When

 

Auditions

December 1, 2014 (Monday) at 7:30pm

December 2, 2014 (Tuesday) at 7:30pm

 

Call-backs: (by invitation only)

December 4, 2014 (Thursday) at 7:30pm

 

* These will be CLOSED DOOR AUDITIONS *

Where

Bergen County Players
298 Kinderkamack Road
Oradell, NJ 07649

Roles

VIOLET WESTON - 65, wife, mother, drug addict; suffers from cancer of the mouth.  Devious and cynical; always speaks her mind with humor and an acid tongue.

BEVERLY WESTON - 69, husband of Violet.  Patriarch, prize winning poet, melancholy and soulful, a full-time alcoholic

BARBARA FORDHAM - 46, Violet and Beverly's daughter, going through a divorce, trying to hold her life,  as well as the family,  together.

BILL FORDHAM - 49, Barbara's philandering, estranged husband, college professor.

JEAN FORDHAM - 14, Barbara and Bill's daughter; pot smoker, precocious.  Has mature language and actions.

IVY WESTON - 44, Violet and Beverly's daughter, librarian, mousy; stayed at home to attend to parents, having an affair with her cousin.

KAREN WESTON - 40, Violet and Beverly's daughter, claims to always have been unhappy; lives in Florida with new fiancé.

MATTIE FAE AIKEN - 57, Violet's sister, overbearing, loud, funny.  Has been concealing a huge family secret.

CHARLIE AIKEN - 60, Mattie Fae's husband, sweet, compassionate, docile.

LITTLE CHARLES AIKEN - 37, Mattie Fae and Charlie's son, couch potato, simple minded. In love with Ivy.

STEVE - 50, Karen's fiancé, can be charming, but preys on the naive.  Sociopath, unreliable

JOHNNA - 26, Native American,  newly hired housekeeper.

SHERIFF- 47, old flame of Barbara's, stayed in the neighborhood

Setting:  A family home in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 60 miles northwest of Tulsa; 2007

This is a large scaled, multi-faceted play with many challenges for all characters.  They are intelligent, complex studies of unstable relationships.  Ages are of the characters, not necessarily the actor.  

For copies of script e-mail pjreitnauer@gmail.com