LCCT To Hold Season Auditions in Early September
Lincoln County Community Theater, the resident theater
company of the Lincoln Theater, will be holding open auditions for its upcoming
season on Tuesday, September 6th from 5pm to 7pm and Thursday, September 8th
from 630 pm to 830 pm in Porter Hall at
Skidompha Library in Damariscotta.
The season will open in November with a production of
Christopher Sergel’s stage adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird,” with
performance dates November 11-13 and 18-20. Set in the Deep South, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel upon
which the play was based sees racial injustice envelop a small-town community.
Through courage and compassion, lawyer Atticus Finch seeks the truth, and his
feisty daughter, Scout - a young girl on the cusp of adulthood - brings new
hope to a neighborhood in turmoil. The production requires a cast of 16,
including roles for 2 young boys and a young girl and three African American
actors.
We will also be casting for the third season of our play
reading series, "Sundays Without Scenery.” The semi- staged readings are presented for two performances each on
Sundays throughout the year. Titles
currently being considered include:
• David
Lindsay-Abaire’s "Good People,” a play set in South Boston that explores the
struggles, shifting loyalties and unshakeable hopes that come with having next
to nothing in America, and his new play "Ripcord,” a high-stakes comedy about
two women of a certain age locked in a no-holds-barred "battle-to-the-death” to
hold onto a single room in the Bristol Place Assisted Living Facility;
• Donald
Margulies’ "Dinner with Friends,” a turbulent meditation on the minefield of
middle age;
• Ken
Ludwig’s play with music "Sullivan and Gilbert,” which takes place at the Savoy
Theatre in 1890. Gilbert and Sullivan, who have been feuding for years, are
forced to work together one more time; Queen Victoria commands a performance of
their most popular songs;
• Kenny
Finkle’s "Indoor/Outdoor,” a comedy about a house cat, Samantha who finds
herself torn between her affection for a human companion, a nebbishy graphic
designer, and her attraction to a sexy tomcat who invites her to sample the
pleasures of the outdoor life.
• LCCT is also
very excited to be presenting a reading of local playwright Daniel Wentworth’s
"The Match Tin,” a play set in a hospital during the turbulent events of World
War I where poets A.A. Milne and Robert Graves have been sent after incurring
psychological injury.
LCCT plans to continue its winter semi-staged concert event
with either Gilbert and Sullivan’s "The Gondoliers” or another work from the
classic American musical theater. Last but not least, LCCT is looking to mount
a summer musical in 2017, the title of which still to be determined.
The theater hopes to see those of you who are well-known to
LCCT and those of you have may have done some acting in the past or are looking
to "give it a shot.” Interested actors
who have a monologue and/or a song are asked to bring it along. The theater
will also have audition scenes to be used and an accompanist will be provided. Please refer any additional questions you
might have to lcctseason@gmail.com. People interested in helping out backstage with scenery building,
costumes, etc. are also encouraged to email at the lcctseason@gmail.comaddress.
See you on Tuesday, September 6th from 5 pm to 7pm and Thursday
September 8th from 630 pm to 830 pm in Porter Hall at Skidompha Library. Curtain going up!