If you want a detailed description of scenes and characters, check out this resource pack from the Almeida Theatre in London. Note: The script we are using does not include the monologues, but feel free to use them in your audition.
Auditions are coming up on April 20 for our production of Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Pretty. it’s a play about society’s obsession with physical appearance and it’s effect on the lives of the four people who are the characters in this play. All the characters are ordinary people, people that you know — or know of — in everyday life.
This post focuses on the women in the story.
Steph is Greg’s girlfriend who spends the whole first scene breaking up with him after hearing that he said her appearance is “regular.” She is friends with Carly, but not with Carly’s husband Kent. Carly
STEPH
Steph is Greg’s girlfriend who spends the whole first scene breaking up with him after hearing that he said her appearance is “regular.” She has a fiery temper and never holds back. She is friends with Carly, but not with Carly’s husband Kent.
This character is 4 of the 8 scenes.
Carly
Carly is married to Kent. She works as a security guard at the same place that Greg and Kent work. Carly is the “pretty” one in the story, but feels that beauty can make life difficult for a woman.
This character is in 4 of the 8 scenes.
WHEN?
Auditions will be held on Saturday, April 20 at 10:00 a.m. with call-backs on the evening of Tuesday, April 23 at the Progressive Women’s Association, 305 Washington Ave., Clarksburg, WV.
(If you are unable to audition on April 20, please contact director Beau Bowden via Facebook ahead of time to make arrangements).
Show dates: June 20-23, 27-29, 2013. (Sunday performances are matinees).
More audition instructions are at https://www.act2theatre.org/2013/01/07/auditions/
More about the director at https://www.act2theatre.org/2013/01/12/meet-pretty-director-beau-bowden/