Eleemosynary
Auditions
Audition Dates: Saturday, February 9, 2002 & Sunday, February
10, 2002
(Note: these dates were changed from 2/3 and 2/4)
Audition Times: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Call Backs: TBD
Performance Dates: March 22 - April 13, 2002
Where: The Industrial Strength Theater, 269 Sunset Park Dr., Herndon, VA
Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing
This beautiful play by Lee Blessing explores the complex relationship of three
generations of intelligent, independent and unique woman. The ties that bind a
family are stretched as all three-woman fight against society and each other for
their independence. Their conflicts with and their love for each other is
brought to life on the stage by Lee Blessing's elegant play.
Roles & Ages (all roles female):
Echo: (To be played by an actress in her late teens to early twenties
who can play 16 on stage.) The granddaughter. A National spelling bee champion
and every bit as intelligent as her mother and grandmother if not more she
fights to pull the two woman of her life together and to make her family
whole.
Artie: (To be played by an actress in her 30's to early 40's) The
Daughter. She runs away from the non-disciplined and unfocused world of her
mother to teach and to work in the disciplined world of science leaving her
daughter to be raised by Dorthea. She battles with her inability to touch people
or forget them and especially how it affects her relationship or lack of with
her daughter.
Dorthea: (To be played by an actress in her 50's.) The grandmother of
the family. An independent and powerful woman of unique ideas one of which was
that "she could fly using only a pair of homemade wings and classical
training." She uses the shield of her eccentricity to live how she pleases
in a world that imposes imaginary limits
on a woman based on sex.
Obviously a "family resemblance" is desired during casting. Three
generations of woman. Grandmother, Mother, Granddaughter.
Audition format: Cold Readings from the script,
For further information contact the director, William "Bill" Aitken
via e-mail, Waitken585@aol.com
Cast
