Beowulf Alley Will Hold 2006-2007 Season Auditions
Who: Equity & Non-Equity Actor Auditions
When: July 29th from 2 p.m. – 7 p.m.
What: Please prepare two contrasting monologues each about
one to two minutes in length. Please bring a head shot
and resume.
Where: 11 S 6th Ave (6th Ave between Broadway & Congress)
How: e-mail theatre@beowulfalley.org or call 622-4460. Please
provide your name, phone number and approximate
time you would like to audition.
Why: “Beowulf Alley Theatre Company is living up to its name, staging excellent productions of plays that are independent alley cats of the theater world. Rascally dramas and comedies of a type that had slipped off the radar screen of local established companies that keep easing toward less confrontational fare.”
Chuck Graham- Tucson Citizen
Additional Information: Callbacks for: Frozen, Fiction, and Holiday Memories will take place on Sunday July 30th in the afternoon (time TBA). Callback date and time for: Woman in Black, Black Comedy, and Of Mice and Men will be announced at the audition on July 29th.
Please arrive at least ten minutes prior to your scheduled audition and break a leg!
Beowulf Alley 2006/2007 Season Schedule
Frozen September 16 – October 8
By Bryony Lavery Arizona Premiere!
"A major play . . . thrilling, humane, and timely"--Times (London)
Angry, humane, and compassionate, the Tony-nominated FROZEN entwines the lives of a murderer, his psychologist, and the mother of one of his victims, as it explores—in the wake of an act that would seem to rule them out entirely--our capacities for forgiveness, remorse, and change.
"The almost thriller-like promise of the play's climactic confrontation is like a time-bomb ticking in the back of your head." —Independent (London).
Roles:
Agnetha
American Psychologist, Female 40’s- 50’s
Ralph
British inmate, Male 30’s – 40’s
Nancy
British Mother, Female Late 20’s- 30’s
Guard
Male 20’s – 40’s
Fiction November 4 – November 26
By Steven Dietz Arizona Premiere!
Every relationship has its secrets.
Linda and Michael Waterman are a happily married couple, both successful writers. When Linda faces a life-threatening illness, they decide to share their diaries with one another--and the boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction, trust and betrayal begin to break down. This intelligent and perceptive play peers into the private world of a husband and wife facing truths that were better left unsaid.
"Everything about the play has an elegance and richness our theater sees too seldom."-- New York Daily News.
Roles:
Linda Waterman
Novelist, Female, Late 30’s – early 40’s
Michael Waterman
Novelist, Male, 40-45
Abby
Female, Late 20’s – 30’s
Holiday Memories December 2 – December 24
By Truman Capote Arizona Premiere!
Stage Version by Russell Vandenbroucke
An American classic to rival "A Christmas Carol"
The adult Truman Capote narrates this nostalgic memoir of the holiday celebrations of his childhood. Buddy has been abandoned by his mother at the Alabama home of an older relative, where he befriends his odd cousin, Miss Sook, a woman in her 60s, who, as she makes the traditional Christmas fruitcake and then invites the local bully to dinner, teaches him simple but important life lessons about surviving the torments of childhood and conveying the spiritual gifts of generosity and love.
Roles:
Truman
Middle Aged, the Narrator and Writer
Buddy
Seven, Truman’s younger self
Miss Sook
60’s, Buddy’s Friend
Man
a Versatile Chameleon who plays Odd Henderson as well as five other parts.
Woman
Also Versatile plays eight parts.
Musician
Provides accompaniment and exists in Truman’s world.
The Woman in Black January 13 – February 4
By Stephen Mallatratt
From the book by Susan Hill
One of the great ghost stories of all time
In an old theatre in London, an obsessed and terrified lawyer has hired an actor to help him produce a play about a story that has cursed him for much of his life. Many years earlier, the lawyer was sent to a foggy coastal town to attend the funeral of an elderly recluse—and ever since he has been plagued by the spectral tale of a fatal curse the local townspeople know all too well. As the margin between memory and reality begins to blur, your flesh begins to creep . . .
"One of the most exciting, gripping, and successful theatre events ever staged. . . now in its fifteenth year in [London's] West End."—thisistheatre.com
Roles:
Kipps
Middle Aged, London attorney
Actor
Skilled (and he knows it) classical English actor, 30’s – 50’s
The Woman
Female 50’s – 60’s
Black Comedy March 10 – April 1
By Peter Schaffer
In this clever and famous farce by the author of Equus and Amadeus, action supposedly in the dark is illuminated; when the lights are supposed to be on, the stage is dark. Hoping to impress his fiancée’s pompous father and a wealthy art buyer, an unscrupulous sculptor has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d'art "borrowed" from the absent antique dealer next door. The campy neighbor returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness . . .
"[One of] the funniest and most brilliant short plays in the language."--London Sunday Times.
Roles:
Brindsley Miller
Sculptor, nervous and uncertain on himself. Male, 20’s–30’s
Carol Melkett
Brindsley’s Fiancée, Debutante, spoiled. Female, 20’s–30’s
Miss Furnival
Middle aged, prissy and refined; hair in a bun, voice in a bun
Colonel Melkett
Carol’s commanding father, unstable
Harold Gorringe
Bachelor, owner of antique shop, Brindsleys’ Neighbor, 30’s
Schuppanzigh
German Refugee, Electrician, Chubby, Happy, any age.
Clea
Brindsley’s ex-mistress, bright and mischievous, 20’s – 30’s
George Bamberger
Elderly Millionaire art collector
Of Mice and Men May 5 – May 27
By John Steinbeck
“Guys like us ain’t got no family…they don’t belong no place.”
This classic Depression-era tale follows Lenny and George, two migrant farm workers in California who have to move from job to job in order to stay ahead of the problems that Lenny creates. Just when George thinks they have finally found a place to call home, Lenny innocently harms the bosses’ daughter, forcing George to make a fateful decision.
Winner of the 1938 New York Drama Circle Critics Award
Roles:
Lenny
A large, lumbering, childlike migrant worker 20’s – 30’s
George
A small, wiry, quick-witted man who travels with, and cares for, Lennie, 20’s – 30’s
Candy
An aging ranch handyman; Candy lost his hand in an accident and worries about his future on the ranch 50’s – 60’s
Curley
The boss’s son, rumored to be a champion prizefighter, he is confrontational, mean-spirited, 20’s – 30’s
Curley’s wife
Dressed in fancy dresses and shoes, she is desperately lonely and has broken dreams of a better life, 20’ - 30’s
Crooks
Crooks, the black stable-hand, gets his name from his crooked back. Proud, bitter, and caustically funny 50’s - 60’s
Slim
Tall & thin, the ranch foreman, the other characters often look to Slim for advice 20’s – 40’s
Carlson
A ranch-hand, Carlson complains bitterly about Candy’s old, smelly dog. 20’s – 40’s
The Boss
Owns the ranch, Curley’s father, tough, fair, 50’s - 60’s
Whit
A Ranch hand, 20’s – 30’s
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