LETTICE AND LOVAGE Auditions Held At Lakewood Theatre Company 9/22, 9/23

Lakewood Theatre Company will be having open auditions on TUESDAY, SEPT. 22 and WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23, 2009 for the Peter Shaffer comedy, Lettice and Lovage, directed by Diane Englert. Call 503-635-3901 to reserve an audition slot.

The director is seeking: 2 women, ages 40-60, 1 women, age 20-60 and 1 man age 40-60. In addition the director is seeking actors for non-speaking roles to play tourists in 4 separate scenes. All speaking roles require a strong English accent.

Audition Location: Lakewood Theatre Company at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego.

Materials Needed: Actors will read scenes from the play, or if the actor prefers, bring a prepared comic monologue in an English accent up to one minute in length. Please bring a resume and an 8X10 glossy photo. Also, bring your calendar to list all conflicts.

Performance Schedule: March 12 - April 18, 2010 (Thurs-Sat at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 7:00 PM and some Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM). Lakewood Theatre Company features an intimate 220-seat theatre located at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego.

About the Play: What happens when an eccentric tour guide is assigned to the dullest house in England? After watching her groups dwindle with boredom, she begins to elaborate. As she adds wildly dramatic tales of murder and intrigue, she begins to receive ovations from her increasing audiences. Her success is cut short when the formidable head of the Historic Tours shows up.

Parts Available:

All roles require a strong English accent. Knowledge of the play extremely helpful.

Roles are open for Non-Equity actors to play:

Lettice Douffet - Age 40 to 60. Theatrical, eccentric, a gifted orator with an impeccable command of language and knowledge of history. She is employed by the Preservation Trust as a tour guide for an English manor house. Requires excellent English accent and lots of line memorization.

Lotte Schoen - Age 40 to 60. A by-the-book bureaucrat who works in the personnel office of the Preservation Trust in London. Strict, smart, intimidating but with a romantic past. Requires excellent English accent and lots of line memorization.

Miss Framer - Age 20s to 60s. Ms. Schoen's mousy secretary. A squashed cabbage leaf. Requires excellent English accent.

Mr. Bardolf - Age 40s to 60s. A lawyer, professional and proper, who is surprisingly able to cut loose when the need arises. Requires excellent English accent.

Surly Man & Other Visitors on the tour of the English Manor. Same group of actors play different groups of tourists in 4 scenes. Requires the ability to come up with 4 distinct characters, with good reactions and ad libs that contribute to the scenes (no mugging.) Any age, ethnicity or type encouraged to audition! Some, but not all, will require English accents. For the audition, you may do a prepared monologue (see above) or read for one of the other roles. Surly Man should read side for Mr. Bardolf.

Call 503-635-3901 to schedule an appointment time.

About Lakewood Theatre Company

57 Years of Live Theatre: Founded as a not-for-profit organization in 1952, Lakewood Theatre Company is a semi-professional theatre dedicated to the study and presentation of drama in all its forms; the training and development of actors; and the creation, maintenance and operation of a theatre in which to present plays and other forms of entertainment. Lakewood Theatre Company is the oldest continually operated, not-for-profit theatre company in the Portland Metropolitan area. It annually provides more than 700 theatre artists the opportunity to learn and display their craft and attracts more than 40,000 people to its shows.

 

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