The Tri-C Western campus announces auditions for The Art of Dining - by Tina Howe Directed by Bob Ellis February 12th at 6 pm and February 13th at 2 pm in the Western Campus Theatre located at 11000 Pleasant Valley Rd. in Parma, Ohio 44130. Please be ready to improvise and read from the script. Looking for 3 Men and 6 women of any ethnicities and types, college-aged and older (Tri-C High School PSEOP students welcome), to play: * Neurotic short story writer - Elizabeth Barrow Colt * Publisher - David Osslow * Couple - Hannah and Paul Galt * Friends - Herrick Simmons, Nessa Vox and Tony Stassio * Restaurant owners - Ellen (also the chef) and Cal Tri-C does consider casting community members, but our goal is to cast as many students as possible. There may be a small stipend available. There are no Equity contracts. Synopsis: Cal and Ellen are the owners and sole staff of a small, elegant gourmet restaurant. Cal's main preoccupation is paying back the $75,000 it cost to start it up, and that means packing in the customers. Chef Ellen is preoccupied with the food's quality and stopping Cal from sampling the ingredients. The diners act out their own private dramas over dinner and their conversations are exquisite burlesques of contemporary attitudes. There's a sensual middle aged couple who go into paroxysms of ecstasy just reading the menu and then there's three crass chic young career women. Finally, there's Elizabeth, a maladroit, shy and neurotic writer who's dining with her prospective publisher. Her actions and conversation are unintentionally hilarious and a delicious example of how not to act and what not to talk about while dining. Production dates: * April 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 at 8pm * April 24, May 1 at 2pm * April 29 at 11am