Casting Performers for "The Importance Of Being Earnest" Play
Talents is required to audition for "The Importance Of Being Earnest". Please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. About the project: John Worthing is leading a double life. In his posh London flat, he’s known as the dashing and playful Ernest, but in his country estate, he’s simply the responsible and respectable Jack. When his charming and trouble-making best friend Algernon discovers John’s schemes, he takes on his own alternate identity and poses as Jack’s brother, leading to a complex series of misunderstandings and farcical situations. Oscar Wilde’s enduring 1895 comedy playfully skewers the mannered conventions of social class, marriage, gender, and religion with charm and wit.? Rate: Non-equity, no pay, no fees. Additional info: WHAT TO PREPARE: -1-2 minute comedic monologue. -British (RP) accent strongly preferred for all roles. CALLBACKS date and time: Monday, June 9th: 7 pm-10 pm PERFORMANCES dates and times: Friday, August 22nd at 7:30 pm Saturday, August 23rd at 2:00 pm Saturday, August 23rd at 7:30 pm Sunday, August 24th at 2:00 pm If interested, please apply.
9 roles
(“Algy”): He is a dashing man-about-town, good-looking, charming and thoroughly sophisticated. His taste in clothes is impeccable. ?
(“Jack”): He, too, is a good-looking man-about-town, but a little more serious-minded, and he lacks some of Algy’s brittle sophistication.
(Algy’s Manservant): Lane is the perfect manservant, unquestioning and never smiling.
(A Woman of Importance): She is a woman of ample proportions, the ultimate in a dowager of high society. Lady Bracknell never lacks for words, and she makes every word count, savoring each one down to the last syllable.
(Lady Bracknell’s daughter): Gwendolen is an attractive, charming, straightforward girl who is in love with Jack and determined to marry him in spite of all obstacles. ?
(Cecily’s Tutor): She is a plain, spinsterly-looking woman in her fifties, whose only passion, apparently, is a devotion to her work.
(Jack’s Ward): She is just eighteen, pretty, impressionable and romantically inclined.
(Butler to Jack): He is the perfect butler, efficient and unassuming. Rev.
(Rector of Woolton): He is a slightly pompous, stuffy man with a romantic eye for Miss Prism.
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