<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-m_7714554929283533674SUGHeaderText" style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:28pt;margin:4px 0px 12px;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:28pt;color:rgb(177,124,54);padding-top:0px">My Mother#*!^%#! College Life Auditions</h1><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Avenue Arts Marketplace & Theatre announces auditions for MY MOTHER#*!^%#! COLLEGE LIFE</p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Located at 324 Cleveland Ave. NW Canton, Ohio 44702</p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">SYNOPSIS:What’s in the minds and hearts of college students today? In 40 monologues and a few dialogues, this multicultural ensemble questions everything they encounter: social justice and gender identity, self-awareness and relationship boundaries, future prospects and roommate etiquette. What emerges is a humorous and heartbreaking portrait of a new generation struggling with higher education’s promise of â€œpersonal transformation.” Structured in three acts, the play begins with matriculation and ends with graduation. The monologues in Act I, titled â€œGreat Expectations,” focus on encounters with new friends, financial aid, antidepressants, homework, sex, sleep deprivation and courses in physics and math. Act II, â€œParadise Lost,” features parties, budding and broken relationships, unexpected encounters with race and religion, sexual orientation and hitting rock bottom. Act III, â€œMetamorphoses,” portrays students emerging from four years of challenge and change with surprising insights, political convictions and plans for a scary, uncertain future. The mixture of serious and comedic monologues captures the extreme difficulty—sometimes absurd and at other times overwhelming—of self-discovery and community-building. While the monologues convey the sense that students often feel alone in their quest for great success or simply survival, the ensemble itself presents a very different truth—at least they’re alone together.</p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">My Mother#*!^%#! College Life is produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Directed by: David Lee</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"></p><div style="text-align:center">Auditions will be held on Tuesday, October 15th and Wednesday, October 16th from 7-9pm</div><div style="text-align:center">Callbacks (if necessary) will take place on Thursday, October 17th. </div><p></p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">All auditioners are asked to come prepared to cold read from the script. We also ask that you bring a current headshot and resume with you to auditions. </p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">IMPORTANT: Due to adult language and situations, all individuals under the age of 18 are required to be accompanied by a parent to auditions - permission slip required!</em></p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Rehearsals will begin on October 20th and generally run Sunday through Thursday evenings. </p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Performances: November 15th, 16th, 22nd and 23rd at 8pm </p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem"><font size="4"><b style="color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">TO SIGN UP FOR AUDITIONS, PLEASE VISIT: </b><font color="#5d010e" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><a href="https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4bafa82ca3fe3-mymother" target="_blank">https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4bafa82ca3fe3-mymother</a> </b></font></font></p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">CHARACTERS:</p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Ensemble of actors will perform the following monologues:</strong></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">College</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">A Greek Chorus</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Fish Face Girl</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Matthew 15:11</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">The F*ckers in Financial Aid</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Seek Immediate Medical Attention If</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Urine Trouble</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Roommate Rant</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Hear</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Wendell Berry and His Fucking Computers</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Thanks, Giving</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">The Dark</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Like Clockwork</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Black Hole</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">When Winter Came to Freshman Year</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Coming Back Alone</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Sure You Can Walk Me Home Even Though We Live in the Same Building</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">The Party</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Thirsty</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">A Sonnet</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Undress Me</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">D</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">The Three Commandments</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Devil on My Shoulder</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Taste</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">555 N. Limestone</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">I'm a Mess</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Touch</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Recovery</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Ditched</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Junebugs</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Fair Weather</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Chem Trails</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">"I'm Sorry, Hannah"</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Free Jack White</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">An Invocation</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Brannon, Brumley, Bro</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Breaking Up With Your University</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Change</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Gravity</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Changing Shape</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">I Think I'm Allergic to College</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Bedtime Prayer</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Where Good Habits Go to Die</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">21</li><li style="margin-left:15px;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box">Stroll</li></ul><div style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> <br class="gmail-m_7714554929283533674webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Seeking a diverse cast of actors of <span style="box-sizing:border-box">ALL AGES</span> for this production!!!</strong></p><div style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> <br class="gmail-m_7714554929283533674webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2rem;font-size:16px;color:rgb(93,1,14);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">All questions should be directed to <a href="mailto:avenueartstheatre@gmail.com" target="_blank">avenueartstheatre@gmail.com</a> </p></div>