Auditions Announced for MISERY by William Goldman at the Warner

Auditions Announced for MISERY by William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King
at the Warner Theatre in Torrington, CT

Director: DICK TERHUNE | Production Stage Manager: CRAIG CLAVETTE

The Warner Stage Company will hold Open Auditions for a winter Nancy Marine Studio Theatre Production of MISERY by William Goldman; based on the novel by Stephen King on Monday, November 28, 2022 and Tuesday, November 29, 2022 (by appointment)

TORRINGTON, CT - The Warner Stage Company will hold auditions for a winter Nancy Marine Studio Theater production of MISERY by William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King on Monday, November 28th and Tuesday, November 29th by appointment. The production is directed by Dick Terhune. It will be presented in the Nancy Marine Studio Theater beginning February 4th through February 12th for five performances.

Auditions are open to the community. Actors of all ethnicities and gender identities are encouraged to audition and all roles are available. Actors are required to be at least 18 years old at the time of auditions. Additionally, roles may be cast without callbacks.

Please schedule your audition time online at www.warnertheatre.org using the Audition Manager link, complete the online audition form and read all audition requirements.

Monologue Preparation
Please prepare a 1-minute dramatic monologue of your choice, as well as memorizing the director selected monologue(s) for the character(s) for which you are auditioning. Director selected monologues are available for download on our website at www.warnertheatre.org.

All auditioners will also be asked to stay and read from the script with other auditioners.

If you are unable to make all the performances, mandatory tech week (January 29-February 3, 202) or midweek rehearsal, we will be unable to cast you in this show. Production schedule will begin with a table read the week of December 5th, blocking will begin the week of December 26th and continue through January to a standard tech week schedule. Specific rehearsal days and times will be determined once the production is cast.

The Warner Stage Company is a regional community theatre company and does not offer compensation or housing for performers.

CALLBACKS: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 starting at 7:00pm, if needed

AUDITIONS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Appointment times are approximate – we may take a little longer than the allotted time slot and we ask for your flexibility.

PERFORMANCE DATES
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 8:00pm
Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 2:00pm
Friday, February 10, 2023 at 8:00pm
Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 2:00pm
Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 8:00pm

ABOUT THE SHOW
Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “Number One Fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads the manuscript to his newest novel and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Annie forces Paul to write a new “Misery” novel, and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go anywhere. The irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it, and it does.

““There are no lulls in famed screenwriter William Goldman’s 90-minute stage adaptation of the Stephen King story, which Goldman himself translated into the 1990 film…Exposition that took a dozen pages in paperback and at least several minutes on screen plays out…faster than snow piling up in a Colorado blizzard.” —NBC New York.

AVAILABLE ROLES
ANNIE WILKES (female, middle-aged) - Former nurse, a seemingly wholesome, kindhearted woman who is Paul's "Number One Fan". But soon it becomes clear she is not as harmless or mentally stable as it would first seem. She is constantly jumping between kind and caring to ruthlessly vicious, and this role requires an energetic and obsessive performance. Intense, mercurial, riveting, charming, and frightening.

PAUL SHELDON (male, middle-aged) - Author of a series of best-selling romance novels who becomes totally immobile and in great pain after a car crash. He is utterly dependent on Annie. The hero of the story, Paul is motivated by survival. He is intelligent and charming, but physically incapacitated and somewhat helpless.

BUSTER (male, any age) - Local sheriff, friendly, a guy's guy