Sept.15-16: CLC Theatre department holds auditions for 'Crimes of the Heart'

Posted September 07, 2014 11:00 pm

College of Lake County

Auditions for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Crimes of the Heart" will be held by the College of Lake County Theatre department at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 and 16 in the Mainstage Theatre of the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts on the Grayslake campus, 19351 W. Washington St. Call-backs will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 18. Performances will take place Nov. 14-16 and Nov. 20-22.

The play will be directed by Brian Gill, CLC theatre department adjunct faculty member. Actors in their 20s and 30s should be ready to perform a monologue 60-90 seconds long. The parts include Lenny Magrath, eldest sister; Chick Boyle, the sisters' first cousin; Doc Porter, Meg's old boyfriend; Meg Magrath, the middle sister; Babe Botrelle, the youngest sister; and Barnette Lloyd, Babe's lawyer. The script is available for in-library reading from the Circulation Desk at the CLC Grayslake library.

"Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley is a warm-hearted comedy that examines the plight of three Mississippi sisters betrayed by their passions. Babe shot her husband because she didn't like his looks. Meg is back after a failed singing career. And poor Lenny-everyone has forgotten her 30th birthday-plus, her pet horse was just struck by lightning! Bad luck may run deep in this family, but, through laughter and tears, these sisters find the strength to escape the past, face the present and seize the future. In 1981, the play won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

For more information on auditions, contact Gill at bgill@clcillinois.edu.

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