The Millibo Art Theatre is holding auditions for its upcoming production of "The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde's acclaimed comic reflection of British society.
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Auditions will be held:
Saturday, January 9, 2016 - 10am to 4pm
Callbacks scheduled - Monday January 11,2016 @ 6:30pm
Cold readings from the script - British accents please.
Bring resume and headshot.
Plan on being at the audition for @ 30 to 60 minutes
REHEARSAL & PRODUCTION Details
Rehearsals begin in late January - March 2015 - scheduled evenings and weekends
Show opens March 10, 2016 and runs through March 26, 2016
Performance times: Thursday through Saturday @ 7:30 and Sundays @ 2pm
COMPENSATION
All performers will receive a stipend.
PLEASE CALL FOR APPOINTMENT TIME! - 719 465-6321 If you cannot reach us in person, please leave a message with your name, gender, age range and phone number and we will call/text you back with your appointment time.
AVAILABLE ROLES
A respectable man-about-town with a secret. In town, he is Earnest; in the country, he is Jack. He is in love with Gwendolen, but as a foundling, albeit a now wealthy one, he has to prove his worth in society.
An idle dandy and dedicated follower of fashion. Nephew to Lady Bracknell and cousin to Gwendolen, he is witty, acerbic selfish and utterly without morals. He has a perpetually terminally ill fictional friend, 'Bunbury', to whom he pays regular visits as an alternative to tedious social engagements.
the daughter of Lady Bracknell. She has been brought up with her mother's prejudice and pretension. A social animal, she slides through life with comfort and style without a care for anything or anybody. She is witty, venomous and utterly bewitching.
Cecily Cardew: - Female, 25-30 - all ethnicities
Jack's ward, lives with him in the country, young and pretty, favored by Algernon, who pretends to be Jack's brother Ernest, like Gwendolen, she is only interested in marrying a man named Ernest.
A ghastly abomination, wrapped in ego, snobbery and the disdain for others that can only come from ruthlessly climbing the social ladder. She is kept young by all the advantages of modern cosmetics. She is weathered by spite and stupidity and is the gatekeeper to Gwendolen's hand in marriage and all of London society. Not born into wealth herself she knows the benefits of a 'good marriage'. God only knows how old she is.
Governess to Cecily. A secret romantic. She is wrapped in should and could do's presented in cliché and failed sophistication. Described by Bracknell as, 'a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with education."
Chasuble is a ruddy vicar and self-declared celibate who is desperately in love with Miss Prism; Lane is a serious and condescending butler who tolerates his employer Algernon but can never hide his scorn.
Algernon's butler delivers a number of droll lines which show that he is far from a passive servant.
Jack's butler, in one scene he and another servant force the bickering Gwendolen and Cecily to maintain supposedly polite conversation.
