Indy Theatre Habit

I received an email last night from The Theater Within’s artstic director, Rod Isaac, announcing their season for 2010.  It looks like a nicely manageable but still intriguing and discussable mix.  There is a spring show, a summer show, and a fall show.

The Twilight of the Golds

by Jonathan Tolins

Auditions: Jan. 17 & 18, 2010

Performances: March 12-27, 2010

If your parents knew everything about you before you were born, would you be here? That is the question posed in this entertaining drama. All is well when Suzanne Gold and her close New York family discover that she is pregnant, until a prenatal test reveals that the baby will most likely be homosexual. The news forces the entire Gold family to confront issues of bigotry, evolution and the limits of love.

Needed are:

 Two men stage age 20’s to mid 30’s

One man stage age 50’s-60’s

One woman stage age 20’s to mid 30’s

One woman stage age 50’s to 60’s

Proof

by David Auburn

Auditions: April 18 & 19, 2010

Performances: June 11-26, 2010

On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?

Needed are:

One woman stage age 20’s

One woman stage age 30’s

One man stage age 20’s

One man stage age 50’s to 60’s

Death and the Maiden

by Ariel Dorfman

 Auditions: Sept. 12 & 13, 2010

Performances: Nov. 5-20, 2010

Tony award winning Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman starred on Broadway in this political thriller. Set in an unnamed country that is, like the author’s native Chile, emerging from a totalitarian dictatorship, the play explores the after effects of repression on hearts and souls. Paulina Escobar’s husband Gerardo is to head an investigation into past human rights abuses. A Dr. Miranda stops at Escobars’ to congratulate Gerardo. Paulina overhears them speaking and is convinced that Miranda supervised her prison torture sessions. She ties him to a chair and conducts her own interrogation, gun in hand. Escobar doesn’t know whether to believe his distraught wife or his persuasive new friend. This white knuckle thriller is a riveting intellectual and emotional tug of war.

Needed are:

One woman stage age late 30’s to 40’s

One man stage age late 30’s to 40’s

One man stage age 40’s to 50’s

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 Click on the theater link at www.thechurchwithin.org

 Reminder:  I will post any theatre’s season announcement if someone from the theatre will email it to me in a simple (easy to cut-and-paste) email before the season begins.  My email is: amarylliswriter at gmail dot com.  I don’t usually post audition announcements, but since they were mixed in with this season announcement, I just left them in.

Always check with a theatre’s website to confirm dates and times.

Hope Baugh – www.IndyTheatreHabit.com and @IndyTheatre