AUDITION NOTICE

The Gin Game by D. L. Coburn

Equity Principal Auditions by Appointment SPT Category 2

Director: Lucinda Merry-Browne

First Rehearsal:	1/26/09
Opens:	2/20/09
Closes:	3/28/09

Regular Performance Dates: Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, Sunday afternoons

Audition Dates:
Saturday, July 26, 2008
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

The Bay Theatre Company
275 West Street 275 West Street
Annapolis, MD

Equity and Non-Equity actors welcome. Bring your headshot and resume, stapled together. Auditions will be cold readings from the script. Actors with a visual impairment, please notify audition coordinator to receive sides in advance. All roles paid.

Synopsis:

D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize winning comedy drama The Gin Game is a touching story of the developing relationship between two elderly people in a rest home. The play unfolds as Weller Martin teaches Fonsia Dorsey how to play gin rummy, while discussing issues such as society, the hospitals, money, families, and the rest home where they live. Coburn’s first play is a treat with witty dialog, clever subtext, and moving drama as Weller and Fonsia’s relationship grows.

Seeking:

Fonsia Dorsey: 60-70 At the beginning of the play she appears to be genteel and reserved; offended by any hint of profanity; later she is revealed to be more tough and embittered.

Weller Martin: 60-70 Sardonic; self-important; temperamental; a failed businessman who keeps himself busy playing cards.

To schedule an audition, please leave a message on the theater audition line (410) 268-1333 option 4. You may also email info@baytheatre.org. Please specific preferred audition date and location. Your audition request will be confirmed by phone or email.

Contacts:

Elizabeth Campbell, Audition Coordinator

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The Bay Theatre Company is a professional non-profit repertory theatre company located at 275 West Street in Annapolis, Maryland. It was founded in 2002 with a threefold mission: (1) to produce plays of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures; (2) to promote theatre education for students of all ages, and (3) to provide working opportunities for theatre artists. To fulfill this mission, the Bay Theatre Company produces four to five professional productions each year, employing experienced theatre artists and Actors’ Equity professionals, as well as recent theatre school graduates. In addition, the Company offers workshops and performance opportunities for students of all ages, both independently and in association with Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.