Goshen Players Auditions - "A Wrinkle in Time"

Naugatuck CT

07 March, 2022

3:55 PM

Description

Audition Notice: Goshen Players is excited to announce auditions for "A Wrinkle in Time" adapted for the stage by James Sie, from the Newbery Medal award winning novel by Madeleine L'Engle. Auditions will be held at the Old Town Hall at 2 North Street, Goshen, CT(on the rotary) on Saturday March 19th and Sunday March 20th from 3 - 5 PM. This production will be directed by Jen Gleason. We'll be casting a diverse cast of strong actors of all ages who can move well. Those auditioning will be asked to read a scene from the script which will be provided at the audition. Come prepared to share your calendar conflicts. Appointments are not needed. "A Wrinkle in Time" will be performed June 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th at 7 PMand June 5th and 12th at 3 PM. There will be additional performances at 10:30 AM scheduled on June 3rd and 10th. Anyone cast in the show must be available for these performances. Rehearsals will begin on Monday, June 27th and are tentatively scheduled for Sunday, Monday and Wednesday evenings. Cast members will be required to attend all tech-week rehearsals May 29th through June 2nd. Email [email protected] with any questions. Synopsis: Adapted from Madeleine L'Engle's much-loved classic tale, one of literature's most enduring young heroines, Meg Murry, is back stubbornness and all. Joining forces with her baby brother Charles Wallace, friend and neighbor Calvin O'Keefe, and the celestial beings Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which, she must battle the forces of evil in order to rescue her father, save humanity, and discover herself. Traveling through time and space, Meg must save both her father and the world from IT, an evil force that is rapidly casting its shadow over the universe. But what does Meg have that the IT does not? Love. For in the end, love is enough to overcome evil and bring IT's dark world crashing down. We will be casting the following characters:Meg Murry - The character is 14, but we are looking for a youth or adult actor in the 14-24 age range who looks young for her age. Meg is extremely smart but doesn't think of herself that way. She is emotionally expressive and wears her heart on her sleeve. She doesn't fit in at school, and the gossip about her father's disappearance is a great source of shame and anger for her. Charles Wallace Murry - Meg's baby brother. The character is age 5, but we are looking for a child actor in the 8-13 year old age range who is small statured and looks young for his age. Charles has a very high IQ and sometimes speaks like an adult, although he is really very young and innocent. Calvin O'Keefe - The character is 14, but we are looking for a youth or adult actor in the 14-24 age range who looks young for his age. Calvin fits in well at school where he plays basketball and is popular. He has skipped grades and is a junior in high school. His family life is less successful; he is from a family with a lot of children but not a lot of money or time and he often gets ignored. He is sensitive and understanding and brave. Mrs. Whatsit (adult role) - The youngest of the three celestial beings who accompany the children on their adventure. Meg initially comes to know Mrs. Whatsit as the tramp who stole bed-sheets from their neighbors and then sought shelter from a storm in the Murrys' warm kitchen. She later learns that Mrs. Whatsit gave up her existence as a star in order to fight the Dark Thing Mrs. Who (adult role) - The oldest of the three celestial beings who accompany the children on their adventure. Mrs. Which has difficulty materializing and is usually just a shimmering gleam. Her unconventional speech is usually rendered in capitalized words, with the first consonants repeated several times. Mrs. Which (adult role) - The second of the three celestial beings who accompany the children on their adventure. She usually speaks in quotations from famous thinkers and writers because she finds it too difficult to craft her own sentences. When the children first meet Mrs. Who, she is sewing sheets in the haunted house in their neighborhood.Mr. Murry - (adult role) Meg's father and a physicist who works for a top-secret government agency on experiments with travel through space-time in the fifth dimension. In trying to tesser to Mars (i.e., travel through a tesseract, or wrinkle in time), he is captured and imprisoned on the dark planet of Camazotz. When the plot begins, no one on Earth has heard from him for over a year. Ensemble - we will be casting an ensemble of 6 - 10 actors of all ages. These actors will be asked to play multiple roles and are an integral part of our story. Roles include Meg's mother, teacher, principal Jenkins, Chris Henderson, postmistress, happy medium, Aunt Beast, Camazotians and more. Actors must be able to move well.