Rover Dramawerks Hosts Auditions For BLACK COMEDY 7/11, 7/12

ROVER DRAMAWERKS ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS for BLACK COMEDY by Peter Shaffer and directed by Lisa Devine

Auditions:
Monday, July 11 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday, July 12 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.

Callbacks, if needed, will be Wednesday, July 13.

APPOINTMENTS ARE REQUIRED!
For an appointment time, please email audition09@roverdramawerks.com

Auditions will be at Rover Dramawerks' office space, 521 J Place, Suite 629,
between Plano Parkway and the Bush Turnpike, a half block west of Avenue K.

Brief Synopsis:
Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d'arte "borrowed" from the absent antique collector next door hoping to impress his fiancée's pompous father and a wealthy art dealer. The catch? A blown fuse has plunged the apartment into darkness...just as said neighbor arrives home. Unexpected guests, mixed up cocktails, and the flame of a single lighter impede Brindsley's frantic attempts to set things right before light is restored. A brilliant farce described by the International Herald Tribune as "Pure hilarity." By the author of Equus and Amadeus.

Roles - 5 men and 3 women:
Brindsley Miller, a young sculptor (mid-twenties, male). Intelligent and attractive, but nervous and uncertain of himself.

Carol Melkett, Brindsley's fiancée. A young debutante; very pretty, very spoiled; very silly. Her sound is that unmistakable, terrifying debutante quack.

Miss Furnival, a middle-aged lady. Prissy and refined. Clad in the blouse and sack skirt of her gentility, her hair in a bun, her voice in a bun, she reveals only the repressed gestures of the middle-class spinster until alcohol undoes her.

Colonel Melkett, Carol's commanding father. Brisk, barky, yet given to sudden vocal calms which suggest a deep and alarming instability. It is not only the constant darkness which gives him his look of wide eyed suspicion.

Harold Gorringe, the bachelor owner of an antique china shop, and Brindsley's neighbor, Harold comes from the North of England. His friendship is highly conditional and possessive: sooner or later, payment for it will be asked. A specialist in emotional blackmail, he can become hysterical when slighted, or (as inevitably happens) rejected. He is older than Brindsley by several years.

Schuppanzigh, a German refugee (male), chubby, cultivated, and effervescent. He is an entirely happy man, delighted to be in England, even if it means being employed full time by the London Electricity Board.

Clea, Brindsley's ex-mistress. Mid-twenties; dazzling, emotional, bright and mischievous. The challenge to her to create a dramatic situation out of the darkness is ultimately irresistible.

Georg Bamberger, an elderly millionaire art collector, easily identifiable as such. Like Schuppanzigh, he is a German.

All roles are available.

Other Information:
• It is highly recommended that you be familiar with the script before auditioning. Please email audition09@roverdramawerks.com for an appointment, and you will be given access to a script.

• Please prepare a 1 minute memorized comedic monologue. (Ideally this would be a monologue with a British or German accent, although the accent is NOT required.)

• Be prepared for cold readings from the script.

• A resume and head shot is requested.

• Actors and technicians will receive stipends.

• Rehearsals will begin the week of July 25 in Plano.

• Please call (972) 849-0358 for more information or email audition09@roverdramawerks.com.

Black Comedy will run September 1-24, 2011 at the Cox Building Playhouse in Plano.

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