An Inspector Calls - Set Construction

Set Construction for An Inspector Calls continues apace! Future dates include:

Saturday August 29 from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.

Sunday, August 30 from 1 P.M. to 4 P.M.

Saturday, September 5 from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.

Sunday, September 6 from 1 P.M. to 4 P.M.

An Inspector Calls - Cast List

Congratulations to the cast of

An Inspector Calls

George Anderson

(Arthur Birling)

Heather Blanchard

(Sheila Birling)

Colin Harvey

(Eric Birling)

Jon Lewis

(the Inspector)

Desiree Trudy

(Edna)

Evan White

(Gerald Croft)

Pearl Woolam

(Sybil Birling)

Dear Brutus Reading - Auditions (now with more info!)

Dear Brutus Auditions

This Friday, August 28th

6-9pm

CLOTA Center Stage, 1425 N. Inyo St

there will be cold readings & a bit of silliness

there will be some movement in the production

Characters

5m, 6w, 1 either gender

Narrator, any age/gender, can handle long monologues and give them a Rod Serling/Twilight Zone feel.

Mrs Coade (Coady, ), 50+, "the nicest", "a rounded old lady with a beaming smile."

Mrs Dearth (Alice), late-20's-40's, "of the smouldering eye and fierce desires, most beautiful when she is sullen"; "first of all a whimperer"

Mrs Purdie (Mabel), 20's-40's, "soft and pleading"; "a charming confection."

Joanna Trout, 20's-40's, "a bright spirit… but at the word 'love' she quivers, her sense of humour ceases to beat"; "an unhappy lady who has got what she wanted."

Lady Caroline Laney, 20's-40's, "of the disdainful poise, lately from the enormously select school where they are taught to pronounce their r's as w's"; "The more happily married lady," is still firmly in possession of her r's.

Matey, 20's-30's the butler, "a man of brawn"; "exuding affluence"

Lob, 400+, their host, "rather like what Puck might have grown into if he had forgotten to die."

Mr Coade (Coady), 50+, "a sweet pippin of an old man with a gentle smile for all"; "seen pirouetting charmingly among the trees, his new occupation."

Mr Purdie, 20's-40's, "the most brilliant of our company," a passionate and earnest philanderer in either world.

Mr Dearth, 30's-40's, "Not so much a man… as the relic of what has been a good one"; "ablaze in happiness and health."

Margaret, 15-16, "She is as lovely as you think she is, and she is aged the moment when you like your daughter best"

ETA: Most of the characters have two distinct personalities, thus the copious abuse of the semi-colon in their discriptions.

the play can be found in its entirety by clicking

here.

An Inspector Calls - Auditions! (now with more info)

AUDITIONS

for

J.B. Priestly's

AN INSPECTOR CALLS

directed by Sue Roser

will be held

Friday, August 21, 6pm

&

Saturday, August 22. noon

@ CLOTA Center Stage

1425 N. Inyo St

Characters:

Mr Birling - mid-fifties, a self-made man of the upper-middle class

Mrs Birling - fifty, cold, her husband's social superior

Sheila Birling - early-twenties, pretty and pleased with life.

Eric Birling - early-twenties, "not quite at ease, half shy half assertive"

Gerald Croft - thirty, Sheila's fiance, "a well-bred young man-about-town"

Inspector Goole - from the police, mysterious and controlling.

Edna - the Birling's parlourmaid

*All characters require an English accent.

Auditions will consist of scenes read from the script & some movement.

Copies of the script are available for perusal at Red Rock Books and Ridgecrest Public Library.

Rehearsals will begin Monday, August 24 & will run Monday-Thursday evenings.

Performance Dates: October 2, 3, 9, 10, 11 (matinee), 16 & 17.

Dear Brutus Reading - Auditions

Auditions for Center Stage Reader's presentations of

J. M. Barrie's "Dear Brutus"

will be held @ CLOTA Center Stage

Friday, August 28 6-9pm

Set Construction Begins

Set Construction for "An Inspector Calls" will begin

Saturday, August 15, 10 A.M. til 1 P.M.

& Sunday, August 16, from 1 P.M. to 4 P.M.

Please come to help if you have time.

The Importance of Being Earnest - This Weekend ONLY

THIS WEEKEND ONLY

CLOTA's Center Stage Readers

Present

Oscar Wilde's

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

directed by Carrie Trickey

Saturday August 8 @ 7:30pm

&

Sunday August 9 @ 2pm

Admission is FREE

Donations are greatly appreciated.

The Grape Vine, August '09

Welcome to August'09's Grape Vine

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Picture This: The Importance of Earnest Rehearsal

Rehearsals continue apace, as CLOTA's Center Stage Readers prepare for their performances this weekend, August 8 @ 7:30 & August 9 @2pm