Magnolia Theatre Company, Dayton’s feminist theatre company, announces auditions for the remainder of their 2023-24 season.
Auditions will be held January 5-6, 2024 at the Metropolitan Arts Center 126 N. Main St. Dayton, OH 45402, Studio A Second Floor. Auditions will consist of readings from the script. Please register with this audition form. Sides are provided in form.
Callbacks will be held on January 6 from 1-3pm (only as needed).
Personnel: Gina Handy Minyard (Founding Artistic Director and Director – FIVE LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE
FIVE LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE by Andrew Habgood and Evan Linder
Rehearsal start date: March 1
Rehearsal frequency: 3-4 days a week throughout March (weekdays will be evenings, weekends will be mid afternoon) March 1,2,8,9,12-16,20-23, 26-30 *subject to change
Tech: April 1-3, 2024 evenings
Performance dates: April 4-7, 2024 PNC Arts Annex (5 performances)
Director: Gina Handy Minyard
Breakdown:
Description: It’s 1956 and The Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. As the assembled “widows’ await the announcement of the society’s prize-winning quiche, the atomic bomb sirens sound! Has the Communist threat come to pass? How will the “widows” respond as their idyllic town and lifestyle faces attacks?
Content Disclosure: All roles require closed mouth lip to lip contact and highly physical comedy- (intimacy direction provided). The play discusses/portrays the following topics: sexuality, both lesbian and heterosexual.
- LULIE STANWYCK – President
- WREN ROBIN – Events chairwoman
- VERONICA “VERN” SCHULTZ – Buildings and grounds chairman
- GINNY CADBURY – Secretary
- DALE PRIST – Historian
Note: Though Dale and Ginny are the youngest of the five officers, the ladies can vary in age. Seeking females, 20-60- any ethnicity.
Non-union. Actors will be paid a $1000 stipend at the closing of the show.
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