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The Nerd A Comedy by Larry Shue Auditions - September 13,14, 15 Show Dates - November 4, 5, 6 and 11, 12,13  This extraordinarily
inventive, side-splitting comedy is unquestionably one of the funniest
plays ever written.Now an aspiring young architect in Terre Haute, Indiana, Willum Cubbert has often told his friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but who saved has life after he was seriously wounded in Vietnam. He has written to Rick to say that, as long as he is alive, "you will have somebody on Earth who will do anything for you" --so Willum is delighted when Rick shows up unexpectedly at his apartment on the night of his 34th birthday party. But his delight soon fades as it becomes apparent that Rick is a hopeless "nerd" --a bumbling oaf with no social sense, little intelligence, and less tact.
Our Town by Thornton Wilder Auditions - January 3, 4,5 Show Dates - February 24, 25, 26 and March 3, 4, 5  Thornton Wilder's
Our Town provides the audience with an informal, intimate and
compelling human drama. Wilder was dissatisfied with the unimaginative,
stilted theatrical productions of his time: "[They] aimed to be
soothing. The tragic had no heat; the comic had no bite; the social
criticism failed to indict us with responsibility." Our Town, with its
far-reaching theme and unmistakable symbolism, was a far cry from the
typical bland depression era play (though, ironically, "the magic of
the mundane" is the play's major theme).Though set during the early Twentieth Century, Grover's Corner is anyplace and all places, anytime and all times. A constantly shifting verb tense throughout the play reveals that something strange is happening here with time. Pantomime and conversation simultaneously enact life's continuum of time and place. The principal actor is the Stage Manager, who remains on stage the entire time explaining much of the action. He is aware of the present, and privy to both the past and the future. He knows the characters' feelings, and alternately takes on the roles of narrator, philosophical druggist, host, master of ceremonies, commentator and friend to the audience. Wilder creates types rather than individuals in 0ur Town. Every audience member can say, "Yes, I know someone like that. He's just like so-and-so," or "I know what he is feeling. I've felt that way myself." This sense of "recollection" permeates the play to both thrill and haunt us with reminders of our common - and fragile - humanity- By using the barest of scenery and props, Wilder reinforces that our hopes and despairs and loves begin and end not with things, but in the mind and the soul, as our lives unfold through one another. This focus on "absolute reality" allows us to see Emily's simplest pleasures and cares (algebra lessons, birthday presents, etc.) through child-like eyes. Her timelessness helps the audience understand, just as she herself comes to understand, the seamless relationship between past, present and future. Her commonplace experiences (marriage, family ... ) contrast sharply with her death experience, where she finally comes to appreciate the commonplace. The play motivates the audience to treasure everyday life just as it is. Click HERE for cast list and show pictures. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Auditions - March 21, 22,23 Show Dates - May 12, 14 and 19, 20, 21 04/08/2005 - Cast Named for "The Woman in Black" - Click HERE  Eel Marsh House stands tall, gaunt
and isolated, surveying the endless flat saltmarshes beyond the Nine
Lives Causeway, somewhere on England's bleak East Coast. Here Mrs Alice
Drablow lived - and died - alone. Young Arthur Kipps, a junior
solicitor, is ordered by his firm's senior partner to travel up from
London to attend her funeral and then sort out all her papers. His task
is a lonely one, and at first Kipps is quite unaware of the tragic
secrets which lie behind the house's shuttered windows. He only has a
terrible sense of unease. And then, he glimpses a young woman with a
wasted face, dressed all in black, at the back of the church during Mrs
Drablow's funeral, and later, in the graveyard to one side of Eel Marsh
House. Who is she? Why is she there? He asks questions, but the locals
not only cannot or will not give him answers - they refuse to talk
about the woman in black, or even to acknowledge her existence, at all.
So, Arthur Kipps has to wait until he sees her again, and she slowly
reveals her identity to him - and her terrible purpose. The Woman In Black treads in the footsteps of the classic ghost story, following the tradition of Charles Dickens and M.R James, of Henry James and Edith Wharton. It is not a horror story or a tale of terror, yet the events build up to a horrifying climax and instil a sense of horror. It relies on atmosphere, a vivid sense of place, on hints and glimpses and suggestions, on what is shadowy, heard and sometimes only half-seen, to chill the reader's blood to the marrow and make reading the book alone at night inadvisable for the faint-hearted. Click HERE for cast list and show pictures.        For additional information please call or write: Richmond Community Theater P.O. Box 635 Rockingham, N.C. 28380 (910) 997-3765 Copyright 1997-2005 - Richmond Community Theatre (RCT) This page was made available by contributions from the Richmond Community Theatre Board Members . |
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