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RED FLAMBOYANT
by Don Nguyen
Directed by Ron Lagomarsino
1st rehearsal: August 8, 2011
Public Performance: August 12, 2011
SEEKING: 1 man and 4 woman
ABOUT THE PLAY:
Mrs. Hue lives in present day Viet Nam with a small group of women who all suffer from a mysterious health condition. It affects their minds, their emotions and their dreams. When bricks smash the windows of her small house, the locals fear they will be infected by this mystery condition. Mrs. Hue is forced to seek help from a stubborn government official to protect and support her group. Unlikely heroes emerge both in this world and the next as these poor women reach new heights of courage.
Character Descriptions:
MRS HUE: A Vietnamese woman in her late 20s-early 30s. A mother figure.
MRS SAU: A Vietnamese woman in her mid 50s-early 60s. Blunt but means well. Strong personality. She was once pretty. It's still there, but she has a hardened layer. Also has an Emma Goldman activist personality
VUNG/TRUNG TRAC: A Vietnamese woman in her early 20s. Slightly older then Nga. She's got a sharp edge. Brooding, warrior-like and full of angst.
NGA/TRUNG NHI: A Vietnamese woman in her late teens - early 20s. She has the heart of gold, girl next-door quality.
DIEM: A Vietnamese male bureaucrat mid 30s-mid 40s. He is all business yet not incapable of compassion. It's just buried deep inside him.
FALLOW
by Ken Lin
Directed by Jackson Gay
1st Rehearsal: August 8, 2011
Public Performance: August 13, 2011
SEEKING: 4 men and 2 women
ABOUT THE PLAY:
This deeply moving drama tells the story of Aaron Hayes, a well-heeled young American man who drops out of his Ivy-League education when matters of the heart become too overwhelming. He takes a job as a beekeeper which turns into a journey through the heartland of America as a migrant farm worker. His epic journey ends in the fields of California where he is mistaken as a Mexican laborer. Tracing a path of discovery, longing, hope, and grief, the play reveals both Aaron's transformation as he travels from farm to farm and that of his mother as she journeys in a gypsy cab to find her son.
Character Descriptions:
ELIZABETH HAYES: mid-40's; pretty, fragile, well-bred, intelligent.
AARON HAYES: early - 20's; intelligent, compelling, thoughtful, intense, funny, warm.
HAPPY LUGO: late 30's early 40's male; charming, bright, competent, idealistic.
JIMMY: mid-40's; big, burly, jovial.
DANNY: early-20's; naive, a dreamer, just finished boot camp.
Chloe/Janice (single actress): CHLOE: late teens/early 20’s; Whip-smart, sweet, naive, kind, beautiful, but not a conventional beauty. JANICE:
early 40's, working class, with a bright flame of intelligence.
30.3.thirty.three.
by Bill Cain
directed by Hal Brooks
First rehearsal: August 8, 2011
Public Performance: August 13, 2011
ABOUT THE PLAY:
To become a great actor, you need a great role. Only 30-years-old, Colin feels his time for greatness running out. He finally gets his shot at starring in a major movie. It’s a role that has ended the career of every actor who has tried it – the 33-year-old carpenter from Galilee. Colin can salvage his career if he can discover – before shooting starts – a trick no other actor has ever brought to the part - the secret of rising from the dead. The mysterious Magdalene and the carpenter himself join Colin on an amazing journey to break the bonds of death, learn how to play God and maybe win an Oscar.
Seeking: 2 men, 1 woman
Character Descriptions:
JAYSON: 33 years old; has two sides to him…an unbelievably touching sympathy for the outcast and a complete and utter rage at the oppressor.
MAGGIE: 30-35; had a family and walked away from them. Hard assed, unsentimental, tough.
COLIN: A comedian with sensitivity and a Dublin accent. 30’s.
WHEN WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID
By: Sarah Treem
Directed by Bart DeLorenzo
1st Rehearsal: August 8, 2011
Public Performance: August 14, 2011
ABOUT THE PLAY:
1971 - a bed and breakfast off the coast of Seattle. A mother raises her brilliant daughter with values of independence and self-respect while also providing shelter to battered women. Mother’s attention has recently been absorbed by a mysterious woman visitor who’s on the run from an abusive relationship - passing through this establishment on her way to freedom. Charming, but deeply self-destructive, the visitor begins to influence the daughter. Mom is forced to confront all the assumptions she's made about what it means to be a victim. The play explores the true cost of desire and dependence.
Seeking: 1 man and 4 women
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:
AGNES: 50, proprietess of the bed and breakfast.
MARY ANNE: 25, a runaway.
PENNY: 16, Agnes’s daughter.
HANNAH: 32, a traveler.
PAUL: 35, a writer.
RICK AND DICK
By: Rick Cleveland
Directed by Rick Cleveland
1st Rehearsal: August 8, 2011
Public Performance: August 14, 2011
ABOUT THE PLAY:
This wildly humorous play chronicles the author's childhood friendship and fixation with one of America’s most notorious commanders-in-chief, Richard M. Nixon. From his first letter written as a 7th grade class assignment to the President in November of 1972 through the darkest days of Watergate, this surprising collection of revealing letters between a young mid-western boy and the 37th President of the United States tells the story of an unlikely friendship during the funky and turbulent 1970s.
Seeking: 1 man
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:
DICK: Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States.
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