Theatre Auditions- Once Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Utah
Posted by Craze Agency on Monday, August 23, 2010
Holding a second round of auditions
for
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST !
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST !
THIS SHOW HAS NOT BEEN PRODUCED ON A
SALT LAKE STAGE SINCE PIONEER THEATER COMPANY'S PRODUCTION IN 2002. BASED ON KEN
KESEY'S BRILLIANT NOVEL, THIS IS AN ICONIC SCRIPT MADE INFAMOUS BY THE FILM OF
THE SAME NAME.
A TRAGICOMIC MORALITY TALE, STILL
RELEVANT IN TODAY'S NEO-MACHIAVELLIAN SOCIETY, IT PRESENTS A HAUNTING REFLECTION
OF HUMANITY IN IT'S MOST SINISTER DARKNESS AND ITS MOST HEROIC
LIGHT.
MIDVALE MAIN STREET THEATER, 7711 Main Street, Midvale Utah
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25th from 6:00 Pm to
10:00 PM.
Call or email Mike Hardy, 801-498-0205,
insomniactor@q.com or
email Tammy Ross, tross12628@yahoo.com for additional information.
The following roles are
available.
MEN
CHIEF BROMDEN: Huge, bull muscled
NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN, who stands six and a half feet tall, but carries himself
like a small man that the system has struck down. mute to his fellow inmates and
ward staff. Monologues exhibit a wise and sensitive, spiritual man. the heart of
the show.
LEAD ROLE. 30'S -UP
LEAD ROLE. 30'S -UP
RANDLE PATRICK MC MURPHY: shaggy, long
side burns. A devilish grin and a face battered and scarred across nose and
cheekbone. red neck -biker attitude -bull in a china shop. lazy, lecherous, and
a con man. born leader.
LEAD ROLE. 30'S -UP
LEAD ROLE. 30'S -UP
BILLY BIBBITT: a child man. a
frightened rabbit in a den of wolves. a soul tortured by a domineering mother
and low self esteem, affected with a terrible stammer and the desire to be one
of the boys. An immediate worshiper of RP. LEAD ROLE. 20'S -UP.
MARTINI: impish, agreeable, easy to
laugh, and completely delusional. He is prone to buddying with imaginary
friends. He has a lot of heart and wants badly to please and to end his
nightmare. 30's /UP.
SCANLON: balding, determined, and
mostly quiet in his routine of assembling his imaginary bomb and feeding his
paranoia delusions. SUPPORT ROLE. 50's
CHARLES CHESWICK: short, chubby, crew
-cut hair style. His manner alternately truculent and cringing. Sarcasm and
criticism are a normal diet in his speech. 30's / UP
DR SPIVEY: the administrative piece in
the puzzle. A tired, unimaginative, worker bee for the state hospital. A man
dying to experience life in a grander scale but confined to a desk and rules,
who sees RP as a bold experiment, a breath of fresh air. 40's/ UP
NURSE FLYNN: a mousey, high strung, proper and professional novice in over her head. Attractive and yet non sexual ,non threatening lackey for the big nurse. 20's UP
NURSE FLYNN: a mousey, high strung, proper and professional novice in over her head. Attractive and yet non sexual ,non threatening lackey for the big nurse. 20's UP
AIDE WARREN: preferably African
American, a strong, bullying, in charge worker bee to the big nurse. He loves a
good b.s. session with co- worker Williams, and harassing deaf and dumb Bromden.
20's/UP
AIDE WILLIAMS: preferably African
American, not as sadistic perhaps as his fellow aide, but eager to push people
around under the radar of the rules. 20's/UP
TURKLE: part night watchman, part
janitor, all boob. A good ol'boy just trying to skate by with as little effort
as possible. Smells a kindred soul in R.P. 30's/UP
RUCKLY: a seriously damaged man.
Chronic mental patient. he requires constant care full time and does not speak
except for a bark of obscenity he uses to comment with. He is forever in a
Christ-like pose against a wall and through misty eyes he surveys his fellow
sheep. AGE OPEN
WOMEN
SANDRA: Candy's partner in crime. A
party girl to end all party girls. That one that everyone talks about the next
day. Bottle in hand at every occasion and first to dance. Unlucky in love. 20's
/UP
NURSE FLINN; Nervous, vapid, with a
sense of frailty, she fulfills her dutiful servitude to Nurse Rached, but she
may be in over her head.
LET CRAZE KNOW IF THEY ARE INTERESTED
IN YOU!!
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Craze Agency