AUDITIONS SET FOR PREMIERE OF SCARECROWS WILL NEVER SEE THE SUNSET
Period drama marks second production in 2014 season of New Plays for New Audiences
Playhouse Nashville announces professional auditions for the upcoming World Premiere production of SCARECROWS WILL NEVER SEE THE SUNSET: THE LEGENDS OF SMACKOVER. Auditions will take place by appointment Sunday, July 13, 2014 from 6pm until 9:30pm at 161 Rains Avenue in Nashville (NPT).
Roles are available for five males ranging in ages from 18-60, and two females – one ages 20s-30s and one ages 40s-60s. All roles are paid. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script with sides and character descriptions available for download by Friday, July 11, at PlayhouseNashville.com. To schedule an audition, actors should email
PlayhouseNashville@gmail.com with SCARECROWS AUDITION in the subject line and attach a headshot and resume if available.
Written by Austin Peay State University instructor Darren Michael, SCARECROWS WILL NEVER SEE THE SUNSET continues the Playhouse Nashville signature of offering their audiences viscerally-engaging theatre in intimate settings. Since 2011, the company’s popular Ten Minute Playhouse series of events has produced 91 plays by 50 writers in staged reading presentations. Beginning in 2012, their critically-lauded full-scale productions of works by Middle Tennessee writers have ranged from Nate Eppler’s raucous comedy SEXTAPE (& OTHER STORIES), to Kenley Smith’s Southern Gothic crime thriller DEVIL SEDAN, to the recently concluded drama ULTRASOUND by Garret Schneider.
“Darren is one of only two writers to have a script included in all seven of our Ten Minute Playhouse events since 2011,” says director Chris Bosen. “His ability to weave compelling characters into unforgettable stories makes an impact on our audience every time – whether it’s a tale of a bizarre secret revealed after a one-night stand in FEATHERS, a nude model posing for her boyfriend’s painting in MASTERPIECE, an immigrant seeking a room to rent in A WIDOW SAFE AND SECURE, a last-call pick-up in a honky tonk in WILLIE NELSON AIN’T DEAD, or a stressed-out dad conversing with his offspring in IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS WITH MY DAUGHTER. We were thrilled when he brought us this full-length play interested in developing it with our team of artists because we knew it would be a special experience both for the creative team and the audience.”
About the play: Oil. Blood. Madness. Love. Bo Legend -- one of three sons of farming patriarch John Legend -- faces the changes the discovery of oil & the sudden arrival of the Bradshaw family brings to his small Southern town and those closest to him in this non-linear, decade-spanning story centered in the 1920s and 1930s rural South.
Rehearsals begin the week of July 21, 2014. Performances will take place in residence at 1933 Elm Hill Pike (
Street Theatre Company) August 16-24, 2014 with curtain time at 7:30pm Tuesday through Sunday. Reserved seat tickets are $20 and are currently available online with no additional service fees at PlayhouseNashville.com & at 669.5792.
As of 2014, Playhouse Nashville, Inc. is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Playhouse Nashville, Inc., must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. For more information, visit PlayhouseNashville.com.
