Possum Point Players and Director Meg Kelly announce auditions for an early summer production of the Noel Coward comedy “Hay Fever.” Auditions are 6:00 pm Sunday, March 8, and 6:00 pm, Tuesday, March10; call backs are Wednesday, March 11, if needed. Auditions are at Possum Hall Theatre, 441 Old Laurel Rd., Georgetown. Performance dates are June 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14.
Rehearsals are set to start April 6, with a full calendar of rehearsals to be scheduled following casting.
All characters are British and auditions will consist of readings from the script. The cast requires five females, early 20s to mid-40s, one 50s, and four males, 20s to mid-40s.
Possum Point Players values diversity and inclusion in casting, and in all other areas of the organization.
Character descriptions:
Sorel – 19. She is graceful and pretty. But has an air of entitlement about her. She is the only Bliss who recognizes their abnormalities and tries to be more like “real” people and less like her mother. She does not succeed!
Simon – early 20’s. He is an artist – or at least thinks of himself as an artist. He can be slightly manic at times.
Clara – 50’s. May have slight cockney or Irish accent – at least not as crisp British as others. She will treat the guests with a careless disdain and the Bliss family members with a definite casualness.
Judith – early to mid-40s. She is not necessarily beautiful but “made thousands think I was.” She believes in her own “Celebrated Actress Glamour.” Sings and plays piano.
David – mid 40s – 50. Absent-minded professor quality. But can be theatrical in his own way.
Sandy Tyrell – mid 20s. Very physically fit. Has a naiveté about him and an excitement about being in Judith’s presence.
Myra Arundel – late 30’s – early 40’s. Judith describes her as “a vampire.” While outwardly very socially correct, she craves the limelight that comes with being associated with people who are known.
Richard Greatham – early 40’s. Socially and politically correct but attracted to the wildness he sees first in Sorel and then in Judith.
Jackie Coryton – early 20s. Absolutely a naïve ingenue – but with a tinge of the “nervous Nellie.”