Spotlighters Theatre Announces Auditions for ARMS AND THE MAN, 3/27 & 3/29

AUDITION INFORMATION:
Saturday March 27 2-5pm at Spotlighters Theatre
Monday March 29 7-10pm at Spotlighters Theatre

Individual auditions can be scheduled for those that can't make either audition date.
Callbacks may follow a few days after the auditions.
The first read will take place the following week.
Auditioners will do cold readings of selections from the script.
There are four weeks between the first read and the first rehearsal to learn the script.
Please provide resume and headshot (if available)

PLOT SUMMARY
Arms and the Man is George Bernard Shaw's witty comedy of questionable manners. Decadent chivalry meets modern manners when, having deserted from his regiment, Capitan Bluntschli takes refuge in the apartment of a beautiful young Russian girl, Raina Petkoff. Raina is all for turning in the captain until he wins her over with the Shavian logic of his argument against warfare.
When Bluntschli returns to the house after the war with Raina's fiancé, Major Sergius Saranoff the hero of the war, Raina must decide who she really loves, the military hero she idolizes or the rough speaking solider she hid and fed chocolates.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
Raina: A wealthy and romantic daughter of a major in the Bulgarian army. She is twenty-three but looks seventeen. She is romantic, but wisely skeptical of romantic notions. She puts on an act of airs in order to be treated like royalty, but deep down wants to be Loved and
understood and wants to be treated as an equal.

Catherine Petkoff: A woman over forty imperiously energetic with magnificent hair and eyes who might be a very splendid specimen of the wife of a mountain farmer, but is determined to be a Viennese lady and to that end wears a fashionable tea gown on all occasions.

Louka: A handsome, proud seventeen year old girl in a pretty Bulgarian peasant's dress with a double apron, so defiant that her servility to Raina is almost insolent. She is afraid of Catherine but even with her goes as far as she dares. In many ways she is braver than those in the army.

Bluntschli: A Swiss Mercenary fighting for the other side. A man of about thirty-five, of middling stature and undistingusihed appearance with a strong neck and shoulders. Soldier like carriage and energetic manner, and with all his wits about him. Even with a sense of humor without the least intention of trifling with it or throwing away a chance. He is the essence of Scandinavian practicality and efficiency, the anti-solider of one who would rather reason with the mind than fight with the body.

A Bulgarian Officer: Sensitive to the nobility of of the Petkoffs but on a mission to search the bedroom of Raina for any retreating Serbians.

Nicola: A middle aged man servant to Major Petkoff of cool temperament and low but clear intelligence, with the complacency of the servant who values himself on his rank in servitude, and the imperturbably of the accurate calculator who has no illusions.

Major Petkoff: A cheerful, excitable, insignificant, unpolished man of about fifty, naturally unambitious except to his income and his importance in local society, but just now greatly pleased with the military rank which the war has thrust on him as a man of consequence in his town. The fever of plucky patriotism which the Serbian attack roused in all the Bulgarians has pulled him through the war: but he is obviously glad to be home again.

Major Sergius Saranoff: romantically handsome with the physical hardihood, the high spirit, and the susceptible imagination of an untamed mountaineer chieftain. The clever imaginative barbarian has an acute critical faculty which ha been thrown into intense activity by the arrival of western civilization in the Balkans. He broods on the perpetual failure, not only of others but of himself, to live up to his ideals. He has consequent cynical scorn for humanity; jejune credulity as to the absolute validity of his concepts and the unworthiness of the world in disregarding them. He winces and mocks under the string of the petty disillusions which every hour spent among men brings to his sensitive observations. He has acquired the half tragic half ironic air, the mysterious moodiness, the suggestion of a strange and terrible history that has left nothing but undying remorse.

ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw
AT SPOTLIGHTERS THEATRE
817 St. Paul Street
Baltimore MD 21202
www.spotlighters.org
directed by Brad J. Ranno
July 9 - Aug 1, 2010

 

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