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Breakdown
LANTERN THEATRE SEASON
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by Anna Ziegler
September 10 - October 11, 2015
Seeking:
Rosalind Franklin
Female, mid 30s, scientist, British, doesn’t suffer fools; based on a real person
Maurice Wilkins
Male, late 30s/early 40s, British, formal, proper, Rosalind’s sparring partner, a wounded soul but not bumbling or buffoonish; based on a real person
Don Caspar
Male, late 20s/early 30s, American, open and affable, honest; based on a real person
James Watson
Male, early/mid 20s, American, all confidence, arrogance, hunger and drive; based on a real person
Ray Gosling
Male, mid/late 20s, British, awkward, endearing, kind; based on a real person
Francis Crick
Male, early/mid 30s, British, very proper, not unkind, brash, a philosopher among scientists, based on a real person
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UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL
by Glen Berger
November 5 - December 6, 2015
Seeking:
The Librarian
Male, 40s-60s, Dutch, a small town’s assistant librarian, eccentric with a bureaucratic streak, obsessive, sympathetic [Role CAST]
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OSCAR WILDE: FROM THE DEPTHS
by Charles McMahon
January 14 - February 14, 2016
Seeking:
Oscar Wilde
Male, 40, British, during his incarceration at Reading Gaol
Robbie Ross/ensemble
Male, 20s-40s, British, Wilde’s friend and a pivotal member of the late Victorian London arts scene, an aesthete and intellectual, based on a real person
Reading Gaoler/ensemble
Male, 30s-50s, British, working class, Wilde’s antagonist and bully
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AS YOU LIKE IT
by William Shakespeare
March 10 - April 10, 2016
Seeking:
Rosalind/emsemble
Female, 20s, daughter of the exiled duke, courageous, smart, a bit cynical
Celia/ensemble
Female, 20s, Rosalind’s cousin, loyal, devoted, a person of simplicity and deep emotion
Phoebe/ensemble
Female, 20s, a shepherdess
Duke Senior/ensemble
Male, 40s-60s, exiled duke, kind, fair, unambitious, a lover of nature
Orlando/ensemble
Male, 20s, an attractive, romantic young man of indifferent education and great potential
Jacques/ensemble
Male, 30s-50s, hopelessly melancholy, loyal, a cynical observer of others’ foolishness
Touchstone/ensemble
Male, 20s-30s, a bawdy but loyal clown
Oliver/ensemble
Male, 20s-30s, jealous, short tempered but capable of change
Amiens/ensemble
Male, 40s-60s, a jolly lord loyal to Duke Senior, a singer
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36 VIEWS
by Naomi Iizuka
May 26 - June 26, 2016
Seeking:
Setsuko Hearn
Female, 20s-40s; Asian, assistant professor of East Asian literature;
Claire Tsong
Female, 20s-40s, Asian, a restorer of Asian artifacts
Elizabeth Newman-Orr
Female, 20s-40s, white, charming, assertive, pragmatic, amoral
Darius Wheeler
Male, 40s-50s, white, a dealer of Asian arts and antiquities, adventurous, very smart, a bit of a swindler
John Bell
Male, 20s-30s, white, Wheeler’s long suffering assistant
Owen Matthiassen
Male, 40s-50s, white, chair of the East Asian studies department
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