Auditions for ENCHANTED APRIL

Director
AGNES M. DANN

PERFORMANCES
​Saturday, April 25, 2020 | 8PM
Sunday, April 26, 2020 | 3PM

Friday, May 1, 2020 | 8PM
Saturday, May 2, 2020 | 8PM
Sunday, May 3, 2020 | 3PM

Friday, May 8, 2020 | 8PM
Saturday, May 9, 2020 | 8PM

Monday, February 24, 2020 at 7:00pm
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 7:00pm

Auditions will be held at the theater located at 133 Main Street, Oakville.

This is an open audition process.  Sides will be provided for readings, no monologues are required.  We are seeking 3 men and 5 women for this production.  The rehearsal schedule will be Sunday, Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Sweet-natured Lotty Wilton is suffering depression from the bleak London winter and from an oppressive relationship with her pompous solicitor husband.  When she sees an advertisement in the paper to rent a castle in Italy for the month of April, an idyllic spot "for those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine," she jumps at the chance to escape her downtrodden existence.  Sensing an instant kinship with fellow housewife, Rose Arnott, a severely angelic woman with sorrows of her own, Lotty persuades her along on the adventure.

Seeking to reduce the costs the two ladies find Caroline Bramble, a beautiful and exhausted socialite, and Mrs. Graves, an overbearing widow, to round out the party.  As the month passes, verdant sun-drenched San Salvatore works it magic on each sad and hardened heart, healing grief and bringing hope.  And with the arrival of two chastened husbands and one attractive young artist, romance blooms again.  

Matthew Barber's Enchanted April, based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's beloved novel of the 1920s is a gentle and romantic comedy of manners.  Against the backdrop of a country still reeling from World War I, Enchanted April offers to its characters, and viewers, a necessary balm of sunshine and renewal.
 
The rehearsal schedule will be Sunday, Monday and Wednesday evenings. For more information, call 860-417-2505 or email info@phoenixstagecompany.org

AVAILABLE ROLES:
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LOTTY WILTON – a Hampstead housewife. Sweet-natured, depressed from the bleak London winter, and from an oppressive relationship with her pompous solicitor husband.

MELLERSH WILTON – Lotty’s husband. A Solicitor.

ROSE ARNOTT – a Hampstead housewife. a severely angelic woman with sorrows of her own

FREDERICK ARNOTT – he husband, a writer.

CAROLINE BRAMBLE - a beautiful and exhausted socialite.

ANTONY WILDING – an attractive young artist.

MRS. GRAVES – an overbearing widow. The eldest of the women.

COSTANZA – an Italian housekeeper