Carpenter Square Theatre To Hold Auditions For COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY 7/11

Carpenter Square Theatre will hold auditions for COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY on July 11th from 2 to 5 p.m. with callbacks on Sunday, July 12th from 2pm to 5pm.

Please read the script before auditions! Perusal copies of the script may be checked out for a $10 refundable deposit per script. Scripts are due back on or before the audition date in order to receive your refund. To make arrangements to check out a script, call the Carpenter Square office at 232-6500. Office hours are Noon to 6:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Please call before coming by the theatre office to make sure a script is available.

For auditions, enter the main lobby and take the stairs or elevator to the basement level of Stage Center to check in and fill out your audition form. Bring a current resume and photo (a good snapshot is fine), and be prepared to list any and all conflicts during the rehearsal period. If you have no photo, you should have a Polaroid snapshot taken for a $2 fee.

COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY is a comedy by Jeffrey Hatcher. It is directed by Rhonda Clark and will perform September 4 through 26, 2009. The first read-through is on July 20 and there are no rehearsals the week of August 3-8.

When you're a 17th-century man who likes men and plays women's roles in the theatre, the last thing you need is the men's artistic monopoly on female characters getting revoked on the whim of a monarch. Ned, the star cross-dresser of the English stage and the secret lover of the Duke of Buckingham, sees his life take a tragic turn when King Charles, in order to please a courtesan, decrees that females be allowed to act. Suddenly Ned's out of work, out of the duke's heart, and coping with a severe identity crisis. The epicene protagonist (based on the real actor Edward Kynaston) must reinvent himself in order to rejoin the world he was cast out of.

The cast is 9 men and 6 women, with some doubling to portray over 24 roles. Standard British and Cockney dialects will be used. Visit http://www.carpentersquare.com/audition.htm for more information.

 

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