Auditions
Theater Company of Lafayette announces auditions for a festival of new plays in honor of the shared 200th birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin.
Auditions for Separated at Birth: The Lincoln/Darwin Plays will be Monday, December 1st and Tuesday, December 2nd at 7 PM at the Mary Miller Theater (300 East Simpson) in Lafayette. There will be cold readings from the scripts, a short comedic monologue is optional. (Excerpts from the scripts will be posted on our website in late October.) No appointment is necessary. Choose one night to attend. More than twenty roles for men and women are available.
For additional information, email Artistic Director, Madge Montgomery, at madge@tclstage.org. Please put "Auditions" in the subject line, or call 720-209-2154.
The festival will run from February 12 - March 8, 2009
Monkey Men is a full-length play by Leroy Leonard, about the Piltdown Man, one of the greatest hoaxes of all time. Some tantalizing counterfeit bones of the "missing link" emerged in England in 1912, sending scientists scurrying in a thousand wrong directions. Forty-one tenuous years later Piltdown was finally revealed as a masterful forgery. Who perpetrated this spectacular joke on the scientific world? Why? National pride, personal vendettas, wishful thinking, and a keen sense of the absurd merge to create a fast-moving tale of what we can prove, what remains a mystery, and why we care. Monkey Men will be directed by Jim O'Leary . The play calls for 6 men, 1 woman, and 3 or more chorus members (men/women); British dialect required.
An evening of short plays, Abe and Chuck, Best Friends Forever, will run in repertory with Monkey Men. The one-acts will be directed by Madge Montgomery and Nicolette Vajtay:
Alfred and Eddy by CP Stancich. In a very funny running sketch, Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Lord Tennyson bemoan the fact that there are no play festivals about them. The scenes will frame the evening. (2 men...possibly could be played by two women.)
Lizzy and the Lincolns by Rob Gerlach. Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker, Lizzy, a former slave, experiences first-hand the tragedy of war and the racial divide. (2 women, 2 men)
The Debate by Don Fried. Charles Darwin and his friend and supporter, Thomas Huxley, relive the famous Oxford Debate about evolution, and both men ultimately discover the necessity of fitting science into the larger context of society. (2 men, 1 woman)
Beard Pressure by Evan Marquez. Lincoln and his secretary discuss the wisdom of the president's tendency to accept fashion advice from children. (2 men)
The E-Words by Emily Golden. Two college girls play a drinking game as they try to uncover the connections between Lincoln and Darwin for a school assignment. Ultimately, they decide to "write what they know" and make a convincing case for Lincoln and Darwin being BFFs. (2 women)
What Would Abe Do? By Nora Douglass. Mary Todd Rubinsky, a middle-aged middle school teacher, has been given ten minutes to reveal the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. As she races against the clock, she realizes the most powerful legacies of famous people are very personal indeed. (1 woman and 1 man)
You can download several script snippets:
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