Auditions - Wednesday August 23 @ 6:00 PM
Callbacks - Thursday August 24 @ 6:00 PM
Mesa Community College
MCC Theatre - Lobby
1833 W Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ, 85202
Please come prepared with two monologues comedy / drama
Our Stage Manager will contact you upon receiving your audition form submittal to schedule you for a 5 minute audition time slot
If you do not have a prepared monologue please come at 7:30pm on 8/23 and you will be seen
Callbacks
Be prepared to read from provided sides
If you were unable to attend the auditions on Wednesday please arrive before 6pm on Thursday and we will get you a time to be seen that day.
PLEASE NOTE - If you are cast you must sign up for the appropriate section of THP 201AA
The Play That Goes Wrong
Rehearsals begin on August 28, 2028 with an initial company meeting that same day at 4pm
Tech begins September 27. There are six performances between October 6 and 14.
Synopsis
You all know the classic murder mystery story. There has been an untimely death at a country manor, everyone is a suspect, and an inspector is set on the case to find who the culprit is. However, when this play is performed by the accident-prone thespians of The Cornley Drama Society, everything that can go wrong…does! The actors and crew battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! From Mischief, the creators of the West End smash Peter Pan Goes Wrong, critically acclaimed TV series The Goes Wrong Show, and the Tony-winning Broadway hit The Play That Goes Wrong, this is the original one-act play which started everything going wrong. Over the course of an hour, expect a plethora of disasters from missed lines to falling props. Do you ever find out who murdered Charles Haversham? You’ll have to see for yourself!
The Play That Goes Wrong Character Breakdown
As with any play-within-a-play, you have the complication of the characters of the actors doing the play-within-the-play and the characters within the play-within-the-play. To make it a little simpler, the names are laid out below in two lists: firstly the members of the Cornley Drama Society who are putting on the play, and secondly the characters of The Murder at Haversham Manor. The text always uses the actors' names rather than the characters' names.
MEMBERS OF THE CORNLEY DRAMA SOCIETY (in order of appearance)
ANNIE is the company's stage manager. American accent.
STAGE CREW, the Comley Drama Society stage crew.
TREVOR is the company's lighting and sound operator. American accent.
CHRIS is the head of the drama society, directed the play and plays Inspector Carter.
JONATHAN plays Charles Haversham.
ROBERT plays Thomas Colleymoore.
DENNIS plays Perkins.
MAX plays Cecil Haversham and Arthur the Gardener.
SANDRA plays Florence Colleymoore.
CHARACTERS IN 'THE MURDER AT HAVERSHAM MANOR (in order of appearance)
CHARLES HAVERSHAM, the deceased.
THOMAS COLLEYMOORE, Charles' old school friend.
PERKINS, Charles' butler.
CECIL HA VERSHAM, Charles' brother.
FLORENCE COLLEYMOORE, Charles' fiancee and Thomas' sister.
INSPECTOR CARTER, an esteemed local inspector.
ARTHUR THE GARDENER, the gardener at Haversham Manor.
Everything in The Garden
Rehearsals begin on October 16, 2023 with an initial company meeting that same day at 4pm
Tech begins November 20. There are six performances between December 1 and 9.
Synopsis
As always with Mr. Albee there is a theme beneath the surface, in this case the corruption of money and the rottenness of this bigoted exurbia where conformity to its illiberal standards and its hypocritical show of respectability is all that counts. The scene is the suburban home of Jenny and Richard. The only thing that seems to stand in the way of their happiness is a lack of money. The action starts in an entertaining comedy of manners style. Then abruptly there enters a Mrs. Toothe in the menacing and fascinating person of Beatrice Straight who offers Jenny the opportunity to make more money than they have ever had, to buy a greenhouse and all the other luxuries that they require for their garden and their lives. Richard's realization that their newfound money is being earned by his wife's prostitution comes almost simultaneously with the return of their fourteen-year-old son from school and a champagne cocktail party which they are giving to impress their country club friends. As a result, his horror, disgust and rage has to be kept under wraps in order to keep up essential appearances until tragedy strikes, and Richard realizes that the assembled wives are all involved and their husbands are aware and condoning. More than that, they are prepared not merely to justify but defend the ends through which their means are attained—and the devastated Richard, left in agonized despair by the ironic events that charge the final moments of the play, must face the fact of his own share in their communal guilt.
Everything in The Garden Character Breakdown
RICHARD, a pleasant-looking man, 43.
JENNY, his wife, an attractive woman in her late thirties.
ROGER, their son, a nice-looking boy, 14 or 15.
JACK, a neighbor, a pleasant-looking man, about 40.
MRS. TOOTHE, an elegantly dressed, handsome lady, 50 or so.
CHUCK and BERYL.
GILBERT and LOUISE.
CYNTHIA and PERRY, friends and neighbors, very much like Richard and Jenny.
MCC Theatre & Film Arts practices and supports diverse, non-traditional casting.
Actors of all backgrounds and identities are encouraged to audition.
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