03/27/2015
Audition Notice - All in the Timing: Holly Springs Community Theater announces auditions for All in the Timing by David Ives.
Directed by Dan Barth
Audition dates: Sat March 28th and Tues March 31st from 6:30 to 9:00
Production dates: Fri May 15th and Sat May 16th (three shows in total)
Location: Holly Springs Cultural Center, 300 W. Ballentine St, Holly Springs NC
Please prepare a comedic monologue of 1 to 2 minutes. You will also read sides as assigned by the director. There will be approximately 8 rehearsals for each one act (plus tech and production). This is a very easy time commitment for any actors & actresses interested in this gig!
All in the Timing is an evening of several short one act plays. Age ranges are adult but wide open. There are 13 roles available for a mixture of men and women. The role of Don in The Universal Language is pre-cast at the director’s discretion.
Overview (from Dramatist Play Service): Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award. This critically acclaimed, award-winning evening of comedies combines wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun. "Like sketches for some hilarious, celestially conceived r***e. The writing is not only very funny, it has density of thought and precision of poetry…ALL IN THE TIMING is by a master of fun. David Ives spins hilarity out of words." —NY Times. "Theatre that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart. Ives is a mordant comic who has put the play back in playwright…A wondrous wordmaster." —Time Magazine. "An original turn of mind is to be saluted in our tired theatre…A playwright with ideas, his own ideas, in his head is relatively rare. Such a one is David Ives." —NY Magazine.
The one acts brief synopsis (also from Dramatist Play Service: SURE THING is a classic of contemporary comedy: Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love. (1 man, 1 woman.) WORDS, WORDS, WORDS recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce HAMLET and asks: What would monkeys talk about at their typewriters? (2 men, 1 woman.) THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of course, true love. (2 men, 1 woman.) PHILIP GLASS BUYS A LOAF OF BREAD is a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery. THE PHILADELPHIA presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what he wants. (2 men, 1 woman.) VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head. (2 men, 1 woman.)
Questions can be directed to Dan Barth at [email protected]
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