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AUDITIONS APPROACH !! Table Manners by Alan Ayckbourn Directed by Jan Carpman PTD will fully stage the first play in the trilogy, “Table Manners” (7 performances) and will present staged readings of the second play, “Living Together” (1 performance, Saturday matinee, Dec. 11) and the third, “Round and Round the Garden” (1 performance, Saturday matinee, Dec. 18). AuditionLocale: Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI and Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown branch AuditionDateTime: Weds. Sept. 8 at 7 PM, Riverside Arts Center Thursday, Sept. 9 at 6:30 PM Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown branch (3rd floor, AADL "Freespace") (Callbacks) Friday, Sept. 9, at 7 PM Riverside Arts Center PerformanceDateTime: "Table Manners" December 9, 10, 11 16, 17, 18 at 8 PM, Dec. 12 at 2 PM; "Living Together" Dec. 11 at 2 PM, "Round and Round the Garden" Dec. 18 at 2 PM “The Norman Conquests” offers a unique opportunity for actors to play the same character (with the same ensemble) in three different, closely related, plays. It is also an exciting and unusual chance for audience members to experience a trilogy, including two plays in a single day if they so choose. "The Norman Conquests" is a trilogy of plays about a trilogy of couples, ages ~30-40 (although we may cast older): three siblings (Annie, Reg, and Ruth) and their respective or would-be or might-be spouses (Tom, Sarah, and Norman). It takes place in their childhood home: a grand, but decaying Victorian vicarage in rural England in the mid-1970's. Their mother (never seen, but periodically invoked) is bedridden, and cared for by Annie. All the couple relationships are fraught. After years of knowing each other, Annie and Tom can’t decide if they want to have a romantic relationship. Sarah and Reg constantly bicker and don’t like each other much: Reg is relatively clueless and takes refuge in model airplanes and homemade games; Sarah feels she must take care of everything and everyone, including Reg and their two young children. Ruth and Norman are particularly unsuited to each other - Ruth is a successful businesswoman (literally and figuratively “blind” without her glasses which she refuses to wear), while Norman is a free-spirited, bumbling, charming, assistant librarian lacking social intelligence. The other relationships (between sisters Annie and Ruth, brothers-in-law Norman and Reg) are less fraught, but not especially warm. No one quite knows what to make of Tom, the rather vague vet, who continually hangs around Annie, yet seems to have more ideas about how to get along with animals than with other people. Norman makes a play for both his sisters-in-law, Annie and Sarah, blind to the wild inappropriateness of this, since he “just wants to make them happy.” And, being desperately unhappy, they both respond positively, at least at first. Actors should be experienced, available (minimal conflicts), 100% dependable, fully committed to this production, eager to work hard as part of an ensemble, and able to speak with a “British” accent (dialect to be worked on during the production). Each character is well developed. There is some onstage kissing and suggested intimacy. Memorization for “Table Manners” will occur early. Actors will need to be very familiar with their lines from “Living Together” and “Round and Round the Garden,” but these will not need to be memorized. The rehearsal schedule will be intense. While creative scheduling will optimize the actors’ time in rehearsals, some weeks will include four rehearsals, and a few will include five. Not all actors will be needed at all rehearsals. Rehearsals will not be held most Tuesday evenings. Please bring a typed theater resume, including names of directors you have worked with, a recent photo, and your conflicts between September and December. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script, but you may also perform a short monologue (1-2 minutes) if you have one prepared. Characters (all could be played by actors 30 - 65): Annie Ruth Sarah Tom Norman Reg Note: If your observance of the Jewish High Holidays conflicts with the audition schedule, please contact the director for another audition time and place. ArtisticDirection: Jan Carpman ContactInfo: jcarpman@comcast.net, (734) 546-3390 AuditionProcess: Cold reading from script

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AUDITIONS APPROACH !!

Table Manners

by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Jan Carpman

PTD will fully stage the first play in the trilogy, “Table Manners” (7 performances) and will present staged readings of the second play, “Living Together” (1 performance, Saturday matinee, Dec. 11) and the third, “Round and Round the Garden” (1 performance, Saturday matinee, Dec. 18).

AuditionLocale:
Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI and Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown branch

AuditionDateTime:
Weds. Sept. 8 at 7 PM, Riverside Arts Center
Thursday, Sept. 9 at 6:30 PM Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown branch (3rd floor, AADL "Freespace")
(Callbacks) Friday, Sept. 9, at 7 PM Riverside Arts Center

PerformanceDateTime:
"Table Manners" December 9, 10, 11 16, 17, 18 at 8 PM, Dec. 12 at 2 PM; "Living Together" Dec. 11 at 2 PM, "Round and Round the Garden" Dec. 18 at 2 PM

“The Norman Conquests” offers a unique opportunity for actors to play the same character (with the same ensemble) in three different, closely related, plays. It is also an exciting and unusual chance for audience members to experience a trilogy, including two plays in a single day if they so choose. "The Norman Conquests" is a trilogy of plays about a trilogy of couples, ages ~30-40 (although we may cast older): three siblings (Annie, Reg, and Ruth) and their respective or would-be or might-be spouses (Tom, Sarah, and Norman). It takes place in their childhood home: a grand, but decaying Victorian vicarage in rural England in the mid-1970's. Their mother (never seen, but periodically invoked) is bedridden, and cared for by Annie. All the couple relationships are fraught. After years of knowing each other, Annie and Tom can’t decide if they want to have a romantic relationship. Sarah and Reg constantly bicker and don’t like each other much: Reg is relatively clueless and takes refuge in model airplanes and homemade games; Sarah feels she must take care of everything and everyone, including Reg and their two young children. Ruth and Norman are particularly unsuited to each other - Ruth is a successful businesswoman (literally and figuratively “blind” without her glasses which she refuses to wear), while Norman is a free-spirited, bumbling, charming, assistant librarian lacking social intelligence. The other relationships (between sisters Annie and Ruth, brothers-in-law Norman and Reg) are less fraught, but not especially warm. No one quite knows what to make of Tom, the rather vague vet, who continually hangs around Annie, yet seems to have more ideas about how to get along with animals than with other people. Norman makes a play for both his sisters-in-law, Annie and Sarah, blind to the wild inappropriateness of this, since he “just wants to make them happy.” And, being desperately unhappy, they both respond positively, at least at first.

Actors should be experienced, available (minimal conflicts), 100% dependable, fully committed to this production, eager to work hard as part of an ensemble, and able to speak with a “British” accent (dialect to be worked on during the production). Each character is well developed. There is some onstage kissing and suggested intimacy. Memorization for “Table Manners” will occur early. Actors will need to be very familiar with their lines from “Living Together” and “Round and Round the Garden,” but these will not need to be memorized. The rehearsal schedule will be intense. While creative scheduling will optimize the actors’ time in rehearsals, some weeks will include four rehearsals, and a few will include five. Not all actors will be needed at all rehearsals. Rehearsals will not be held most Tuesday evenings.

Please bring a typed theater resume, including names of directors you have worked with, a recent photo, and your conflicts between September and December. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script, but you may also perform a short monologue (1-2 minutes) if you have one prepared. Characters (all could be played by actors 30 - 65): Annie Ruth Sarah Tom Norman Reg Note: If your observance of the Jewish High Holidays conflicts with the audition schedule, please contact the director for another audition time and place.

ArtisticDirection: Jan Carpman
ContactInfo: jcarpman@comcast.net, (734) 546-3390
AuditionProcess: Cold reading from script