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Lafayette College Theater invites all faculty, staff, and students — as well as local artists and members of the greater Easton community — to open auditions for Tina Howe’s comedy, Museum, on Monday and Tuesday, March 5 and 6, at 7:00 p.m. in the Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College.
Museum, which will be performed April 18 through 21 in a downtown Easton gallery space, requires a cast of 18 men and 22 women. The characters range in age from 19 to 70 years old and come from diverse ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds.
Howe, whose other plays include The Art of Dining, Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances, and Pride’s Crossing, is the 2006-07 Closs Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette. She will speak about and read from her work on Monday, April 9, at 8:00 p.m. in the Williams Center for the Arts. Her lecture is free and open to the public.
Combining vaudeville sketches with cinema verite style, Museum chronicles in real time the interaction of museum patrons with art and with one another as events on the closing day of a controversial exhibition descend into chaos.
According to the author’s note that Howe has provided for Museum, “The play was written to serve the versatility of actors.” Although doubling and tripling of roles is possible, Howe suggests that “an entire school or community could be pressed into action in a production designed to recreate the crush of modern museum going.”
Michael O’Neill, associate professor of English and director of theater, who is directing Museum, is making Howe’s suggestion his starting point. Through open auditions, the College Theater hopes to assemble a diverse cast for Museum that fuses campus and community by creating an exciting and dynamic experience for performers and audience alike.
Perusal copies of Museum may be signed out from the main office in the Williams Center for the Arts. People who audition will be asked to read from the script. No other specific preparation for auditions is necessary.
Among the characters to be cast in Museum:
One male and one female–Jean-Claude and Francois–have French accents and seem to be from a Truffaut film.
One male and one female–Giorgio and Zoe–are married and international.
Two males–the First Guard and the Second Guard–are chill.
One male and one female–Mr. and Mrs. Moe–are deaf and must sign fluently and beautifully.
Two males and one female–Michael Wall, Fred Izumi, and Julie Jenkins–are photographers with fancy camera equipment that impresses nobody.
One female–Gilda Norris–is a sketcher.
Two males–Two Men in Passing–appear and disappear quickly.
One female–Maggie Snow–is lost in the museum.
Three females–Liz, Carol, and Blakey–are sorority sisters fulfilling an assignment.
One male and one female–Peter Ziff and Elizabeth Sorrow–are silent and intense.
Three females–Lillian, Harriet, and May–only laugh . . . and a lot.
One male–The Guard–must tap dance for joy.
And there are sixteen more.
For more information, contact O’Neill by email at oneillm@lafayette.edu or by phone at 610.330.5326