Actor Auditions

Betty's Summer Vacation

by Christopher Durang, directed by Nicole E. King

AUDITION DATES: Saturday March 30 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm and Monday April 1 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm at TheatreWorks, 5 Brookside Avenue, New Milford (parking is around the corner from the theatre).

“Betty’s Summer Vacation” is an outrageous play and a dark spoof commenting on the media’s obsession with sensationalizing events and its ability to cater to our fascination with notorious behavior. The play explores how people respond to horrific acts — sexual abuse, rape, incest, castration and dismemberment — in disturbingly funny, astonishing and unabashedly truthful ways.

Written by Christopher Durang, the Obie Award-winning play opens when Betty and her friend Trudy rent a seaside cottage that they have to share with a group of unsavory characters.

The cast includes Keith, a strange introvert who carries around a shovel and hatbox; Buck, a sex-crazed hunk; Mr. Vanislaw, a degenerate flasher who gets his thrills from hiding in women’s dressing rooms and exposing himself; and Mrs. Siezmagraff, a raging drunk and widow desperate for male affection who is also trying to forget her ex-husband’s abuse of their daughter, Trudy.

To add to the madness, a group of voices coming from the ceiling suggests that everything the characters say and do is being observed. To avoid boredom at all costs, the voices urge the characters to commit heinous acts.

Production Dates - May 30, 31, June 1, 6, 7, 8, 14,15, 16 (matinee), 21, 22

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Betty: A nice, fairly normal young woman, late 20s. Sensible does her best to be reasonable. 

Trudy: Friendly, chatty, needy, rather desperate underneath. Bit younger than Betty.

Keith: Sensitive, quiet, mysterious. Late 20s. Finds it hard to be around people. Seems sweet, seems weird.

Buck: Handsome, sexy lout-hunk. Might look like a beach guy out of baywatch. Unabashedly sexist, on the make of the time. Late 20s.

Mrs. Siezmagraff: Lively, vibrant woman, mid 40s. Oblivious to anyone else’s discomfort. Auntie Mame-ish.

Mr. Vanislaw: An insane derelict who expenses himself to women in bathrooms; naked except a raincoat and sneakers. A little scary, but als just insane. Happy in his way. Mid 40s.

The Group of Voices: 2 men, 1 woman. They laugh, they applaud. They live in the ceiling.

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