*Twin Masks Performing Arts Center (TMPAC)* is excited to announce auditions for the first show of its 2023 season, *Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*, by Edward Albee. Performance dates are Feb 3, 4, 10, 11, 17 and 18, 2023. Twin Masks Performing Arts Center is located at 9076 Church Street, Suites 2 & 3, Twinsburg, OH 44087. Twin Masks is a 501c3 organization. No AEA contracts are available. The director, D. Keith Stiver, will be holding auditions at Twin Masks on Sunday, November 20 from 1:00-3:00 and Monday, November 21 from 7:00-9:00. Auditions will be done via reading from the script. *THE STORY:* George, a professor at a small college, and his wife, Martha, have just returned home, drunk from a Saturday night party. Martha announces, amidst general profanity, that she has invited a young couple—an opportunistic new professor at the college and his shatteringly naïve new bride—to stop by for a nightcap. When they arrive the charade begins. The drinks flow and suddenly inhibitions melt. It becomes clear that Martha is determined to seduce the young professor, and George couldn’t care less. But underneath the edgy banter, which is crossfired between both couples, lurks an undercurrent of tragedy and despair. George and Martha’s inhuman bitterness toward one another is provoked by the enormous personal sadness that they have pledged to keep to themselves: a secret that has seemingly been the foundation for their relationship. In the end, the mystery in which the distressed George and Martha have taken refuge is exposed, once and for all revealing the degrading mess they have made of their lives.
From the Dramatists Play Service website.
*THE CHARACTERS: *as described in the script. *Martha:* a large, boisterous woman, fifty-two, looking somewhat younger. Ample, but not fleshy. *George:* Her husband, forty-six. Thin; hair going gray. *Honey:* Twenty-six, a petite blond girl, rather plain. *Nick:* Twenty-eight, her husband. Blond, well put-together, good-looking.