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Xenia Area Community Theater (XACT) is holding open auditions for local playwright and retired theater professor Brenda Hubbard’s play CONCRETE DREAMS, “a serious rural comedy” on Monday and Tuesday June 29 and 30 from 7 – 9:30 pm at XACT, 45 East Second Street, Xenia, OH. All 4 roles are open.

Auditions are BY APPOINTMENT ONLY and are cold readings of the script. When you make an appointment a .pdf of the script will be e mailed to you. Those wishing to review the script first may of course also request one. To make an appointment/request a script, or ask a question, please email director@xeniaact.org.

The production is scheduled for October 16-25, 2020. Due to the COVID19 closure of theaters, after casting is complete actors will be sent the script and asked to memorize their lines. In-theater rehearsals are expected to begin roughly 5 weeks before the October 16 opening night.

The setting is a SOHIO service station in 1960’s Greene County, Ohio.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION

• Virgil Kemp, age 44. Spends all his free time fishing. Reads every magazine he can get his hands on, can quote the Bible and has taken on a maternal role in the family. Loved a girl once – she left him at the altar
• Leona – 42. A trophy winning stock car driver. Likeable, insecure, always tries to make everyone happy. Married to an alcoholic, with 3 kids, and works as a waitress.
• Louie Kemp, age 42. Lovable, cocky man/child, and a decent car mechanic. Has had a string of girlfriends, but they don’t stay around very long
• Daddy, age 79. Frail looking, but still a force to be reckoned with. Calls the shots at the service station. No nonsense.

Here are the pages auditionees will be expected to read:

• Virgil and Louie- page 7-8
• Daddy- page 29 monologue
• Leona, Virgil, Louie- 36-38
• Virgil and Louie – all men reading for these parts should look at the monologue on 45-46

RABBIT HOLE, a drama by David Lindsay-Abaire

Becca and Howie Corbett have a picture-perfect family life in the suburbs of New York until a random, tragic accident takes the life of their four-year old son. Soon after, Becca’s younger, irresponsible sister, Izzy, announces that she is pregnant. As Becca and Howie grow apart, Becca’s mother, Nat, badgers Becca about her grieving process, and Jason, the young driver who killed their son, continually shows up to ask forgiveness. Rabbit Hole delves into the complexity of a family navigating deep grief, and learning what it means to live a fruitful life when things fall apart.

Directed by Sara Duibley

March 9 & 10 at 7pm

Xenia Area Community Theater
45 E. Second St. in Xenia

SHOW DATES: MAY 8-17

NEEDED:   3W  2 M

Characters:

• Becca—a grieving mother in her thirties or forties. Tough and uncompromising, she cannot tolerate insincerity or impracticality.
• Howie—Becca’s husband, a patient man who specializes in pretending everything is fine.
• Izzy—Becca’s younger sister, in her twenties or thirties. A perennial party girl who never grew up, Izzy is still trying to find herself.
• Nat—Becca and Izzy’s mother, an opinionated alcoholic with a knack for sticking her foot in her mouth.
• Jason—an awkward and nerdy boy. Late teens or early twenties.

Auditions will be cold readings from the script.