AUDITION DOUBLE-HEADER COMING APRIL 6TH & 7TH!
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Written by Edward Albee
Directed by Robert Buckingham
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a play first staged in October 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of the middle-aged couple Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger newlywed couple Nick and Honey as guests and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship. Martha and Geroge are a malevolent codependent couple on the brink of self-discovery who have spent their entire marriage masking their pain and sorrow behind seething anger, and mind games in a constant power struggle. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is funny, uncomfortable, and moving, often at the same time.
The three-act play normally takes just under three hours to perform, with two 10-minute intermissions. The title is a pun on the song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” from Walt Disney’s Three Little Pigs (1933), substituting the name of the celebrated English author Virginia Woolf. Martha and George repeatedly sing this version of the song throughout the play.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won both the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1962–1963 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. It is frequently revived on the modern stage. The film adaptation was released in 1966, written by Ernest Lehman, directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis. The Tillamook Association for the Performing Arts is honored to present this celebrated piece.
The audition packet can be downloaded HERE
The Cast of Characters:
Martha – A loud boisterous woman, formidable to any opponent.
George –An intellectual quieter man, often coming up short against Martha.
Nick – A Well put together, good looking young man. A gentleman.
Honey – A sweet, rather naïve young woman; too trusting in most situations.
Four Old Broads on the High Seas
Written by Leslie Kimbell
Directed by Chris Chiola
Get ready to set sail with your favorite Old Broads. Yes…they’re back again and ready for a Sassy Senior’s cruise to the Bahamas. Wedding bells are ringing, and the topless sun deck is calling. Throw in a murder mystery, a fabulous drag queen and a crazy costume party and you’re in for a laugh-a-minute, side splitting laugh out loud night of fun! Those interested are asked to audition with a prepared monologue. If you’d like a suggested monologue, please email the director at chiola1970@yahoo.com.
The Cast of Characters:
*Beatrice Shelton – Senior, bawdy former burlesque dancer
*Eaddy Mae Clayton – Senior, desperately religious
*Sam Smith – Senior, former Elvis Impersonator and fiancée to Imogene
*Imogene Fletcher – Senior, sassy and bold fiancée of Sam
*Maude Jenkins – Senior, dingbat wannabe beauty queen
*These characters are returning from the previous show and are already cast
Open Roles Available for Casting:
Herbert – Fifties/Sixties, Slick and overly tan villain
Captain Sheldon Sterling – Fifties/Sixties, ship’s captain
Steven Dupree/Miss Tequila Mockingbird – Twenties/Forties, luggage porter by day and drag queen entertainer by night.
Jim Rockstone/Melvin Trickle – Thirties/Forties, bumbling ship’s undercover detective
Horace Bumpus – Senior, rickety and browbeaten husband
Edna Bumpus – Senior, rickety and hard of hearing wife
