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Old Academy Players auditions for Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl.

Historic Old Academy Players featured the acting debuts of both Grace Kelly and Robert Prosky.

Old Academy Players will hold auditions for Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl on Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 10 am at 3544 Indian Queen Lane in East Falls (Philadelphia, PA 19129).

Old Academy Players welcomes new talent! Please note that we are a non-profit community theater and that all roles are performed on a volunteer basis. If you are auditioning for this show, please complete our Audition Form in advance of the audition. You can obtain the Audition Form if you go to our website at www.oldacademyplayers.org click on GET INVOLVED and then AUDITIONS.

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Eurydice (pronounced “yer-í-di-see”) by Sarah Ruhl

Auditions are Saturday, June 23, 2018, 10 am

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Performance dates are: November 2–18, 2018 (Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays Nov 11 and 18 at 2 pm).

Rehearsals will begin in early to mid August.

Cuttings from the script will be posted soon.

Actors of all ethnicities are encouraged to audition.

Cast list

  • Eurydice: 20’s, early 30’s. She loves books. She dies and goes to the Underworld.
  • Her Father: 40’s-60’s. He is dead and is reunited with Eurydice in the Underworld
  • Orpheus: her fiancé/husband, 20’s-30’s. A musician. He tries to bring Eurydice back from the Underworld.
  • A Nasty Interesting Man/Lord of the Underworld: any age. AKA Satan. A comic character.
  • Big Stone:
  • Little Stone:
  • Loud Stone: The stones are comic/obnoxious characters in the underworld. The playwright writes: “The stones might be played as though they are nasty children at a birthday party”. Any age or gender.

For more information, please contact the director, Jane Jennings, at janejenn@comcast.net.

Historic Old Academy Players, a member of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community theater located at 3544 Indian Queen Lane in East Falls (Philadelphia), the urban village on the Schuylkill River. Constructed in 1819, the Old Academy building has been the OAP home since 1932. Old Academy Players, providing continuous community theater since 1923, featured the acting debuts of both Grace Kelly and Robert Prosky.

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