Massachusetts
casting notice posted by the Producer
Casting notice posted on auditionsfree.com, casting location: Southbridge, MA
Auditions for “The Rimers of Eldritch”
by Lanford Wilson
Monday, August 22, 2011 and Tuesday, August 23, 2011
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Gateway Players Theatre Arts Barn
111 Main Street
Southbridge, MA 01550
More Information: Website: http://www.gatewayplayers.org/
Phone: 508-764-4531
There are roles for 10 woman and 7 men ranging in age from 14 to 60 plus. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Performance dates are October 28, 29, and November 4,5,&6. Directed by Rip Pellaton. Produced by David Corkum.
THE STORY: As Martin Gottfried comments, “It is a simple one. A mystery, really. A man has been murdered. The mystery is, who he is, who murdered him and what were the circumstances? And to solve it, Wilson looks at the outsides and insides of his tiny, Middle Western town. He looks at a middle-aging woman who falls in love with the young man who comes to work in her cafe. He looks at a coarse, nasty woman mistreating her senile mother, who is obsessed with visions of Eldritch being evil and headed for blood-spilling. He looks at a tender relationship between a young man and a dreamy, crippled girl. But Wilson sees far more than this. He is grasping the very fabric of Bible Belt America, with its catchword morality (‘virgin,’ ‘God-fearing’) and its capability for the vicious. He senses the rhythm of its life and the cruelty it can impose. He understands the speech patterns of its loveless gossips, its sex-hungry boys, its compassionless preachers, its car-conscious blondes.” In the end his portrait of Eldritch is full length, and the truth of its revelations will be pondered long after the stage lights have dimmed and the play has ended.
Winner of the Vernon Rice Award. An Off-Broadway success, this highly imaginative and affecting play was hailed by the critics for its introduction of a new and remarkably talented playwright. Arraying his characters on a series of platforms with everyone on stage throughout the play, the author employs a unique contrapuntal technique to blend together the various people and bits of action into a striking mosaic, which captures, with eloquence and insight, the very heart and meaning of the small Middle Western town of Eldritch. “this reviewer liked RIMERS for its fluidity, for its language, for its almost musical sense of pattern.” NY Times. “it is of great effect, washed throughout with poetry and vibrant with individual style.” Women’s Wear Daily.
Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York
Casting Location: Southbridge, MA
Contact email: mukroc@verizon.net
