Announcing Auditions for Two Rooms by Lee Blessing

Directed by Coleman Crenshaw

Olathe Community Theatre Association
500 E Loula Street
Olathe, KS 66061-5402

4 roles available: 2 women, 2 men.

Open Call Auditions on Dec 6^th: 7pm to 10pm at OCTA.  Audition times assigned upon arrival.

Possible Call-Backs Dec 12^th at 6pm (if necessary and by invitation only).

Auditions will consist of short dramatic monologue (memorized if possible) of less than 2 minutes and cold readings from the script.

Production dates are Feb 17^th to March 4^th.  Rehearsals will begin Jan 8^th (Sundays – Wednesdays mostly until Feb).

ABOUT THE PLAY:

The two rooms of the title are a windowless cubicle in Beirut where an American hostage is being held by terrorists and a room in his home in the United States, which his wife has stripped of furniture so that, at least symbolically, she can share his ordeal.  In fact the same room serves for both and is also the locale for imaginary conversations between the hostage and his wife, plus the setting for the real talks she has with an ambitious reporter and a determined State Department official.

Lee Blessing’s taut psychodrama focuses on an intensely personal story of love, separation, and hope.  Yet Blessing carries the audience through the three perspectives of the individual, the public, and the government and their struggles to respond to the new world of global terrorism.

In the end, there are no winners, only losers, and the sense of futility and despair that comes when people of goodwill realize that logic, compassion and fairness have become meaningless when dealing with those who would commit such barbarous acts so willingly.

CHARACTERS:

Michael Wells — educator

Lainie Wells — educator, married to Michael

Walker Harris — reporter

Ellen Van Oss — representative of the State Department