OPEN AUDITIONS FOR POUND
Come release your ‘dramatic chops’, your inner genius, inner avenger, inner fears and hopes – try out for this ensemble cast of four
Sunday, April 28th from 2-5 pm.
Auditions will be from cold readings (script asides will be provided)
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Playwright Sean O’Leary has given us dramatic proof that WORDS MATTER: They have the power to hurt, to heal – to create beliefs, and to destroy those beliefs. The words of Poet Ezra Pound made him a rock star before there was rock, a media sensation when the media was newspapers and radios. Pound was a literary lion.
But he was also ferocious anti-Semite, charged with treason during WWII for supporting fascism. Found mentally incompetent in lieu of a very public criminal trial that the US government would find embarrassing, he spent 12 years at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital.
As the play begins in 1958, 73-year-old Pound has settled into a comfortable role as ‘elder statesman ‘ on the ward, but now faces the terrifying prospect of being released back into the world. Help arrives in Ann Polley, a young psychiatrist who aspires to help the man who has been labeled “incurable.” But her words may also help or hurt, create, or destroy.
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As with most Readers’ Theatre readings, we will keep the number of rehearsals small (2-3 leading up to run through on the day of performance – May 26th, focusing on developing your character as you don’t have to memorize lines or blocking.
“I want to spend a lot more time on blocking”
— No actor, ever!