Wit
by Margaret Edson
Auditions
Audition Dates: Monday & Tuesday - March 29 & 30, 2010
Time: 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm, please register by 9pm)
Callbacks: Thursday, April 1 (time/place TBA)
Location: Industrial Strength Theatre (269 Sunset Park Dr, Herndon)
Audition Format: Cold readings from
the script
Casting: 3 women, 2 men, plus 4 ensemble
Women: 1 - 50 year old, 1 - in her 30s, 1 - 70-80 year old
who can pass for 50
Men: 1 - in his 30s, 1 - 50-60 year old
Ensemble: 4 - actors (male or female) to portray various
roles (technicians, clinical fellows, students) who all have lines
Audition Preparation: Familiarity with the script recommended
About the Show:
Wit, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, is a work that is intellectually
challenging and emotionally immediate. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned
professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and
difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with termianl
ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne is aggressively probing,
intensely rational. But duriing the course of her illness and her stint as a
prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching
hospital, Vivian comes to reassess her life and work with a profundity and humor
that are transformative both for her and the audience.
Director - Gloria DuGan
Producer - Janet Bordeaux
Performance Dates: June 4 - 26, 2010
All roles are volunteer
positions.
More information/directions may be available by calling 703-481-5930.
