AUDITION NOTICE:
KIMBERLY AKIMBO
A wild comedy written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Jon Heron
Produced by Alicia Harabin
WHEN: Tuesday and Wednesday, June 17 and 18, 7-9:30 PM. Callbacks (if needed) will be by invitation only 6-9 PM Sunday, June 22.
WHERE: Circle Players, 416 Victoria Ave., Piscataway
Show Dates are Fridays and Saturdays, Sept. 19-Oct. 4, 8 PM, with one Sunday matinee Oct. 5 at 3 PM
Rehearsals will start first week of August, three times a week, days and times to be determined.
Set in the wilds of New Jersey, Kimberly Akimbo is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition which causes her body to age four times faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love.
Auditions will consist of readings from the script (sides will be provided).
All roles are open.
Characters needed are:
- Kimberly - a teenage girl, played by a woman in her 60s or 70s.
- Buddy - (30s-early 40s), Kimberly's father, a beer slugging blue collar worker.
- Patti (30s-early 40s) - Kimberly’s mother, a foul mouthed, brash woman who is a hypochondriac and very pregnant. She is torn between loving her daughter and protecting herself from the inevitable early death her daughter’s disease promises.
- Debra (25-35 years old) - Patti’s younger sister. A homeless ex-con who shows up uninvited. Always on the prowl for the next get rich scheme, she’ll enlist anyone necessary to make it happen.
- Jeff (16 years old) - Kimberly’s nerdy classmate. He works at Zippy Burger, plays Dungeons and Dragons and does anagrams in his spare time. Not the most popular kid in the school.
For more information, email director Jon Heron at circleplayersnj@gmail.com.
