Auditions 2019-04: Screwball Comedy
THE ROYAL CANADIAN THEATRE COMPANY
presents
| Norm Foster’s SCREWBALL COMEDY | |
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| Runs: | 2020: March 5th – April 25th |
| Location(s): | Surrey, New Westminster, Maple Ridge, Coquitlam, Chilliwack & Vancouver |
| Rehearsals: | 2020: February 17 – TWO WEEKS in Surrey, BC |
| Callbacks: | 2019: April 28th |
| Auditions: | 2019: April 26th & 27th |
| Deadline: | MUST submit by 2020: April 25th |
| Western Canadian Premiere – Directed by Ellie King |
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| Contact name: TBA |
| Electronic head-shots & bios will be accepted. Only those invited to audition will be contacted. |
| Email applications to: production@rctheatreco.com |
| Royal Canadian Theatre Company is committed to intersectionality in all areas of casting, production staffing and management. |
| Equity actors will be hired under the terms of the DOT agreement. |
| Sides available on Google Drive. |
| NOTE: This play is a spoof of the Screwball Comedy genre of Hollywood movies from the 1930s and 1940s. We encourage actors to familiarize themselves with the style. |
| Character | Ages | Description |
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| Actor 1 – JEFF | 20’s – 30’s | A womanizing reporter for a popular newspaper. Charming. |
| Actor 2 – MARY | 20 – 30’s | An ambitious and spunky young woman vying for a journalism position on the same newspaper. Ambitious. |
| Actor 3 – Reginald | older | Actor 3 plays 4 different roles! a proper English Butler |
| Actor 3 – Bosco | middle aged-ish | crusty editor of the newspaper |
| Actor 3 – Peter | upper crust American playboy, older – middle aged | |
| Actor 3 – Chauncey | younger | apparently dumb upper crust American playboy |
| Actor 4 – Jonesy | younger | Actor 4 plays 3 different roles! spunky receptionist for the newspaper, younger |
| Actor 4 – Delores | middle aged | upper crust American matron, middle aged |
| Actor 4 – Gloria | 30’s – 40’s | femme fatale, hard to pin an age, possibly 30/40s |
Synopsis:
It’s 1938 and Jeff Kincaid is falling down on the job of reporting for a major newspaper. Young Mary arrives in the office looking to be hired as a journalist. Bosco, the crusty editor, sends them out together to report on the upcoming weddings of a local society mother and her dimwitted son. But all is not as it seems, and Jeff and Mary find themselves trying to help solve a mystery while at the same time keeping their growing mutual attraction under control.
Crackling, super fast dialogue: Hollywood movie stereotypes: multiple characters: this is a challenging and affectionate spoof by one of Canada’s most successful and popular playwrights.