Point Loma Playhouse announces auditions for their last show of this season and their first show of next season. Ending the season is If We are Women by Joanna McClelland Glass---two grandmothers, a daughter and granddaughter have gathered on a deck of a beach house. The three older women discuss their pasts, present and are confounded with the granddaughter’s decisions to disregard all that she has heard. ?Jessica, a writer approaching middle-age, her mother Ruth (who is unable to read or write) and her Jewish mother-in-law, Rachel, find themselves emotionally stranded in Jessica's Connecticut beach home. Weighing the choices each have made as women, as daughters, as mothers, their recollections of guilt and regret are punctuated by wry observations on sex, history, ideas and their relationships with the men in their lives.
Production dates are May 8,9,10,16,17,23,24,29,30. Friday/Saturday at 8pm/ Sunday at 2:30pm. Auditions February 22 11am-2pm at Point Loma Playhouse 3035 Talbot 92106. Please prepare a dramatic two-three minute monologue. Directed by Jerry Pilato. Please send resume/current headshot to ?jerryadplp@gmail.com?.
Ruth McMillian mother of Jessica and grandmother to Polly. She is illiterate woman in her late sixties. Her inability to read and write causes her great pain. She is from the Canadian prairies. She is, as Rachel states in the paly, ‘without guile”. She is very likable, open, unguarded, speaks her mind. Brings laughter.
Rachel Cohen is the American ex-mother-in-law of Jessica. Well educated in her early to late 60’s She is sharp, witty, stern and acerbic. One foot in intellectual endeavors and one in the kitchen.
Jessica McMillian Cohen daughter of Ruth and mother of Polly. She is a writer in her early to late 40’s. She is confessional, but always in a fragile, wistful, slightly humorous way. At times melodramatic. Enjoys wine! Her lover of eight years has just died.
Polly Cohen is eighteen, a vibrant personality in her final year of high school. Plans to attend Yale.
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