AUDITIONS
Cone Man Running Productions is proud to revive the hysterical farce
THE IMPORTANCE OF EATING EARNEST by Ben Plopper
Sunday, August 13th from 9:30am - 12:30pm
Beacon Theatre
5102 Navigation Blvd.
Email for an audition time!
Ah, the struggles of being British, rich and self-absorbed. The tribulations of the wealthy can be rather difficult to manage. So serve pâté or caviar? Which high-end brandy should be stocked at all times and in which crystal decanter? What to do when the hired help doesn’t show up and you simply must throw a fabulous dinner party? Or how to handle the replacement houseboy who happens to be a zombie? Normally that would cause problems, only there are so many other, more pressing concerns, like how to hide your affair when you're trying to get your spouse to admit that they are having an affair? Is it possible to be so self-absorbed that you don't even realize that there's a zombie among you? Come see The Importance of Eating Earnest and find out who gets eaten first.
CASTING FOR:
DANIEL WEATHERSBY, early 30s, male - high-powered lawyer. LAURA’s husband. Kind of a dickhead, too.
LAURA WEATHERSBY, late 20s, female – DANIEL’s wife, socialite, and general drain on Daniel’s finances.
CATHERINE KLINGERMANN, female, late 30s – Neighbor to the WEATHERSBY’s and WILLIAM’s wife, snobbish boor, and could be called a “Machiavellian manipulator,” if Machiavelli was a mentally stunted chimp.
WILLIAM KLINGERMANN, male, mid-4os - CATHERINE’s husband, banker, and intellectual midget.
THE REPLACEMENT HOUSEBOY aka Earnest, male, early 30s - A poor sap in the wrong place at the wrong time. Also, a brain eating zombie. No lines, but has to have amazing comedic timing and physicality.
A DOCTOR, male, 40s - Serves no purpose but to be a feast for said brain-eating Earnest. Also A POLICE OFFICER, male, 40s - Because these things apparently need one. Must be able to speak (or fake) and unintelligible Cockney accent.
VIVIAN, female, early 20s, DANIEL’s secretary, and the only decent person in this thing, which means she’s the first to be Earnest food. Also NEWS ANCHOR, female, early 20s – Heard on a radio.
Performances wil be at the Beacon Theatre
October 12 - 28
Thursdays - Saturdays at 8PM
Sunday, October 22 at 3PM
Monday, October 23 at 8PM
Auditions will consist of sides from the script.
Please email
info@conemanrunning.com (mail to:
info@conemanrunning.com) for an audition time.
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