"Uncommon Women and Others" Stage Play Casting Actors
Actors sought for play "Uncommon Women and Others". ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. See more info below. About the project: Synopsis: In a New York restaurant around 1977, five college friends from Mount Holyoke College reunite to catch up. After excitedly greeting one another, telling jokes, and catching up, they flashback to various important moments from their college days that have helped to define their post-graduate lives. Caught between traditionalist notions of womanhood and the novel feminist idea of unlimited opportunity, graduation forced each woman to make a choice that would determine their role in the world. It becomes clear that some of the women are exactly where they hoped to be, while others are still trying to find their way. Now six years later, with humorous banter and sober apprehension, the friends wonder if they have met their youthful expectations to be “uncommon” and where their lives as friends and individuals will take them. Rate: There will be a $25 stipend for actors. Additional info: Non union. POSSIBLE (IN-PERSON) CALLBACK DATES: 11/2, 11/3. Rehearsals to be based around actor availability within the months of November and December. Tech rehearsals TBD December 7-10. Performs December 11-13, 7pm (possible extension to December 14, 3pm). When applying, please include a headshot, resume, biographical information + social media. For your audition, include a link to a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue. Pieces with 1950-1980s tones and language are preferred. Also include availability for the months of November and December.
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An attractive woman, wry and cheerful. Muffet is stylish and attractive to men. Her friends would agree that she has charm. Muffet’s intelligence is quick but she never dotes on it.
Hair disheveled, yet well cut. She wears expensive clothes that don’t quite match, not because she doesn’t know what matches, but because she doesn't want to try too hard. That would be too embarrassing. Holly alternates between being a spectator and a spectacle. She has devised a strong moral code of warmth to those you love and wit to those you’re scared of.
In business suit, holding an attaché case that she is quite aware of. The case alternately makes her feel like a successful grown-up, or handcuffed. A handsome woman. She is composed and has always made a good impression. Life Muffet, she knows the potential of being attractive. Unlike Muffet, she’s not sure it’s nice, or the right image to let people know. Katie always walks with direction and that’s why it’s fun to make her stop and laugh.
A genuinely attractive woman. Quiet, tasteful, yet one would always notice her at a party. However, she would be so gracious in finding out what you do, that her work would always remain a suspicion. Samantha is like a Shetland cable knit sweater, a classic. The daughter of the mayor of Naperville, she is closet wit or she wouldn’t have made the friends she did in college.
In 1966 Rita Altabel won a D.A.R. scholarship to Mount Holyoke. In 1968 she walked through the Yale Cross Campus Library with the Yale Crew Team. Rita had cowbells on her dress. In 1976 she wasn’t sure if the C.I.A. had put L.S.D. into all polyester shirts. But she knew it was only safe to wear cotton. Rita refuses to live down to expectations. She shouldn’t worry about it, her imagination would never let her.
Housemother of North Stimson Hall. Mrs Plum, like the furniture, is straight-backed but cozy. You can’t help but giggle in her presence, and grow fonder of her dignity with hindsight.
Pink is her favorite color. Head of freshmen, co-ordinator of Father-Daughter weekend, Spring Weekend, Fall House Parties, the student faculty committee on library responsibility, and never, unfortunately, gets exhausted.
A frail girl in an oversized skirt and shirt that she wore all through prep school. Carter may seem catatonic, but she has a rich inner life - though it is up to debate whether she is a genius or just quiet. She is inner-directed.
Leilah, like Kate, is a handsome woman. In fact, she is second to Kate in her attractiveness and in her academic life. Leilah is serious and somehow seems distant from her friends. She is very tailored to the point of almost rigid. But behind her rigidity is a genuine kindness and a strong intellect. Leilah’s parents are probably high powered academics but she has not told them or her friends any of the fears and anxiety she is beginning to feel her senior year.
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