Auditions: January 17 at 6:30pm / January 19 at 7pm Please bring a headshot and resume and prepare a short contemporary monologue. Actors will be asked to read from the script.
This story belongs in the group of Southern Gothic comedies for which Henley is best known. Its heroine, Carnelle, is an irrepressible young woman who thinks that winning the local beauty contest will restore her soiled reputation and make her somebody in her small Mississippi community. The family and friends who help her along the way are a dysfunctional bunch who tackle life in their own peculiar ways. There is a former beauty queen cousin, Elain, who comes to offer advice and to run away from her husband and children. Elain's brother, Delmount, has come home from the mental institution to sell the family house and provide Carnelle another way out. Wandering into the chaos as Carnelle's seamstress is sweet and strange Popeye, who falls in love with Delmount. The general conclusion the characters reach is that, even if the real you is not the fulfillment of your hopes, you will be more at peace if you learn to define and accept your own self.
Popeye Jackson: Female, twenties-?
Popeye is the seamstress who makes Carnelle's costume; she becomes involved in the pageant madness while adding further strange elements to the story. A funny character with a hard life, Popeye got her nickname from a childhood prank that caused her eyes to bulge, but left her with the ability to hear through her eyes. She is a semi-literate, naïve, and always out-of-luck young woman who learned to sew as a child by making outfits for bullfrogs because she didn't have any dolls
Elain Rutledge:Female, Mid twenties-mid thirties
Elain is Carnelle's cousin, and she is everything that Carnelle is not. Although they grew up together, Elain was the spoiled beauty and Carnelle the misfortunate orphan. Elain won the Miss Firecracker contest when she was just 17., while Carnelle is 25 and pushing the eligibility limits.
Mac Sam:Male, 30+
One of Carnelle's former lovers, Mac Sam seems to truly care about her, even if she did give him syphilis. The carnival's balloon vendor, he cheers on Carnelle as she competes in the beauty contest. Mac Sam is tubercular, drinks heavily, and hasn't bothered to get his syphilis cured because he is tired of life.
The play revolves around Carnelle's attempt to win her town's annual Fourth of July beauty contest. She is 25 years old, works in a jewelry store, and is known around town as "Miss Hot Tamale" for her promiscuous past. However, Carnelle is trying to change all that. She got her syphilis cured, joined a church, volunteers for the cancer society, and invites an orphan to dinner every week. Carnelle is insecure and has low self-esteem.
Delmount Williams:Male late twenties- mid thirties
After he has spent time in a mental institution and worked at a job scraping dead animals off the road, Carnelle's cousin and Elain's brother, Delmount returns to town to sell his mother's house. He intends to use the proceeds to go to college to study philosophy, but he offers half the proceeds to Carnelle to enable her to leave town and start a new life.
Tessy MahoneyFemale 35+
As the beauty contestant coordinator, Tessy is supposed to keep Carnelle on schedule and cue her appearances on stage. Tessy's ugliness makes her another misfit at the beauty contest. Her past scandalous tryst with Delmount adds one more bizarre twist as she flirts with him anew.
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COMEDY OF ERRORS AUDITION: April 21 and 22 (7pm, 7:30pm or 8pm time slots) for THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, held at 380 Cambridge Street Burlington MA. Reply to audition@AtlantisPlaymakers.com COE will be directed by Kimberly Davis Basso and Sujoy De. Actors are asked to prep a 1-2 minute classical monologue.
REHEARSALS: COE Rehearsals begin May 1st and we will accomodate conflicts as possible so please bring a list of your conflicts with you to auditions. PERFORMANCES of COE: June 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 with matinee on June 13 and 20.
We are, as usual, providing multiple gender bender opportunities, and will consider the following:
Male or Female actors for Aegeon, Abbess, both Dromios, Prince, Pinch, Angelo
Female actors only for: Luciana, Courtesan
Male actors only for: Antipholus of Ephesus, Balthazar
Extras: We are also casting two extras to take on smaller speaking roles.
FUNNY PEOPLE - We're looking for actors, musicians, comedians, improv pros, clowns, you name it for a series of performances throughout the year. Everything from open mic nights to sketch comedy to competitions. Please send a resume and a description of your act to audition@AtlantisPlaymakers.com - let us know if you are a solo performer, troupe, whatever. IN ADDITION we are looking for individuals to take place in an improv competition this summer.
ACTORS Send resume and headshot to our Artistic Director, Kimberly Davis Basso. Atlantis Playmakers holds an annual general audition, typically in early May (see below for specific dates) as well as call backs for each show. AP is committed to casting a diverse group of actors. Company members are not automatically cast in our productions, and the ratio is usually about half and half. Gender bending is a regular occurence on our stage. We accept resumes on an ongoing basis, and participate in the StageSource auditions to fill role left after our general auditions. Submit headshot and resume.
FIGHT!!! Episode V: Return of the Jed-Pie Created by Kimberly Davis Basso Directed by various
The ensemble of FIGHT!!! requires stage combat, dance or a martial arts background. We are casting 4, possibly 5 women and 4 men to take part in this 45 minute extravaganza of stage violence. Each piece is set to music. Performers are expected to participate in the creation process and meet monthly to work on pieces, so rehearsal scheduling is very fleixible. This is unlike any show you will ever be in - there is no dialogue, there are no breaks. Please highlight fight, dance or martial arts experience on your resume if you would like to be considered for this show.
General Audition: The casting for FIGHT!!! is on an ongoing basis, so if you are a skilled stage combatant, please contact us. If you think you might be a good fit for this very fun, highly energetic cast, please send your resume to audition@AtlantisPlaymakers.com
Performances: Fall 2009 performance dates have not been set yet.
