"Birthday Candles" Audition for the Theater
Auditions for the "Birthday Candles" play. Directors are looking for performers. Please see the details below. About the project: SYNOPSIS - "Ernestine Ashworth spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough, it's her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41". her 70%. Her 101". Five generations, an infinity of dreams, and once cake baked over a century." Additional info: IMPORTANT - There will be intimacy (think kisses, hugs, and some lowkey dancing) and the actor playing Ernestine must be comfortable preparing, baking, and icing a cake on stage. To be considered, please apply.
13 roles
Travels from age seven to 107. In that time she will be a daughter, a girlfriend, a wife, a mother, a friend, an aunt, a mother-in-law, a widow, a second wife, a grandmother, a great grandmother, and a great-great grandmother.
Selfless. Strong. Ernestine's mother.
Troubled. Bemused. Beautiful. Erudite. Ernestine and Matt's daughter.
Ethereal. Vivacious. She doesn't walk, she glides. Alex's daughter.
Ernestine's awkward and annoying next door neighbor.
Chiseled jawline. A middle linebacker on the high school football team. Ernestine's boyfriend then husband.
Thirteen. Grand.
Sensitive. An ear for music. Ernestine and Matt's son.
A man woken up in the middle of the night.
Anxious. Very anxious. Billy's wife.
Takes no bullshit. Billy and Joan's daughter.
John's domestic partner, she quit smoking ten years ago and hasn't been in a good mood since.
Goldfish. May actually be "the divinity within yourself". Must be able to play 108 versions oneself.
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