We look back at the last year and have to say, it’s been a good one!
We produced 3 shows, one of which was also an entry in the West Virginia Theatre Association community theatre festival where two of our actresses won acting awards. We got a new board member. We saw people who had been away for years come back to do a show with us. Beau Bowden, who was a student at RCB High School when we had our beginnings returned to direct a contemporary play unlike any we’d ever done before. And we got some new creative people involved with us. Jerry McKeen came out of directing retirement (so to speak) to direct a show with us for the first time. All this year’s show were financial successes (meaning we did a little better than break-even). Yay!
Now we use that success to begin 2014 with auditions for 2 one-act plays on Saturday, January 11 at 10:00am at the Friedlander’s building on the corner of Main and 4th Streets in Clarksburg. (Starving Artists Studio is in the same building).
Though It’s always best if the directors can see and hear you read with the others who are auditioning, if you can’t make this date, please contact us, and we’ll schedule a private audition with you. Call-backs may be held on a date to be announced.Auditions will be readings from the scripts. No monologue prep is necessary, but if you have one ready, bring it along.Here are the descriptions of the two short plays we’re doing…
Visitor From Forest Hills
Rex Kelch will direct short play by Neil Simon titled Visitor from Forest Hills. Parts include mother, father, their daughter the bride, and bridegroom. The parents’ parts are the more demanding ones in this piece as they attempt to coax their daughter, the bride, out of the bathroom to go to her wedding. The bride spends most of the time in the bathroom, speaking from behind the locked door. The bridegroom is the least demanding role, making an appearance at the end to miraculously “coax” the bride out.
You can find large portions of this script online at http://www.drama21c.kr/
Lydia Mong will be directing a new and unpublished piece, Polterguest by Chuck Smith. She’ll need 2 women and one man who are, or at least look like they are, in the same age range. It’s a touching little comedy about a guy who hasn’t stopped grieving for his fiancé who died very suddenly some time ago and seeks out a medium to contact her spirit to find some closure. A spirit does appear, but is it his fiancé? All parts are equally demanding.
We have special permission from the playwright to do this play. If you’re interested in seeing the script before auditions, please email me at lydia.mong@gmail.com or send me a message on Facebook, and we’ll get a copy to you.