AUDITION NOTICE
28 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
AUDITION NOTICE – FALL PRESENTATION – MOONSHINE
Auditions August 3rd, 4th (and 5th if necessary)
Callbacks on Aug. 11th.
If you are interested in auditioning or getting involved in any other aspect of the show, please contact
Phone: 416-469-5061
Email: mlukie5061@rogers.com
Please prepare a monologue if the director is unfamiliar with your work or if you so wish.
Audition Location – TBA
Rehearsals will begin as of August 23.
Rehearsal Location – TBA
‘Moonshine’ by Jim Nolan is a bittersweet comedy about a village undertaker, McKeever, who is trying to keep his ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ production alive even though the number of actors at his command has dwindled to four. His life is complicated when the lost love of his life, Elizabeth, returns home with the approaching death of her mother. Also fighting a losing battle is Elizabeth’s father, the Reverend John Langton, whose parish congregation is now smaller than the cast of Midsummer Night’s Dream. McKeever struggles throughout with the question of how and if one could or should keep a dream alive.
The characters:
McKeever (30′s-40′s): He operates in two modes: the frenetic, jagged, nervy weaver of dreams and the committed undertaker, still, erect and calm. Very susceptible romantically and subject to entanglement.
Michael (late teens to early 20′s): Michael is ‘different’, perhaps in some ways autistic, but functioning. Delicately balanced. Intelligent but selectively. Vulnerable. He is McKeever’s apprentice, in the play and on the job.
Reverend Langton (50′s-60′s): A sombre man who has very few illusions left. His wife is near-death but it might be hard to classify Langton among the living.
Bridget (officially 16, needs to play young): Vital, exhuberant, lusty, aggressive and smitten with McKeever. A real life force.
Griffin (teens to late 20′s): A bully on the surface, but with his own secrets. The kind of guy who kicks over sand castles so that no one will accuse him of being sentimental.
Elizabeth (significantly younger than McKeever): When she was 16-17, she had an affair with McKeever, the older man, that broke both their hearts. It’s been 5 years since she’s been back in town at all, although there were a succession of fleeting summer visits to her parents before that. She was a ‘princess’ as he describes her, but now she describes herself as a ‘survivor’.
The actors who play McKeever, Michael, Bridget and Griffin will also be performing excerpts from Midsummer Night’s Dream, so be prepared to have to do that at the callback as well.
