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    • DECISION HEIGHT by Meredith Dayna Levy
    • DR. FRANKENSTEIN by Selma Dimitrijevic
    • VIRTUAL PROGRAMS >
      • DECK THE HALLS by Tim Phillips
      • THE SMELL OF THE KILL by Michele Lowe
      • BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW by Beech Brunsetter
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      • DECK THE HALLS by Tim Phillips
      • THE SMELL OF THE KILL by Michele Lowe
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      • The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL >
        • THE FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNSWOMEN’S GUILD DRAMATICT SOCIETY PRODUCTION OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL
      • THE FARCE OF HABIT >
        • FARCE OF HABIT by Jones Hope Wooten
      • MISCAST Cabaret - Roles We'll Never Get To Play
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      • POCKET BROADWAY
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      • IF THE SHOE FITS... by Matt Thompson, Matt Chorine & Dana Vermette
      • THE MEMORY BOX by Laura King
    • 2022 Productions >
      • Murder at the Prop Table by Ed Bassett
      • The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson
      • International One Act Play Festival
      • Varney The Vampire by Tim Kelly
      • Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some) by Michael Carleton, James Fitzgerald & John K. Alvarez
    • 2021 Productions >
      • KILL ME, DEADLY
      • CAYUGA CANAL GIRLS
      • EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD
      • 2021 VIRTUAL PROGRAMS
    • 2020 Productions >
      • DRINKING HABITS 2
      • THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK CHRISTMAS MUSICAL
      • NEVERLAND CHRISTMAS
      • HEAD OVER HEELS
    • 2019 Productions >
      • EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD (AND THEN SOME)
      • 7TH ANNUAL ONE ACT FESTIVAL
      • FOOLS
      • FOUR WEDDINGS AND AN ELVIS
      • STEEL MAGNOLIAS
      • SHERWOOD: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
      • FIREFLIES
      • 2019 MINI GOLF TOURNAMENT
      • THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN
      • DEAD RINGER
    • NERF Regional Festival - One Night With Fanny Brice
    • 2018 Productions >
      • MRS. BOB CRATCHIT'S WILD CHRISTMAS BINGE
      • NEVERLAND CHRISTMAS
      • CLIFFHANGER
      • 2018 ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL
      • THE FOREIGNER
      • MOON OVER BUFFALO
      • 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
      • ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
      • THE OCTETTE BRIDGE CLUB
      • THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
    • 2017 Productions >
      • The Gin Game
      • Death By Fatal Murder
      • Any Body Home?
      • Three Musketeers
      • Baskerville
      • Rebel Yells
      • Female Transport
      • 2017 MINI GOLF TOURNAMENT
      • GIVE LOCAL Greater Waterbury and Litchfield Hills 2017
    • 2016 Productions >
      • Cops
      • Three Murders And It's Only Monday
      • Farce Of Nature
      • The Dining Room
      • William Shakespeare's MACBETH
      • 4th Annual One Act Festival
      • The Cover Of Life
      • 2016 MINI GOLF TOURNAMENT
      • A Man of No Importance
      • 6TH ANNIVERSARY HOEDOWN
      • Lady Parts
      • Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some)
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      • The Butler Did It
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AUDITIONS

Auditions for THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THEATER (abridged) by Matt Thompson

12/5/2022

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Director
ED BASSETT

Stage Manager
LAURIE PHILLIPS
Performance Dates:
Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 8PM
Sunday,  March, 5, 2023 at 3PM

Friday, March 10, 2023 at 8PM
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 8PM
Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 3PM

Friday, March 17, 2023 at 8PM
Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 8pm
Monday, December 19, 2022 from 7-9pm
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 from 7-9pm


We are seeking 2 men, 1 woman and 1 of either gender. All roles are open. The production is being directed by Ed Bassett with Stage Manager Laurie Phillips. Performance dates are March 4 thru 18, 2023. Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm. Rehearsals will begin in January with schedule TBA.

Cast of Characters:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Bill): seems to act more like a child than the genius who penned some of the world’s greatest works of theatrical art.

CONSTANTINE STANISLAVSKY (Stan): The Russian scholar. Bill’s great friend.

SARAH BERNHARDT (Sarah): The greatest actress the stage has ever known.

ENSEMBLE MEMBER: Plays Stage Manager / House Manager / Playwright / Producer / Sound Designer / Light Designer / Set Designer / Costume Designer / Director / Stagehand
 
About the Show:
It’s opening night, and master playwright William Shakespeare, theatrical diva Sarah Bernhardt and the indelible intellectual Constantine Stanislavsky lead you on a wild and wacky journey through the history of theatre from Aristophanes to Emile Zola.

This crazy cast of characters will transport you back in time as we relive the various elements of theatre from all parts of the globe. Explore the beginnings of Greek theatre, Aristotle’s Poetics, the fine art of Kabuki, the history of mime, the gladiators of Rome and speculation on the real author of Shakespeare’s plays.

Along the way, the bumbling Shakespeare misquotes himself, Sarah Bernhardt can’t get over the sound of thunderous applause and Stanislavsky gets blown out of a cannon when someone says the name of “the Scottish play” in the theatre!

Through a little perseverance and commedia dell’arte, the famous trifecta attempt to hold the show together, but when the producer appears onstage, things only get worse when the cast finds out they are trapped in a play within a play.

With time running out on the theatre’s rental agreement, the trifecta pays homage to the world’s best-known and beloved plays and musicals by alluding to dialogue from Edward Albee, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Noël Coward, Anton Chekhov, Caryl Churchill, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, Harold Pinter, Sarah Ruhl, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, August Strindberg, August Wilson, Thornton Wilder, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Oscar Wilde and many more all performed at breakneck speed.

​Near the play’s end, the cast realizes that the playwright hasn’t written an ending, wherein our iconic celebrities are forced to seek the audience’s help in finding a creative conclusion to the show.
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For more information, call 860-417-2505 or email [email protected]
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