Audition Details for ISU Theatre’s Dry Land
By Ruby Rae Spiegel
Director – Alyson O’Hara (alysono@iastate.edu)
Dry Land description:
“Two teen-aged girls on a Florida high school swim team navigate the precarious path to female adulthood and friendship in Ruby Rae Spiegel’s honest, meaningful and intense 90-minute drama, ‘Dry Land.’ It premiered in New York City when Spiegel was only 21 years old, and the author captures fully the emotional turmoil of girls too soon reaching womanhood.
Amy is pregnant by a boy she no longer dates, and who does not appear as a character in the drama. Florida law mandates parental notification for an abortion, and since Amy doesn’t want her mother to know about her situation, she seeks help from the internet, entreating Ester’s cooperation with schemes from being punched in the belly, to using laundry detergent, to taking the abortion pill.”
Audition Details:
January 14, 8:00 – 10:30pm in Carver 310.
Sign up online by visiting Sign Up Genius here.
Callbacks will be January 15.
What to Prepare?:
One monologue from the selected audition cuts found here.
Production Details:
Rehearsals begin February 2nd and will generally be 5 evenings per week.
Sunday, Monday and Wednesday at 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Tuesday, Thursday at 8:00 – 10:00 pm.
Tech week begins March 22nd, 2020. Performances are at 615 South Dayton Ave., March 26 - 29, 2020.
Roles Available:
Ester: Eighteen. Very literal. Plain, but nice-looking. She’s new to this school. Focused on the future.
Amy: Seventeen. Wears harsh eyeliner to look striking but not pretty. Aggressive.
Reba: Seventeen. Not self-conscious. Only mean in a casual/fun way. Not deep enough to be cruel, simply self-centered.
Victor: Twenty. In his own world.
Janitor: Male. Late thirties to early eighties.
Questions:
Please contact isutheatre@iastate.edu