10/03/2012
AUDITION NOTICE:
Or
a play by Liz Duffy Adams
Auditions: October 9th 6-9pm or by special appointment
Callbacks: October 27th
Rehearsals will begin December 10th and performances will run January 25th-February 10th.
Please prepare a short classical monologue.
You may be asked to read from the script.
Bring a copy of your headshot/resume.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
APHRA BEHN - late 20's/early 30's
This role has already been cast.
CHARLES II
WILLIAM SCOTT }played by one male actor, 35-50
LADY DAVENANT or JAILOR
JAILOR or LADY DAVENANT
NELL GWYNNE }played by one female actor, early-to-late-20s
MARIA
THE STORY
OR, takes place (mostly) during one night in the life of Aphra Behn, poet, spy, and soon to be the first professional female playwright. Sprung from debtors' prison after a disastrous overseas mission, Aphra is desperate to get out of the spy trade. She has a shot at a production at one of only two London companies, if she can only finish her play by morning despite interruptions from sudden new love, actress Nell Gwynne; complicated royal love, King Charles II; and very dodgy ex-love, double-agent William Scott—who may be in on a plot to murder the king in the morning. Can Aphra resist Nell's charms, save Charles' life, win William a pardon, and launch her career, all in one night? Against a background of a long drawn-out war and a counter-culture of free love, cross-dressing, and pastoral lyricism, the 1660s look a lot like the 1960s in this neo-Restoration comedy from the playwright The San Francisco Bay Guardian called "an artist of playful and highly literate imagination, radical instincts, and sardonic but generous humor."
Email [email protected] to schedule an audition time.
All actors will receive a $200 stipend.
