Audition Notice

Margreta Stage Company of Essex Connecticut is holding auditions for the world premiere production of Wild Black Yonder a new play by local author and playwright Lary Bloom. This will be a full production presented at “The Kate” (The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center) in Old Saybrook November 12^th through the 15^th.

Auditions for both Equity and non-Equity performers will be held on Wednesday Aug. 19 and Thursday Aug. 20 from 6 to 9 PM at the Margreta Stage Studio in Essex Connecticut. Equity members will be on a Guest Artist contract. Non-Equity will be paid a small stipend.

The auditions will be by appointment only.  Interested parties should call the Margreta Stage office at 860-767-8943 to schedule an appointment.  Please prepare a two minute dramatic monologue and have available a resume and head shot.

Wild Black Yonder takes place today in California.

Auditions will be for the following roles:

Lenny – Mid-60’s, Jewish, career newspaper reporter and struggling writer from Cleveland. Also a Vietnam veteran attempting to find meaning from that war in a new book of non-fiction featuring Janet.

Janet – 60ish, Vietnam War widow who has yet to remarry. At one time a beauty, less so now. Grew up in Ohio, and converted to Judaism to marry Adam. Became a lawyer after her husband went MIA. Now lives in California with Edgar, and generally avoids life as best she can.  After 40 years, she still believes her husband is alive.

Edgar – 60ish, college professor of history, wine connoisseur, lives with Janet and has proposed marriage to her several times, only to be turned down.  

Adam – 20’s, Janet’s husband that we see in flash backs. Outgoing, Jewish, Air Force Officer, jet fighter navigator in Vietnam flying secret missions. We see Adam as he records cassette tapes as letters to his wife in the US.

Michelle – 20’s, Vietnamese-American, but total California girl. She is a waitress at a sushi fusion restaurant to put herself through law school. She is smart and witty. Her parents were refugees to the US, but they never talk about the past. Michelle waits on Lenny in the restaurant, and Lenny can tell she is of Vietnamese descent. He questions her as part of his research.

TBD Rehearsal schedule will begin on September 28^th.