1970
Written By Scott Lax
Directed By Brian Westerley
Audition Dates:
June 13th & 14th at 7PM
Performance
Dates: September 22nd - October 1st.
Rehearsals will start on or around August 6th.
Both a love story and a wartime chronicle, this powerful
play reveals the effects of the Vietnam War on a group of
friends living in a small town in Northeast Ohio. The play
opens in September of 1970, four months after the shootings
at nearby Kent State of May 4, 1970, and months before the
Vietnam War draft lottery of 1971. The script is based on
Lax's novel, The Year
That Trembled.
The
young men must examine their views of war andconsider the
fate that awaits them; the young women and other townspeople
face the possibility of losing their husbands, boyfriends
and friends. Each member of the group embarks on a personal
search that will bring very real and very adult conflict and
pain and strip away their youthful naivete.
As
the play hurtles toward life-changing consequences, the
enormity of this war contrasted with the microcosm of one
small town exposes the desires, the betrayals, the loves
& the ability to forgive, of characters who are at war
within themselves.
ALL ETHNICITIES & GENDER IDENTITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO
AUDITION
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the
script. Please bring a resume and headshot with you to the
audition.
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Auditions &
Performances at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, 40 River
Street, Chagrin Falls OH
CVLT is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. All performers are
voluntary.