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FEBRUARY 10 & 11 | 7 PM</h2>
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Will Eno</strong></p>
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Dates: April 26 – May 11, 2019</strong><br style="box-sizing:
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Directed
by Roger Atwell</strong></p>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Auditions, Performances
at CVLT’s River Street Playhouse – 56 River St.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.CVLT.org/auditions">www.CVLT.org/auditions</a><br>
440-247-8955<br>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">MIDDLETOWN is often
compared to Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN. The plays share some
structural and thematic similarities, but MIDDLETOWN is not Eno’s
attempt to write an updated version of Wilder’s play. If anything,
Eno owes as much as much to Samuel Beckett or Edward Albee as he
does to Wilder for the theatrical influences on this play.
Middletown, the village where the play takes place, is a kind of
metaphor for that time between life’s two great mysteries – birth
and death. It is what occurs between those life defining events,
how and with what we fill the middle part, which MIDDLETOWN
explores.</p>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The play is not plot
driven. It consists of a series of vignettes in which many
ordinary citizens of the town reveal the events of their lives and
the qualities of their personalities which make up the web of the
play. The language of the script comes across as a casual,
stream-of-consciousness flow, while simultaneously bordering on
the poetic. What is this play about? It is about a mighty big
question: What is the nature of our existence?</p>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Winner of the 2010
Horton Foote Award, Most Promising New Play</p>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The play has over 20
characters, played by a cast of 12 (6F/6M). Five main characters
will be played by actors who play no other parts. The rest of the
roles will be double or triple-cast among the remaining members of
the actors in the ensemble.</p>
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<li>Unless specified otherwise, all CVLT auditions are open to all
and no roles are pre-cast.</li>
<li>No appointments are required.<br>
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<li>Come prepared to read from the script.<br>
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<li>Headshots and acting resumes are welcome, but not required.<br>
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<li>CVLT does not offer union contracts and performers are
volunteers.<br>
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Characters</strong></p>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cop – male, 30s-50s: The Cop
is an authority figure in Middletown. He wants to enforce the
laws, and by doing so, keep the chaos of the world in check. His
official responsibilities in the community are tempered and
complicated by the stress and rewards of events in his personal
live.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mrs. Swanson – female, late
30s: New to Middletown, Mrs. Swanson has moved to town with her
husband to start a new life…and a new family. She is pregnant
and hopes the joy of birth will help fill the emptiness which
seems to be growing in her marriage.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">John Dodge – male, late
30s-40s: John is the local handyman, but his range of skills
doesn’t seem to have a focal point. His life, so far, has been a
continuing search for something worth committing to. Low
self-esteem is all that keeps him from being the most charming
of fellows.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mechanic – male, late 20s-40s:
He drinks a little too much. He pops a few pills, when he can
get them. He doesn’t respond well to the demands of a steady
job, but he has had one glorious moment in his youth; a glory he
might still recapture.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Librarian – female, 50s-60s:
The Librarian is an arbiter of both knowledge and wisdom. Folks
with questions look to her for answers, and folks with problems
trust her to provide solutions. It would be tempting to see her
character as a small town cliché, but before that happens; a
little more time needs to be spent in the research section.</li>
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Astronauts, doctors, nurses, homemakers, writers, landscapers,
janitors, tourists: Any and all of the men and women who make up
Middletown. Most of these characters appear in only one scene, but
each scene is self-contained – a series of mini-plays which
collectively make up the whole. Every character contributes to the
big themes of the play.</p>
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