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Auditions
Theatre Downtown
holds auditions for Audition dates/times are: Monday, January 16 from 6-9 PM Tuesday, January 17 from 6-10 PM Auditions will be held at Theatre Downtown/Appointments are encouraged. 1-2 minute dramatic monologue will be required. Please call us at: 407-841-0083 for an appointment or additional info. 2113 North Orange Avenue Orlando, FL 32804 Roles Needed are: Blanche Dubois (30-40) Stella’s older sister, who was a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi, until she was forced to leave her post. Blanche is a loquacious and fragile woman. After losing Belle Reve, the DuBois family home, Blanche arrives in New Orleans at the Kowalski apartment and eventually reveals that she is completely destitute. Though she has strong sexual urges and has had many lovers, she puts on the airs of a woman who has never known indignity. She avoids reality, preferring to live in her own imagination. As the play progresses, Blanche’s instability grows.
Stanley Kowalski (30’s) The husband of Stella. Stanley is the epitome of vital force. He is loyal to his friends, passionate to his wife, and heartlessly cruel to Blanche. With his Polish ancestry, he represents the new, heterogeneous America. He sees himself as a social leveler, and wishes to destroy Blanche’s social pretensions.
Stella Kowalski (25-30) Blanche’s younger sister, and of a mild disposition that visibly sets her apart from her more vulgar neighbors. Stella possesses the same timeworn aristocratic heritage as Blanche, but she jumped the sinking ship in her late teens and left Mississippi for New Orleans. There, Stella married lower-class Stanley, with whom she shares a robust sexual relationship. Stella’s union with Stanley is both animal and spiritual, violent but renewing.
Mitch (35-40) Stanley’s army friend, coworker, and poker buddy, who courts Blanche until he finds out that she lied to him about her sordid past. Mitch is more sensitive and more gentlemanly than Stanley and his other friends, perhaps because he lives with his mother, who is slowly dying.
Eunice Hubbell/Steve Hubbell (40-50) Stella’s friend, upstairs neighbor, and landlady. Eunice and her husband, Steve, represent the low-class, carnal life that Stella has chosen for herself. Like Stella, Eunice accepts her husband’s affections despite his physical abuse of her. Like Stanley, Steve is a brutish, hot-blooded male and an abusive husband.
A Young Collector (late teen’s/early 20) A young man who comes to the Kowalskis’ door to collect for the newspaper when Blanche is home alone. The boy leaves bewildered after Blanche hits on him and gives him a passionate farewell kiss. Pablo Gonzalez (30 +) Stanley’s poker buddy. Pablo is Hispanic, and his friendship with Steve, Stanley, and Mitch emphasizes the culturally diverse nature of their neighborhood. A Negro Woman (25-40) Bluesy singer, lives in the neighborhood, Mexican Woman (25-50) A vendor of Mexican funeral decorations who frightens Blanche by issuing the plaintive call “Flores para los muertos,”which means “Flowers for the dead.” Nurse (30-50) Possesses a severe, unfeminine manner and has a talent for subduing hysterical patients. Doctor (40-60) Soothing, gentleman, distinguished Roles are nonpaying The action of the play takes place late 1940’s, in the Kowalski apartment located in the French quarter of New Orleans.
Production dates are: March 16 thru
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Theatre
Downtown is Tax Deductible 501(c)(3) |
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