Auditions

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Actor Audition times will be set in 10 minute intervals. Once you have sent in this form you will receive an email with further details
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BLACK COMEDY
by Ira Levin

AUDITION TIME & LOCATION:
Sun June 30 or Tue July 2 @ Theatre in the Country
5708 Glover Road, Langley, BC

Director: Reg and Erin Parks
Producer: Reg & Erin Parks
Stage Manager: Michaela Freeman

NEEDED for your Audition:

  • Fill out the form to the left and let us know the best time period to book you in (you can choose more than one)
  • NEW! Submit headshot (or picture) and resume (or list of shows) in the form
    • IMPORTANT NOTES: – if you don’t do as follows your audition request may be returned to you.
      • Please name your Headshot with your full name – not just ‘headshot’
      • Please send your resume or show list as a PDF with your name and the word resume (ie:  JillActor Resume.pdf)
  • Sides will be sent out to you once you have requested an audition time.  Please be familiar with the material.
  • Please arrive early in order to fill out an audition form.
  • Please read below for character descriptions

A FEW NOTES ABOUT THE SHOW

  • Regular Rehearsals will run from mid July to September
  • Rehearsals will be on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays
  • The show will run for 3 weeks: September 12 -28
  • If you wish to audition but are not available for any of the dates please use the form to left to let us know that.  No promises, but we will do what we can.

SYNOPSIS
Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d’arte “borrowed” from the absent antique collector next-door, hoping to impress his fiancee’s pompous father and a wealthy art dealer. Just when the father and the art dealer are set to arrive the flat is plunged into a blackout.

AVAILABLE ROLES:

 BRINDSLEY MILLER   [Male] (25-35)
A nervous and self-deprecating artist who is desperate to make a sale and impress his future father in law with is artistic talent and business acumen.

 CAROL MELKETT   [Female] (20-35)
Brindsley’s spoiled finance who is trying to support his endeavours by taking nice furniture from the man next door without his knowledge in order to impress her dad.

 HAROLD GORRINGE   [Male] (30-55)
The snobbish and uptight antique dealer who comes home early and does not realize he is sittIng on his own chaise lounge.

 COLONEL MELKETT   [Male] (55+)
Carol’s father, an army man, who is none to sure about his daughters associations with an artist type who seems to live in the dark.

 MISS FURNIVAL   [Female] [25-60]
A tee-totaling spinster who is afraid of the dark. She comes to the apartment to seek refuge and comfort from the blackout.

 CLEA [Female] [20-30]
Brindsley’s former flame who shows up unannounced and causes all manner of trouble for the young and increasingly frantic artist.

 SCHUPPANZIGH [Male] [40-60]
He has come to fix the fuse, but everyone mistakes him for the famous art delaer who is here to look at and hopefully purchase Brindsley’s art piece.

 GEORG BAMBERGER [Male] [55+]
 The rich art aficionado who is here to look at the painting, but gets caught up in the craziness of the blackout and the assorted characters in the apartment.