Category: Theater

Tickets for “Graceland” & “Asleep on the Wind” are now available at Peter & Annies in Cumberland, or online here. 

Added audition dates this Thursday & Friday, June 20 & 21, 6pm at ETC stage.

If interested but can’t make audition dates, know of anyone who may be interested, or have any questions regarding the play please contact the director, Sheila Shaffer, at lucidreamersheila@gmail.com .

Looking for actors for 2 companion one-act plays “Graceland” a dramedy, and “Asleep On the Wind” the prequel by Ellen Byron.

Performance dates: September 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 /matinees 22 & 29.

For ‘Graceland‘:
1 woman, Bev – age 40-60
1 woman, Rootie – early to mid 20s, Cajun/Southern accent

For ‘Asleep On the Wind’:
1 girl, Rootie – 11-15, Cajun/Southern accent
1 male, Beau – age 18-30, Cajun/Southern accent

Auditions will include readings from selected scenes. Please bring a list of your conflicts for the audition form.
Rehearsals will begin August 1st and will be Monday through Thursday through Sept 12th. Then may include the Friday & weekend prior to opening if needed.

*** TRIGGER WARNING!!  Please be advised there are references in the scripts of bullying and domestic abuse.

**** Also looking for an acapella trio or quartet to sing “Aura Lee” and one singer on acoustic guitar to sing “Love Me Tender”.

THE STORIES:

GRACELAND. The place is the front entrance of Graceland, the late Elvis Presley’s Memphis mansion, the time, five o’clock in the morning, three days before the estate is to be opened to the public. Two ardent Presley fans, Bev and Rootie, are camped out before the gates, each determined to be the first to enter the sacred precincts. Bev is a bewigged, middle-aged lady with too much make-up and a brassy down-home style; Rootie is young and shy and somewhat intimidated by the raucous Bev.

ASLEEP ON THE WIND. The time is ten years before the time of GRACELAND, the place, a small clearing in Bayou Teche, Louisiana, the “special place” that Rootie refers to in the other play. This is where Rootie and her favorite brother, Beau, a handsome, sensitive and restless young man come to talk in private and to escape her other two brothers who seem to delight in pestering their shy, reclusive sister. This time Beau has a double purpose for their meeting: to persuade Rootie to try to stick it out at home and in school; and also to tell her that he has enlisted in the army and has requested service in Vietnam.