Agnes of God

Actor's Café

Auditions:
7pm
Sunday,
March 7,
2010

Callbacks:
TBD

Ages 18 & Older

Auditions for Agnes of God -- directed by Desert Stages Theatre Artistic Director Terry Helland
Sunday, Mar. 7th, 7pm
Desert Stages Theatre
4720 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale (SW corner E. Highland Ave. & N. Scottsdale Road)
*No appt. required
In Actor’s Café at the Theatre
Call backs TBD

Agnes of God is a play by John Pielmeier which tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth and insists that the dead child was the result of a virgin conception. A psychiatrist and the mother superior of the convent clash during the resulting investigation. This play was later made into a film starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly.

DRESS.  Be prepared for movement. No flip-flops please.

AGE GROUPS.  Ages 18 and older. 

Agnes of God Cast of Characters:

• Mother
• Sister
• Doctor

Art

Actor's Café

Auditions:
7pm
Monday,
March 8,
2010

Callbacks:
TBD

Ages 18 & Older

Auditions for Art -- directed by Mark Clemente
Sunday, Mar. 8th, 7pm
Desert Stages Theatre
4720 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale (SW corner E. Highland Ave. & N. Scottsdale Road)
*No appt. required
In Actor’s Café at the Theatre
Call backs TBD

Art, a comedy, set in Paris, the story revolves around three friends-Serge, Marc and Yvan-who find their previously solid 15-year friendship on shaky ground when Serge buys an expensive painting. The canvas is white, with a few white lines.
 
Serge is proud of his 200,000 franc acquisition fully expecting the approval of his friends.
 
Marc disdainfully rejects the painting his friend purchases.  But is it the painting that offends him, or the uncharacteristic independence-of-thought that the purchase reveals in Serge?
 
For the insecure Yvan, burdened by the problems of his impending wedding and his dissatisfaction at his job as a stationery salesman, their friendship is his sanctuary...but his attempts at peace-making backfire. Eager to please he laughs about the painting with Marc but tells Serge he likes it. Pulled into the disagreement, his vacillations fuel the blazing row.
 
Lines are drawn and they square off over the canvas, using it as an excuse to relentlessly batter one another over various failures. As their arguments become less theoretical and more personal, they border on destroying their friendship. 
 
Winner of the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play. Winner of the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Comedy. "Art" is funny, sophisticated, stylish, stimulating and moving!!

DRESS.  Be prepared for movement. No flip-flops please.

AGE GROUPS.  Ages 18 and older. 

Art Cast of Characters:

• Serge
• Marc
• Yvan