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Announcing Auditions for Almost, Maine
Ages: 13-19
Director: Jane Baker
Shows: April 5-15
Auditions: 1/10/12 3:30-5:30p
Tuition: $400
Rehearsals Begin: 2/28
For auditions please prepare a two-min monologue either comical or serious. You can memorize or read your monologue. If you'd like, you may pick one of the monologues from the play, below.
The play Almost Maine is a series of scenes between 2 or 3 people, with a total of 9 scenes. Everyone will have their time to shine. The play has interesting and challenging stories to tell and will require the use of a set of acting skills that may be new to young actors. The play is both realistic and metaphorical. There is humor, heartache and lot's of confusion over the feelings "LOVE" brings. We will be doing intense work or naturalism and creating "moments" on stage.
About the play:
On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream.
The Scenes/Characters:
Prologue
Pete- Who has been dating Ginette for a while
Ginette- Who has been dating Pete for a while
Her Heart
East-A repairman
Glory-A hiker
Sad and Glad
Jimmy- A heating and cooling guy
Sandrine- His ex-girlfriend
Waitress- A waitress
This Hurts
Marvalyn- A woman who is very good at protecting herself
Steve- An open, kind fellow whose brother protects him
Getting it Back
Gayle- Who has been dating Lendall for a long time
Lendall- Who has been dating Gayle for a long time
They Fell
Randy- Friend of Chad, a ‘County boy’.
Chad- Friend of Randy, a ‘County boy’
Where it Went
Phil- A working man
Marci- Phil’s hard working wife
Story of Hope
Hope- Who has traveled around the world
Man- Who has not
Seeing the Thing
Rhonda- A tough woman
Dave- the not-so-tough man who loves her
Monologues from the play (you may use these monologues for Auditions):
Females
GAYLE
Shh!!! I’ve tried to make you love me by giving you every bit of love I had, and now...I don’t have any love for me left, and that’s...that’s not good for a person...and...that’s why I want all the love I gave you back, because I wanna bring it with me. I need to get away from things...Okay, YOU. You are the things in this town I need to get away from because I have to think and start over, and so: all the love I gave to you? I want it back, in case I need it. Because I can’t very well go around giving your love—‘cause that’s all I have right now, Is the love you gave me—I can’t very well go around giving your love to other guys, ‘cause that just doesn’t seem right—Shh!!! So I think--. I think that, since I know now that you’re not ready to do what comes next for people who have been together for quite a long time, I think we’re gonna be done. So I think that’s the best thing we can do, now, is just return the love we gave to each other, and call it even.
HOPE
Oh, don’t even answer that. That was--. I know that’s a horrible question to ask a person who lives in a small town, as if everybody in small towns knows everybody else, agh!, can’t believe I asked that. I don’t live here anymore, but when I did, I hated when people assumed I knew everybody in a small town just because it was small. It was worse than when they’d ask if we had “...plumbing way up there?”, ‘cause, you know, people in small towns really don’t know each other any better than in big towns, you know that? I mean, you know who you know, and you don’t know who you don’t know, just like anywhere else. (Beat.) I’m so sorry to have bothered you. I was just sure--. When his parents passed away, he kept the house, I heard. He lived here. He stayed here, I thought. He was one of the ones who stayed (Beat.) I didn’t stay. I went away.
Males
CHAD
I don’t know. Just sometimes...I don’t know why I bother goin’ “out”. I don’t like it, Randy. I hate it. I hate goin’ out on these dates. I mean, why do I wanna spend my Friday night with some girl I might maybe like, when I could be spendin’ it hangin’ out with someone I know I like, like you, you know? I mean...that was rough tonight. In the middle of Sally tellin’ me how she didn’t like the way I smelled...I got real sad, and all I could think about was how not much in this world makes me feel good or makes much sense anymore, and I got really scared, ‘cause there’s gotta be something that makes you feel good or at least makes sense in this world, or what’s the point, right? But then I kinda came out of bein’ sad, and actually felt okay, ‘cause I realized that there is one thing in this world that makes me feel really good and that does make sense, and it’s you.
MAN
Oh, come on. You give yourself too much credit. He was young. That’s all you need to get your hopes dashed: Be young. And everybody starts out young, so...everybody gets their hopes dashed, and besides...I don’t think you really dashed his hopes. ‘Cause if you dash somebody’s hopes—well that’s...kind of a nice way to let ‘em down, ‘cause it hurts...but it’s quick. If you’d have said, “No,” that woulda been “dashing his hopes”. (Beat.) But you didn’t say, “No.” You said nothin’. You just didn’t answer him. At all. And that’s...killin’ hope the long, slow, painful way, ‘cause it’s still there just hangin’ on, never really goes away. And that’s...kinda like givin’ somebody else a little less air to breathe every day. Till they die.
Robin Hood
Director: Peter Gould
Auditions: December 13th, 3:30-5pm; Ages 9-12
Tuition: $350
Rehearsals Begin: January 19th
Shows: February 24th-March 4th
Peter Gould will direct an original production of Robin Hood for actors 9 to 12. Students will learn some great new theatre skills, form a fun and exciting ensemble, and together we'll answer the question, should Robin Hood and his Merrye Men continue their campaign of robbing the rich and feeding the poor, or should they just go and OCCUPY downtown Nottingham with a list of demands?