Thunder River Theatre Company
2022-2023 Thunder River Theatre Company General Auditions
Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue from a published play and come with a current headshot and resume. All of the directors will be present and we might ask you to do your monologue more than once. Please have some sense of your availability for the year as we will be holding call backs for the season in the coming months.
If you are unable to attend general auditions, but are still interested in being considered please email Missy Moore directly with a current headshot and resume at [email protected]
Hurricane Diane
By Madeleine George
Directed by Beth Malone
Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity – the Greek god Dionysus – and she’s returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the earth to its natural state. Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac? Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.
Rehearsals start on or around August 22, 2022
Opens September 30, 2022
Closes October 16, 2022
Characters:
Carol Fleischer (thirty-nine)
Pam Annunziata (forties)
Renee Shapiro-Epps (forties)
Beth Wann (thirties)
Diane – This role has already been cast.
Proof
By David Auburn
Directed by Sue Lavin
One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of mathematics.
On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert, must deal not only with his death but with the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and with the attentions of Hal, a former student of her fathers who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind.
As Catherine confronts Hal’s affections and Claire’s plans for her life, she struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: How much of her father’s madness – or genius – will she inherit?
Rehearsals start on or around October 3, 2022
Opens November 18, 2022
Closes December 4, 2022
Characters:
Robert (fifties)
Catherine (twenty-five)
Hal (twenty-eight)
Claire (twenty-nine)
You Can’t Take It with You
By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Directed by Missy Moore
At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirby’s. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirby’s, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirby’s, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end, Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning a living as a waitress. No mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa’s interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn’t believe in income tax.
Rehearsals start on or around January 9, 2023
Opens February 17, 2023
Closes March 5, 2023
Characters:
Penelope Sycamore
Essie
Rheba
Paul Sycamore
Mr. De Pinna
Ed
Donald
Martin Vanderhof – This role has already been cast.
Alice
Henderson
Tony Kirby
Boris Kolenkhov
Gay Wellington
Mr. Kirby
Mrs. Kirby
G-Man #1
G-Man #2
G-Man #3
Olga
Zeus on the Loose – Greek Myths for Kids
Book and Lyrics by T. Jefferson Carey
Music by Jessica Jackson
Directed by Jennifer Johnson
An elaborate kid’s club house in a remote, rural area. Two handmade signs can be seen. One says “Olympus”, the other: “No Mortals Allowed.”
The time of the year is fall. The decade is the 1980’s.
Rehearsals start on or around March 25, 2023 (Actors must have daytime availability.)
Opens April 3, 2023
Closes April 16, 2023
Characters:
Durmont McDermot (a young boy)
Sally Fines (a young girl)
The Lifespan of a Fact
By Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell
Based on the book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
Directed by Renee Prince
Jim Fingal is fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent sinking New York Magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy – an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. When Jim is assigned to fact check D’Agata’s essay, the two come head-to-head in a comedic yet gripping battle over facts versus truth.
Rehearsals start on or around May 1, 2023
Opens June 9, 2023
Closes June 25, 2023
Characters:
Jim Fingal
Emily Penrose
John D’Agata
Location:
Thunder River Theatre Company
67 Promenade, Carbondale, CO 81623
