Casting Performers for "Wit" Show
The company is holding auditions for "Wit" Show and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: Vivian Bearing, 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 terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience. Additional info: Performances: February 1st, 2nd, 6th and 8th Rehearsals: November 24th to January 31st. Rehearsals tentatively planned for Sunday afternoons and Monday and Wednesday evenings, plus two Thursday evenings (Dec 12 and Jan 9), and tech week January 26th – 30th. Please apply to sign up for a slot.
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A professor of seventeenth-century poetry, diagnosed with stage IV, metastatic ovarian cancer.
Chief of medical oncology at the University Hospital. (This actor will double as MR. BEARING, Vivian’s father.)
Clinical fellow at the Medical Oncology branch; former student of Dr. Bearing.
Dr. Bearing's primary nurse
Professor emerita of English literature; Vivian's former college professor
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