CHAGRIN VALLEY LITTLE THEATRE
FEBRUARY AUDITIONS

• Unless specified otherwise, all CVLT auditions are open to all and no roles are pre-cast.
• No appointments are required.
• Come prepared to read from the script.
• Headshots and acting resumes are welcome, but not required.
• CVLT does not offer union contracts and performers are volunteers.

THE TURN OF THE SCREW

by Jeffrey Hatcher
adapted from Henry James

Directed by Laurel Bryant

Monday February 3rd at 7pm
Tuesday February 4th at 7pm

Auditions and performances at
CVLT’s River Street Playhouse
56 River Street, Chagrin Falls

Actors should come prepared with a short dramatic monologue and to read from the script

Production Dates: May 1st – May 17th, 2020.
First rehearsal will be Monday March 30th.

• The Woman – (20’s – 30’s) – English Governess
• The Man (20 – 30’s) – Must seamlessly play the Narrator, The Uncle, Mrs. Grose (the housekeeper), and Miles (an 11 year old boy)

Based on the provocative Henry James’ 1898 novella, Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation gives this psychological thriller another turn of its own. A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children. But she is not their first governess. Her predecessor, Miss Jessel, drowned herself when she became pregnant by the sadistic valet, Peter Quint, who was himself found dead soon after, under mysterious circumstances. Now the new governess has begun to see the specters of Quint and Jessel haunting the children, and she must find a way to stop the fiends before it is too late. But are these ghosts real, or are they the product of her own fevered imagination? Filled with Suspense, horror and repressed sexuality, this piece is an actors dream!

WOMEN IN JEOPARDY!

by Wendy MacLeod

Directed by Kourtney Highland

Sunday, February 23 at 7 PM
Monday, February 24 at 7 PM

Production Dates: May 29 – June 13 (Matinee June 7)

Rehearsals begin: March 29th (Sunday – Thursday with some flexibility) 

Synopsis:  Thelma and Louise meets The First Wives Club in this fun and flirtatious comedy. Divorcées Mary and Jo are suspicious of their friend Liz’s new dentist boyfriend. He’s not just a weirdo; he may be a serial killer! After all, his hygienist just disappeared. Trading their wine glasses for spy glasses, imaginations run wild as the ladies try to discover the truth and save their friend in a hilarious off-road adventure.

• Mary: (40’s – 50’s) divorced, a librarian, motherly
• Jo:  (40’s – 50’s), Mary’s best friend, a publicist, sardonic
• Liz:  (40’s – 50’s) Mary’s other best friend, a Director of Admissions, boy-crazy, a bit of a drama queen.
• Amanda: (18 +) Liz’s daughter, an exceptionally pretty college student whose SATs were in the single digits
• Trenner: (18+) Amanda’s ex boyfriend, a snowboarder, sweet but not too bright, anxious to be found manly.
• Jackson: (40’s – 50’s) a dentist, Liz’s boyfriend, creepy, given to strange pronouncements about death and disease. He also doubles as the role of Sgt. Kirk Sponsullar, police sergeant, a John Wayne type, courtly, a man of few or entirely obfuscated words.