny, haunting play about a friendship that ends and a war that does not.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>"Last of the Boys is to the Vietnam war what <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Angels In America</span> </i><i>was to the AIDS crisis."</i> <b>—Talkin' Broadway</b>. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>"Dietz has conjured the 1960s and the war in Vietnam better than any playwright has managed to date. Ghosts appear and disappear in this play…and these ghosts are in many ways permanent residents in the bodies and psyches of those who fought in the war, as well as those who became its indirect casualties. Their presence creates a restless, burning, grief-stricken quality—but it doesn't prevent the eruption of great bursts of pitch black humor; comic explosions that detonate from time to time as if someone had just tripped over a forgotten hand grenade."</i> <b>—Chicago Sun-Times</b>. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>"Last of the Boys is shattering, and its careful revelations and haunting imagery stick with you long after you leave the theater."</i> <b>—Windy City Times</b>.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <i>"Steven Dietz's new play is passionate, funny, altogether a knockout. The indictment of the war in Vietnam is intense and deeply personal…but the play is not a soapbox rant. LAST OF THE BOYS is about the way the past creates the present and the present repeats the past. The final image of Ben ironing an American flag is wrenching. If only we could get the wrinkles out."</i> <b>—Philadelphia City Paper</b>. </span></div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>