Peridot Auditions

Season 2010	Play	Audition Date	Contact
Season 1	"Time of My Life"	Sunday 15/11 at 2.00pm	Ewen Crockett - 0414 991 141
Season 2	"The Dixie Swim Club"	Sunday 14/2 at 1.00pm & Monday 15/2 at 7.30pm	Denise Wellington - 9571 1221 or 0410 246 667
One Act Play	"The Importance of Being George"	Wednesday 31/3 at 7.30pm	Annette De Boer - 9729 0730 or Robyn on 9898 9090
One Act Play	"The Odd Fib"	Wednesday 7/4 at 7.30pm	Deborah Fabbro - 9527 2681
Season 3	"Sandcastles"	No Auditions
Season 4	"Cosi"	Sunday 18/7 at 1.00pm & Monday 19/7 at 7.30pm	Malcolm Sussman - 9753 5078 or 0417 141 803

Details for Season 4 are below.

Auditions for "Cosi" by Louis Nowra.
Directed by Malcolm Sussman:

We will be holding Auditions on Sunday July 18th at 1.00pm and Monday July 19th at 7.30pm at the Unicorn Theatre.

Venue:

Unicorn Theatre, Mount Waverley Secondary College. Lechte Road, Mount Waverley

Characters:

Lewis – In his twenties, young, compassionate, naïve – a bridge between the audience and the inmates.

Roy – Forty to fifty. Irrepressible, permanently at loggerheads with Lewis over ‘production values,’ annoying in the extreme but like a child, rather loveable and vulnerable too.

Doug – In his twenties or thirties, a pyromaniac who can be hilariously funny but at the same time strangely disturbing. Not the sort of person you’d fancy as your next door neighbour.

Cherry – Probably in her thirties, loud and outrageous, has a crush on Lewis.

Ruth – Forties, extremely shy and withdrawn, Cherry’s opposite.

Henry – Forty to fifty, also extremely withdrawn. Fiercely patriotic and conservative, deeply loyal to the memory of his father, who was a soldier.

Zac – A musician (twenties or thirties) who has spent much of his adult life in mental institutions. Dosed up on lithium, he regularly collapses into a drug-induced slumber.

Julie – (Twenties) Drug dependent, she has been institutionalised by her parents – Lewis’ love interest after the break-up with Lucy.

Justin - (could be a ‘Justine’ if we have a shortage of men), age immaterial, unless doubled with Nick, a social worker who is more into process than compassion.

Nick – (Twenties) A student activist leading demonstrations against the Vietnam War and a ‘serious’ play director, who is singularly lacking in integrity and compassion in his private life – “all tip and no iceberg”.

Lucy - (Twenties, could be doubled with Julie) Supposedly, Lewis’ girlfriend, she finds Nick’s agenda more to her liking than Lewis’ new found commitment to what she terms “reactionary drivel”.

Season Dates:

November 5th - 20th, 2010

Enquiries:

To the Director, Malcolm Sussman - 9753 5078 or 0417 141 803.

Synopsis:

Cosi is the touching and hilarious story of Lewis Riley a young, inexperienced university student who is hired by a psychiatric institute to direct a play as part of the hospital’s therapeutic program. The venue is a theatre that smells of “burnt wood and mould”, the cast are patients with very diverse needs and the play is Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte (Women Are Like That). Roy a patient demands the Mozart work, but his fellow inmates are neither opera singers nor Italian speakers and Lewis’ problems don’t end there. Through working with the patients, Lewis eventually discovers a new side of himself which allows him to become emotionally involved and to value love, while anti-Vietnam war protests erupt in the streets outside.

Play Reading:

An informal play reading of "Cosi" will be held on July 7th at the Unicorn Theatre at 7.30pm. Enquiries to Alison Knight by email .