Coffee/Manchester: Auditions For Teen Actors Guild Production October 18 & 20

 

Auditions will be held at the Millennium Repertory Company 128 East Main Street Manchester.

Auditions for the Teen Actors Guild production of

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡
by Oscar Wilde​

directed by Jamie Kate Duke
Saturday, October 18 4:00 PM
Monday, October 20 6:30 PM

Performance Dates: January 16 -18, 23 - 25​​

9 strong comedic actors needed, ages 13 - 19.

Perhaps the original screwball romcom!
Jack and Algernon invent fake identities so they can slip away from their everyday lives for a bit of romance and fun. Things get complicated when they both pretend to be named Ernest while courting two women.

Auditions will consist of cold reads from the script. You can read the play at bit.ly/4gVURVW or at many other sites online; watch on YouTube (for example at bit.ly/46wohXa); or any of several movies.​

Please prepare a short comedic monologue (one minute or less).​ British/Scottish/Irish accents encouraged.

Please preregister for auditions at https://forms.gle/Frzp11yJ7zPoTHr96

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Character descriptions:

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Jack Worthing: Smart, sincere, and secretly living a double life. Pretending to be “Ernest” to escape to the city and chase love.

Algernon Moncrieff: Wild, witty, and always up for mischief. He lives for clever wordplay, cucumber sandwiches, and stirring up trouble.

Gwendolen Fairfax: Elegant, confident, delightfully dramatic. She knows what she wants: a man named Ernest.

Cecily Cardew: Sweet, imaginative, and secretly rebellious. Her diary is full of imaginary romantic adventures.

Lady Bracknell: Commanding, opinionated, intense. The ultimate authority figure. Tries to run everyone’s life.

Miss Prism: Proper, prim, scatterbrained. She is Cecily’s tutor, but she’s hiding a few secrets of her own.

Rev. Chasuble: Gentle, well-meaning, awkward. The local clergyman with a soft spot for Miss Prism.

Lane and Merriman: Servants in the households of Algernon and Jack. Both solemnly watch their employers act like idiots, and sometimes save them