AUDITION NOTICE:
WHEN: Monday, Oct 19, 7 PM-9 PM and Saturday, Oct 24, 2015 11 AM-2 PM BY APPOINTMENT; *Callbacks Saturday, October 24, 2 PM if necessary
**Individual appointments are available for actors who cannot make these dates. Please indicate this on the form here
WHERE: The Baird Theatre (3rd Floor), 5 Mead Place, South Orange
To schedule your audition, or for more information including character descriptions, please click here
- Auditions will be by cold reading only
- No monologues will be seen at this audition
PERFORMANCE DATES: December 4-6, 11-13, 2015
THE ACTORS NIGHTMARE. Having casually wandered onstage, George is informed that one of the actors, Eddie, has been in an auto accident and he must replace him immediately. Apparently no one is sure of what play is being performed but George seems to find himself in the middle of a scene from Private Lives, surrounded by such luminaries as Sarah Siddons, Dame Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. As he fumbles through one missed cue after another the other actors shift to Hamlet, then a play by Samuel Beckett, and then a climactic scene from what might well be A Man for All Seasons-by which time the disconcerted George has lost all sense of contact with his fellow performers as well as what is make-believe and what is reality.
SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU. Sister Mary Ignatius, a teaching nun who is much concerned with sin in all of its various forms, delivers a cautionary lecture to her charges. One of them, a precocious little boy named Thomas, can quote the Ten Commandments on cue. But when several of her former students turn up the picture darkens, along with Sister Mary's indignation. Their stories are disturbing-but also very funny-and it is quickly apparent that one thing they all have in common is their loathing for Sister Mary and the unyielding dogma she forced on them in their formative years. In the end there is mayhem but, with this, the unsettling feeling that, amid the laughter, some devastating truths have been told.
