Over the River and Through the Woods
By Joe DiPietro
Director
Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
Audition Dates
Sunday, March 6: 1-3 pm
Monday, March 7: 7-9:30 pm
Audition Location
Edmonds Driftwood Players Rehearsal Annex located at 200 Dayton Street, Edmonds
Callbacks (By invitation only)
Thursday, March 10: 7–8:30 pm
Rehearsal Dates
March 28 – May 12. (Based upon cast availability, most likely Monday – Thursday evenings 7-10 pm and Sundays TBD, until Tech Week which starts Saturday, May 7.)
Performance Dates
May 13 – June 5 (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm).
SYNOPSIS
Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DePietro is a touching, funny memory play about family love, relationships, and heartbreaks that life inevitably offers. Nick Cristano may be living the life of a modern young professional in New York City, but his loving grandparents never let him forget where he belongs: in New Jersey, in the bosom of his tenacious, tender-hearted, loud, loving, and well-fed Italian-American grandparents, who live two doors down from each other in Hoboken, and who lavish all of their affection on their last unmarried grandchild. Faithfully, Nick goes “over the river” to Grandma’s house every week for Sunday dinner. When he is offered an important promotion in Seattle, Washington, Nick threatens to break this routine by a distance of some 2,800 miles! Frank, Aida, Emma, and Nunzio are heartbroken at the prospect of their beloved grandson raising a family all the way across the country — or worse, not raising a family at all! Besides the usual tactics of emotional blackmail, in order to keep him safe at home, these wily elders cook up a matchmaking scheme, inviting lovely nurse Caitlin O’Hare over for Sunday dinner.
AUDITION REQUIREMENT
Monologue: Prepare a comedic monologue, no longer than 2 minutes. For those without prepared material, there will be a selection of monologues available for cold reads.
Headshot and Resume: Please bring one copy.
CASTING (3 male-identifying and 3 female-identifying roles)
Nick (Late 20s – Early 30s) A young marketing professional, a man in his late twenties/early thirties. Nick is intelligent, energetic, agitated, and anxious.
Frank (70s – 80s) Nick’s maternal grandfather, a man of roughly eighty. An immigrant from Italy, Frank understands the importance of family.
Aida (70s) Nick’s maternal grandmother, a woman in her seventies. Aida equates care and food with love, family, and home.
Nunzio (70s) Nick’s paternal grandfather, a man in his seventies. A true romantic who has dealt with horrible loss, Nunzio carries with him a burden that he refuses to share.
Emma (70s) Nick’s paternal grandmother, a woman in her seventies. She found true love with Nunzio and wants nothing more than for her Nicky to have what she has.
Caitlin (20s – 30s) A nurse, a charming woman in her twenties/thirties. Caitlin is looking to re-enter the dating scene and is set up with an unknowing Nick on a blind date.
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