East Falls Auditions for 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?'

Saturday, January 9, 2016 beginning at 1 pm – (Snow Date Sunday, January 10 at 1 pm) — Auditions for WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

Auditions for WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Edward Albee will be held on Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 1 pm at the Old Academy Players [www.oldacademyplayers.org], 3544 Indian Queen Lane, (East Falls) Philadelphia, PA 19129. Director Nancy Frick (ryterzbloc@msn.com) seeks 2 men and 1 woman for this June 2016 production.

Old Academy Players welcomes new talent! Please note we are a volunteer organization and all roles are unpaid.

Roles:
GEORGE: is an associate professor of history at a New England college. In his mid-forties, he should probably be further along in his career, but he has become “bogged down” in the history department. His marriage to Martha has degenerated into an ongoing battle of words and psychological games to get the upper hand. Highly articulate, George fights back using his wits, but Martha knows where to wound him at his most vulnerable points – his failures, his physical weakness, his passivity.

MARTHA: THE ROLE OF MARTHA HAS BEEN CAST.

NICK: has just become a new member of the biology faculty at the college. He is young, good-looking and physically fit. He seems the ideal man but he eventually reveals himself to have a hollow center. His plans to get ahead at the college include sleeping with pertinent faculty wives, including Martha. He admits to having married Honey because he thought she was pregnant and because her father was wealthy.

HONEY: is the petite, slim-hipped wife of Nick. On the surface she is sweet, gentle, eager to make a good impression, and prudish. She is also unable to handle her liquor, so her contributions to the conversation are minor at best. She defers to her husband, is easily offended and gives in to frequent bouts of vomiting.

If you are auditioning for a show, please download and complete our Audition Form http://www.oldacademyplayers.org/sites/default/files/Form%20-%20Auditions.pdf in advance of the audition.

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. If you are auditioning for the role of Honey, be prepared to do an “interpretive dance.” See Side 4 below. PDFs of the sides are posted at the link above so that you may review the scenes in advance.

Side 1 – George & Martha
Side 2 – George, Martha, Nick & Honey
Side 3 – George, Martha, Nick & Honey
Side 4 – Honey
Side 5 – Nick, Martha & George
Side 6 – Nick & George

Old Academy is a non-profit theater organization and all actors and staff are volunteer. Old Academy Players, providing continuous community theater since 1923 and featuring the acting debuts of both Grace Kelly and Robert Prosky, is a non-profit community theater in East Falls (Philadelphia) the urban village on the Schuylkill River. The Old Academy building was constructed in 1819 and has been the OAP home since 1932.