Who: none too fragile theatre What: *Auditions* - An Impending Rupture of the Belly by Matt Pelfrey (Dark Comedy) Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz (Serio-Comedy) When: *Saturday, April 8th from 2pm - 6pm* Where: 1835 Merriman Rd. Akron 44313 (Enter through Pub Bricco) *How: Please RSVP via email at sjsderry@gmail.com <sjsderry@gmail.com> / Arrive Early-Leave Early!* *Cold Reads from scripts which will be available at none too fragile theatre @ 1pm.* *Audition Details:* Show: An Impending Rupture of the Belly by Matt Pelfrey (Dark Comedy) Director: Sean Derry Performance Dates: June 23rd - July 8th (10 performances) Rehearsal Dates: May 25th - June 22nd (Sun.,Mon.,Tues. & Thursdays) $$$$: AEA Special Appearance Contracts Available / Non-AEA = $500 Stipend Already Cast Roles: Clay Stilts - Andrew Narten Eugene - Mark Rabant Ray Stilts - Benjamin Gregg Adam/The Prisoner - Robert Grant *NEEDED ROLES*: *Terri Stilts - Female - 30's - Any Ethnicity - Emotionally Strong, no nonsense wife of Clay who is expecting t**heir first child.* * Doug - Male - 20's-40's - Any Ethnicity - Clay Stilts neighbor, who's dog can't be curbed is the obsession & victim of Clay. Verbally Sassy & highly comedic.* About the Script: How far would YOU go to defend your family? Clay Stilts desires to fortify his house in preparation for both a new baby and the apocalypse he's convinced is just around the corner. His obsessions are sidetracked when a slowly escalating battle with a neighbor who refuses to curb his dog explodes in an impulsive act of violence. In one reckless moment, Clay's world spins out of control, becoming a microcosm for a global struggle against threats to our security, both real and imagined. *"Pelfrey is undeniably talented ... a gripping, funny play."* -Los Angeles Times *"Matt Pelfrey's galvanizing black comedy resembles those nightmares that nag at one's psyche the following day - too off-kilter to accept as reality, yet infused with imagery too haunting to dismiss ... Pelfrey's thought-provoking work is mesmeric from the first moment to the last."* -Backstage *"Pelfrey has a gift for oddball concepts and sardonic dialogue." -Variety * *"A brilliant little bulletin from the paranoia frontier."* -L A City Beat *Audition Details:* Show: Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz (Serio-Comedy) Director: Sean Derry Performance Dates: September 15th - September 30th (10 Performances) Rehearsal Dates: August 14th - September 14th (Sun., Mon.,Tues. & Thursdays) $$$$: AEA Special Appearance Contract Available / Non-AEA = $500 Stipend Already Cast Roles: Ben - Robert Branch Salyer - Rachel Lee Kolis Lorraine - Anne McEvoy Young Soldier - Nate Homolka *Needed Role: * *Jeeter - Male - 50's - White - Ben's friend & Salyer's boyfriend.* About the Script: Ben and Jeeter fought in Vietnam, and for thirty years they have remained united by a war that divided the nation. Joined by Jeeter's new girlfriend and her off-the-grid whiskey-drinking mother, these friends gather at Ben's remote trailer for one final hurrah at the turn of the New Millennium. As the night deepens, the past makes a return appearance, and its many ghosts come flickering to life. This is a fierce, funny, haunting play about a friendship that ends and a war that does not. *"Last of the Boys is to the Vietnam war what Angels In America **was to the AIDS crisis."* *—Talkin' Broadway*. *"Dietz has conjured the 1960s and the war in Vietnam better than any playwright has managed to date. Ghosts appear and disappear in this play…and these ghosts are in many ways permanent residents in the bodies and psyches of those who fought in the war, as well as those who became its indirect casualties. Their presence creates a restless, burning, grief-stricken quality—but it doesn't prevent the eruption of great bursts of pitch black humor; comic explosions that detonate from time to time as if someone had just tripped over a forgotten hand grenade."* *—Chicago Sun-Times*. *"Last of the Boys is shattering, and its careful revelations and haunting imagery stick with you long after you leave the theater."* *—Windy City Times*. *"Steven Dietz's new play is passionate, funny, altogether a knockout. The indictment of the war in Vietnam is intense and deeply personal…but the play is not a soapbox rant. LAST OF THE BOYS is about the way the past creates the present and the present repeats the past. The final image of Ben ironing an American flag is wrenching. If only we could get the wrinkles out."* *—Philadelphia City Paper*.