Upcoming Auditions
Owen Sound Little Theatre is holding auditions for their One Act Plays!
Audition Dates:
– August 17, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
– August 20, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: The Roxy Theatre, 251 9th St E, Owen Sound ON
Performance Date: October 5, 2:00pm
Check out the four plays and sign up!
You can sign up for an audition day online, drop ins are also welcome. Please arrive no later than 30 minutes before the audition end time.
Directed by: Silvan Alexander
Play by: Henry Denker
“Do you know where your parents are, and what they are up to” ?!
An unexpected romance engages Sam and Laura, two widowed seniors in their golden years. When they announce plans to live together without marrying so they can keep social security benefits they’d otherwise lose, their children hit the ceiling and don’t hesitate to dish out relationship advice to their respective parents, even though their own marriages are definitely not perfect. Sam’s daughter is married to her ex-analyst, and Laura’s son has a wife who is paranoid about food additives. All ends well for the elderly twosome, but not before the entire second generation is in nervous fits.
Full of witty banter, this endearing comedy is an amusing clash of intergenerational wits, morality and credulity.
CHARACTERS:
Samuel – a mid-sixties widower, alert, sprightly and still reasonably handsome.
Laura – a mid-sixties widower, pleasant, neat, modestly dressed with pleasing looks.
Cynthia – the daughter of Samuel, 40-45 yrs. a modern well-dressed suburban wife, acutely neurotic in spite of her supportive psychiatrist husband.
Mike – the son of Laura, 35-45yrs., a driven businessman with a nervous constitution and a challenging marriage.
Directed by: Steve Byers
Play by: David Ives
At a restaurant, a man is informed by a friend that his frustratingly unlucky day is the result of his ensnarement in an anomalous pocket of reality called a ‘Philadelphia’, where he can only get what he wants by asking for the opposite.”
CHARACTERS:
Al: California Cool; 20s or 30s
Mark: frazzled; 20s or 30s
Waitress: weary; as you will
Directed by: Terry Burns
Play by: Neil Simon
Taken from Neil Simon’s Chapter 2, two scenes will be presented as part of an OSLT evening of one-act plays. While the full work explores the complicated drama and comedy of love and sexual attraction the second time around, these two scenes portray the giddy, slightly apprehensive aspect of first acquaintance. George, a recently bereaved man in his early forties, inadvertently contacts Jennie, the early-thirties divorcée George’s brother is trying to set him up with. Instantly intrigued with each other, the scenes depict the flirty initial telephone call and first meeting that begins their recklessly passionate, then troubled, romance.
CHARACTERS:
1 male, forties
1 female, thirties or forties
Director: Aaron Crose
By: Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt
A rock musical examining grief, loss, and generational trauma through the lens of mental health as the Goodman family navigate relationships with each other and their past.
CHARACTERS:
DIANA (she/her): To play late-30s. Peppy. Fun. Sharp. Living with Bipolar I Disorder. High Belt Mezzo-Soprano..
her son GABE (he/him): To play almost-18. Dashing. Gentle. Bright. Playful. “Everything a mother”, etc. High Tenor
her husband DAN (he/him): To play late-30s, early-40s. Together. Genuine. Constant. Tired. Baritone-Tenor.
her daughter NATALIE (she/her): To play 16. Trying to be perfect. It’s not going well. High Belt Mezzo-Soprano.
and HENRY (he/him): To play 16. Musician. Romantic. Stoner. Slacker. Philosopher. Baritone-Tenor
and DOCTOR FINE/MADDEN (he/him): On the young side of ageless. Assured. A rock star. Baritone-Tenor.”
**Character pronouns are listed – actors of any gender presentation are welcomed and encouraged.