Audition Information for Chasing Manet
by Tina Howe
Directed by Derek Barnes
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Audition Information
Audition Dates: Monday, August 26 and Tuesday, August 27 Audition Time: 7:00pm to 8:30pm (both nights) Audition Location: GracePoint Wesleyan Church Activities Center 1420 Orchard Drive Brookings, SD 57006 Please use north doors Performance Dates: October 31 - November 3, 2019 General Information for Auditions: PLEASE COME ONLY ONE NIGHT. WE WILL BE SEEING MANY ACTORS SO IN THE EFFORT OF TIME, WE ASK THAT YOU COME ONLY ONE NIGHT. THERE IS NO ADVANTAGE TO COMING BOTH NIGHTS Please print and fill out the audition form below and bring with you to auditions. This form will also be available at the door. We are auditioning actors: age 16+. AUDITIONS WILL CONSIST OF: – Reading from the script – Director may led improv exercises – A movement audition, may be asked for. We will put you through you a small section of a exercises in small groups. You will then be asked to perform it in front of the production team as a group. Please remember to wear clothing that you can move in and appropriate shoes (i.e NO sandals, flip-flops, etc..) Brief SynopsisZestful and irascible portrait painter Catherine Sargent is legally blind and hardly ever leaves her room in a Bronx nursing home. Raging against the dying of the light, she plots to escape to Paris aboard the QE2. Her only hope is to enlist the aide of her senile roommate, Rennie Waltzer, who chats frequently with her late husband. At first the imperious, fiercely intelligent Catherine rails at being stuck with the sweet-natured Rennie. But—surprise!—by the final curtain they bond over their common ailments and their shared need to reclaim independence.
As Rennie's large family visits, Catherine suddenly offers a passionate, erudite lecture on the importance of her favorite painting, Manet's Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe, which hangs over her bed, followed by the Waltzers enthusing over a nephew's kitschy TV commercial for a furrier, featuring minks riding in a gondola to Vivaldi's Gloria 
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CastLooking for 8 Women and 8 Men, or Double Roles 4 Women and 3 Male HENRY (Male) – A patient who cries for help SAVIANA (Female) – A patient who makes strange noises IRIS (Female) – A patient with Alzheimer's disease CATHERINE SARGENT (Female) – A prominent painter from Boston who's legally blind and suffers from depression, among other ailments, 80s CHARLES (Male) – Nurse and PT instructor, a man with a past, 30s-40s ESPERANZA (Female) – Catherine and Rennie’s nurse, 30s ROYAL LOWELL (Male) – Catherine’s son, a professor in the English Department at Columbia, 50s RENNIE WALTZER (Female) – Catherine’s new roommate, a lively Jewish woman in the early stages of dementia, wheelchair bound due to crippling arthritis, 80s RITA (Female) – Rennie’s daughter, 50s GABE (Male)– Rita’s husband, , 40s-50s MAURICE (Male) – Rennie’s brother, 70s MARVIN (Male) – Rennie’s son, 50s ANGELICA (Female) – Marvin’s wife, 40s SHERWOOD (Male) – A patient, the proverbial dirty old man MARIE CLAIRE (Female) – The French arts and crafts instructor, 40s STEWARD (Male) – From Trinidad, 30s CAPTAIN OF THE QE2 (Male or Female) – A charming Englishman, 60s | ||