2010 Season Auditions!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the time has come upon us for us to take another look at the phenomenal talent which South Florida has to offer!

The Alliance Theatre Lab proudly announces the season auditions for its 2010 season! To quote playwright David Caudle: "Theatre today is blood and guts. You got blood in ya, you got guts, spill 'em out, man! Do your thing!" Actually, on second thought, please do not inflict any sort of self-harm during your audition; we'd have to make Amy get the mop, and then there's all the paperwork to fill out, and the harsh interrogation techniques by the cops, and Albert just hates getting waterboarded on suspicion on murder, so perhaps it's best if you just give us a couple of contrasting monologues, a headshot and resume, and bribing the directors with a little chocolate never hurt (and maybe a doggie biscuit for Iago).

ANNOUNCING SEASON AUDITIONS FOR THE ALLIANCE THEATRE LAB

Auditions will be held Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15 from 11 am - 5 pm each day, with Season callbacks being held the following weekend at the same time. Auditions are by appointment only. Each actor is asked to bring 2 contrasting monologues, plus head shots and resumes. Time slots are 10 minutes each. Please contact the Alliance Theatre Lab at thealliancelab@aol.com or (305) 259-0418 to request an audition slot. Leave your name, contact number, day/time preferred and Equity status.

2010 SEASON PLAY AND CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

ORPHANS by Lyle Kessler - March 18-April 4, 2010
Two brothers are taken under the wing of a shady businessmen.

• Phillip: Male, early 20's. Illiterate, innocent, but intelligent in his way. Longs for companionship.
• Treat: Male, late 20's. Phillip's older brother, a thug. Keeps Phillip dependent upon him.
• Harold: Male, 40's - 50's. Small-time gangster who "adopts" the brothers.

Orphans is the story of two brothers - Phillip, a wildchild naif whose illiteracy and innocence belie a feral intelligence; and Treat, a switchblade-wielding thief who manipulates his brother into remaining dependent on him. Into this den of dysfunction comes Harold, a not-so-legitimate businessman who takes the "Dead End Kids" under his tutelage. At its core, Orphans is a warped father-and-son story, with all of the realism and none of the saccharine.

COYOTE ON A FENCE by Bruce Graham - June 10-27, 2010
Two death-row inmates wait for their impending executions.

• John: White Male, mid-30's-40's. Highly educated inmate who murdered a drug dealer. Editor of a prison newsletter that rants against the death penalty.
• Bobby: White Male, 20's. Simple, highly religious inmate. Member of the Aryan Nation.
• Shawna: Female, late 20's - early 40's. Prison guard who tries to repress her guilt over the executions.
• Sam: Jewish Male/Female, 20's-40's. Reporter doing a story on John and his prison paper. Torn between John's insistence upon neutrality and his/her own feelings regarding Bobby.

This "thought-provoking work about man's inhumanity to man" (The Stage) examines capital punishment through the differing viewpoints of two death-row inmates. John, a well-educated liberal who rages against the practice that will end his life at the point of a hypodermic needle, gets a new cell-mate: Bobby, an unabashed racist and anti-Semite who looks at his execution as the gateway to the God who told him to kill.


A SKULL IN CONNEMARA by Martin McDonagh - November 2010
A dark comedy revolving around Mick Dowd, whose job is to empty graves over seven years old in order to make room for new occupants.

• Mick Dowd: Male, 40's-50's. Town gravedigger.
• Maryjohnny Rafferty: Female, late 50's-60's. Gossipy grandmother with a taste for Irish moonshine.
• Mairtin: Male, mid-late teens. Maryjohnny's grandson; juvenile delinquent.
• Thomas: Male, mid-late 20's. Mairtin's older brother; town policeman who dreams of being a "real" cop.

The second play in McDonagh's Lennane trilogy. Set in Galway, Ireland, A Skull in Connemara introduces us to a quartet of besotted, beguiling characters, whose empty lives are filled with sly gossip, witty banter, and rotgut poteen. Mick's job is to clear out old graves in the overflowing cemetery in order to make room for new burials. But when the time comes for his deceased wife Oona's grave to be emptied, old rumors of how Oona really died start spreading, mallets start coming out, and bits of tibia and ulna start flying about the stage.