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.