AUDITIONS: LOOT

AUDITION NOTICE:

TITLE: LOOT

AUTHOR: Joe Orton

DIRECTOR: Allen Sewell

RUN:  June 8 to July 6, 2024

Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm. Special performances on Thursday and Sunday nights may be added for private parties and special events.

This is a volunteer community theater production.  Non-Equity.  There is no pay.

AUDITION DATES:

Open Call:

Dates: Monday, April 15 and Tuesday, April 16, 2024

(Auditioners only need to come to one night of Open Call Auditions.)

Times: 7pm – 9pm

Location: Long Beach Playhouse  

Callbacks: By Invitation Only.

Date: Wednesday April 17, 2024

Times: 7pm – 10pm

REHEARSALS:

First Read-Through: Saturday April 20, 2024, Noon – 4pm

Regular Rehearsals: Beginning Monday, April 22: Monday through Thursday, 7pm – 10pm; and Saturdays, Noon – 3pm.

(Please see beginning rehearsal schedule BELOW for specific dates and times.)

Location: Long Beach Playhouse

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:

Bring headshot and resume. 

Sides for cold readings will be provided at the auditions. 

SHORT SYNOPSIS: 

When Joe Orton wrote Loot, he was out to shock his audiences. One of his greatest dark farces, the play centers around two amateur thieves, Dennis and Hal. Dennis works as a hearse driver for an undertaker and the pair have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlor. They decide to hide their ‘loot’ in the coffin of Hal’s recently deceased mother, stashing her body in a wardrobe in the meantime. However, before they can remove the coffin, the dead body is discovered by Fay McMahon, a predatory nurse who makes a habit out of marrying men who subsequently die in strange circumstances. She has now quickly engaged herself to marry Hal’s father but when she discovers the stash of cash, she demands a third of the spoils. Dennis and Hal’s tricky situation is worsened further by the arrival of Inspector Truscott, who strangely disguises himself as a man from the local Water Board. Using the conventions of standard farce, the trio attempt to keep the body and the money away from the Inspector in an increasingly tangled web of deceit and corruption.

CASTING THE FOLLOWING ROLES:

NOTE: Actively seeking all ethnicities for all roles

McLEAVY (Male, Mid 40s to 60s) a sanctimonious and gullible widower and father.  (British accent required.)

HAL (Male, Mid 20s) A larcenous and promiscuous (with both sexes) nihilist.  One of the bank robbers and son of McLeavy.  (British accent required.)

DENNIS (Male, Mid 20s) Hal’s childhood friend, lover, and partner in bank robbery.  He is a hearse driver and has impregnated five different women.  (British accent required.)

FAY (Female, Late 20s – 30s) An attractive but murderous and avaricious nurse to the deceased woman in the casket, on the prowl for her eighth husband and a cut of the loot.  (British accent required.)

TRUSCOTT (Male, 30s or 40s) A sneaky, violent, blow-hard police detective, investigating the bank robbery.  He is part psychopath, part clown.  (British accent required.)

MEADOWS (Male, 20s, 30s or 40s) A police bobby who carries out the Inspector’s orders for arrest.  (British accent required.)

BEGINNING REHEARSAL SCHEDULE: