Community Theatre of Little Rock Announces
Open Auditions for its Spring Drama
"The Trip to Bountiful" by Horton Foote
Please be advised that the location for auditions has changed to Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 West 17th Street. Audition times are still the same.
Auditions for Community Theatre of Little Rock's Spring Drama "The Trip to Bountiful" by Horton Foote will be held on March 15th and 16th at 2pm, at The PUBLIC Theatre, 616 Center Street in Downtown Little Rock. Directed by Harold Dean
There will be cold readings from the script.
6 Men, 3 Women, possible extras
Production dates for the show are April 25th-May 11th.
Rehearsals begin around March 17th
This is the poignant story of Mrs. Watts, an aging widow living with her son and daughter-in-law in a three-room flat in Houston, Texas. Fearing that her presence may be an imposition on others, and chafing under the watchful eye of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Watts imagines that if she can get away and return to her old home in the town of Bountiful, she is sure to regain her strength, dignity and peace of mind. So she attempts to run away, and when she reaches a bus station on the last part of her short journey, she falls into the hands of a sheriff whom her son and daughter-in-law have put on her trail. The sheriff, a kindly fellow, allows her to complete the final stage of her journey, so she proceeds to Bountiful and makes a lonely pilgrimage to the scene of her old home. Only too soon she learns that the friends of her youth have all died or scattered, and her home is no longer the spacious mansion of her memories but a crumbling wreck. But she has the supreme satisfaction of plunging her hands into the strength-giving earth, and this leaves her with a sense of that strength and dignity that will give her the courage to survive. When her son and daughter-in-law appear on the scene to take her back to Houston, she consents to return quietly, secure in the knowledge that the remainder of her existence will be enriched as a result of her last contact with Bountiful.
Founded in 1956, the Community Theatre of Little Rock (CTLR) is Central Arkansas’s oldest and finest theater tradition. CTLR is a nonprofit, volunteer organization striving to enlighten, educate and entertain our community by providing live theatrical productions of the highest quality, as well as providing opportunities for talented people to perform and participate in all phases of producing live theater.
For further information, visit our website
www.ctlr-act.org. You may also look us up on Facebook or call our information line at (501) 410-ACT3(2283).
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