Auditions for The Dining Room by A.R.Gurney

“The Dining Room”
By A. R. Gurney
Directed by Benjamin Gavitt

AUDITIONS

Sunday, March 11, 2018 – 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Performance Dates:  May 18 – 20, 2018

Full Length, Comedy/Drama – 3 men, 3 women (flexible casting)

THE STORY: The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do house-hold, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP. The actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill as they portray a wide variety of characters, from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from gig-gling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces a new set of people and events; a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy re-turns from boarding school to discover his mother’s infidelity; a senile grand-mother doesn’t recognize her own sons at Christmas dinner; a daughter, her mar-riage a shambles, pleads futilely to return home, etc. Dovetailing swiftly and smoothly, the varied scenes coalesce, ultimately, into a theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and abundant humanity.