amooneytheatre
Directors: Chris Smalley, Scott Smalley
Producers: Anne Mooney, Chris Smalley, Scott Smalley
Performance dates: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 (Community Preview) – Sunday, October 29, 2023
Thursday, November 2, 2023 – Sunday, November 5, 2023.
Audition Dates: Thursday, May 25 from 6 – 9pm; Saturday, May 27 from 1 – 6pm; call backs Sunday, May 28 from 11 – 2pm
Audition Location: Auditions will take place at the Palace Theatre, 710 Dundas Street, enter through the lobby doors.
Audition Preparation: cold readings from the script. Contact Scott Smalley at scott.j.smalley@gmail.com for more information.
Production Rehearsal Notes: Rehearsals begin on August 8 on Tuesday and Thursday nights and Sunday afternoons. There may be a couple of readings of the script with the cast and crew in July dates and times tba.
Production Description:
Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night sucking blood from its victims. The vampire is at last found to be a certain Count Dracula, whose ghost is finally laid to rest in a striking and novel manner. The play is intended for all who love thrills in the theatre, and is appropriate for all groups.
Character Breakdown: Some roles can be cast as gender-fluid, gender non-binary, or gender-blind and will be indicated below.
Miss Wells:
Character Gender: Female
Character Age Range: 18+
Outline: A maid. Youthful energy, motherly; usually warm and caring but becomes emotionless while under Dracula’s spell.
John Harker
Character Gender: Male
Character Age Range: 18 – 30
Outline: Engaged to Lucy; youthful, wealthy and handsome, naive and excitable.
Dr. Seward
Character Gender: Male
Character Age Range: 45+
Outline: A middle-aged psychiatrist, intelligent but lives in his books. Rarely loses his cool and is very rational; a little naive and not a man of action. Lucy’s father.
Van Helsing
Character Gender: Male / Female / Non-binary
Character Age Range: 30+
Outline: A well-traveled academic of many talents who has become an expert in the occult. A person of resourceful action who gets to the point.
Renfield
Character Gender: Male / Female / Non-binary
Character Age Range: 18+
Outline: A patient at the sanatorium; young and slightly androgynous, attractive despite an unkept and wild appearance. Contemptuous, quick to temper but also methodical. An opportunist.
Butterworth
Character Gender: Male / Female / Non-binary
Character Age Range: 18+
Outline: An attendant; dressed in uniform and of an unspecified age. Their job is generally comfortable, but Renfield’s escapes wear them down.
Lucy Seward
Character Gender: Female Character
Age Range: 18 – 25
Outline: The daughter of Dr. Seward; young and beautiful, , she has contracted a “mysterious illness” and becomes the obsession of Count Dracula.
Count Dracula
Character Gender: Male
Character Age Range: 40+
Outline: A mysterious, middle-aged man. Polished and distinguished; passes for human, but is the king of vampires.
Dracula’s Thralls (6)
Character Genders: Male / Female / Non-binary
Character Age Range: 18+
Outline: We are looking to cast 6 actors to play Dracula’s Thralls. These roles will perform choreographed movements. Dance experience is an asset but not required.
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