Directed by Catherine Shannon
Auditions: March 17th & 18th @7pm
Performances: May 16th-25th
Auditions will take place in the form of cold reads. Actors will have time to look over the sides before their audition.
Casting Breakdown:
Actors of all ages (18+), ethnicities, races, and disabilities are encouraged to audition. All characters are female-presenting and the play is consisted of eleven monologues.
- 15 MINUTES- (20s-30s F) An insecure actress prepares in her dressing room while musing about the imbalanced relationship between audience and performer and the “self-lacerating exposure” of entertainment, wishing for a deeper connection with the people watching her.
- SCRAPS- (30s-50s F) A housewife reveals her escapist double-life as the Patchwork Girl from the Wizard of Oz books. Her maladaptive daydreaming transports her into the lands of Oz, but increasingly struggles to navigate between reality and fairytale.
- CLEAR GLASS MARBLES- (30s-50s F) A woman recounts the time leading up to her mother’s death and the lessons it gave her, learning to let go of each day with the drop of a clear glass marble.
- AUDITION- (20s-30s F) A jittery young actress exhibits increasing desperation to be cast, going to violent and threatening lengths to secure her spotlight.
- RODEO- (30s-50s F) An ex-rodeo star reflects on the commercialization of rodeo that ended her career, and the monetization of passion.
- TWIRLER- (20s-30s F) A champion baton twirler relays her rise to glory and expresses the cathartic revelations of twirling, arguing to the audience the unparalleled spiritual connection of “throwing yourself up to God.”
- LAMPS- (50s-70s F) An older woman responds to her progressive lonliness and questions of aging with the patterns and versatility of light, filling her home with lamps to conduct shadows.
- HANDLER- (20s-30s F) A Pentecostal Holiness snake handler presents to the audience her demanding faith and the threat of being bit if you don’t have spirit.
- DRAGONS- (30s-40s F) A woman giving birth takes pride in her life’s tenacious abnormality through the pains of labour and a doctor “affronted by the extraordinary” of her little dragon.
- FRENCH FRIES- (50s-70s F) A homeless woman dreaming of living in a McDonald’s balances humor with solemnity as she affirms plastic as God’s proof of eternity.
- MARKS- (50s-70s F) Having spent too long “unmarked by life,” a woman adorned in scars and tattoos declares the importance of living your life upon your skin- and her mission to help others’ lives truly start.
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