Davidson Community Players will hold auditions Dec. 14-15 for adult actors in a pair of shows: Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “How I Learned to Drive” and “The Bully Show,” an interactive play for youth by Brian Guehring.
Auditions will be Sunday, Dec. 14, and Monday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. at the Players’ Armour Street Theatre, 307 Armour St. Call backs will be Tuesday, Dec. 16, for “How I Learned to Drive,” and Wednesday, Dec. 17, for “The Bully Show.”
Actors cast in The Bully Show must have daytime availability on several Thursdays and Fridays in late February/early March. If auditioning, please arrive no later than 8 p.m. Cold readings from the scripts will be conducted. Please bring a picture and resume, as well of your list of conflicts.
ABOUT THE PLAYS
How I Learned to Drive: Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. Co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Co-winner of the 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding play. Vogel has written a wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man. “How I Learned to Drive” is the story of a woman who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel. The Village Voice called it “quite simply, the sweetest and most forgiving play ever written about child abuse…” **Mature Content**
Roles Available: Lil Bit, ages from 40+ to 11 years old; Peck: Attractive man in his 40’s, Lil Bit’s uncle; The Greek Chorus: 3 roles, 1 actor, 2 actresses.
Rehearsals will begin in early February. The production opens March 19, 2009 at the Armour Street Theatre and will be directed by Mark Sutch.
The Bully Show: “The Bully Show” opens with the audience arriving at the live taping of the pilot episode of a new TV game show called “You Wanna Be a Bully.” The audience members, who are chosen to become contestants, play games to identify who could be a bully or which scenes show bullying. As the game show progresses, the assistants try to stand up for the contestants, who are being made fun of by the host. Eventually the host pushes them too far and the whole game show grinds to a halt. “The Bully Show” challenges upper elementary and middle school students to reconsider some of their assumptions about bullies and victims, to realize some of the consequences of bullying, and to stimulate further discussions on this issue.
Roles available for 4 adult actors (male or female).
Rehearsals for The Bully Show will begin in mid-January. The production opens at the Armour Street Theatre on Feb. 27, and will tour area schools on Thursdays and Fridays Feb. 27, March 5 and 6 and March 12 and 13. Actors must have daytime availability for these performances. The production will be directed by Casey Jacobus.
