AUDITION FOR TDM’S SPRING PRODUCTION OF THREE AMERICANISMS

By Mac Wellman
Directed by Paul Lazar

AUDITIONS  Thursday, Jan. 25, 6-8pm

AUDITIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN FARKAS HALL STUDIO, 12 HOLYOKE STREET.

Rehearsals start Monday, March 5. Performances run April 12-15.
We are looking for possibly one more actor. Actors need only do a text audition (from the audition sides provided).
Dance training is absolutely not necessary to fulfill these roles, but abstract movement and dancing will be a part of the piece. The gender of the character we are casting is a man. It is possible for actors of any gender to enact this character.

TO AUDITION FOR THREE AMERICANISMS:
Please email Dana Knox with 2 half hour windows of time (first choice and second choice). You will be assigned a 10 minute time slot within those hours. Walk up auditions will also be accepted on the audition nights, and placed into the next available slot. 

Mac Wellman’s “Three Americanisms” is uniquely attuned to our current troubled times, despite its having been written close to thirty years ago. Via three interrelated monologues, the play depicts a trio of defensive, angry, vulnerable, fierce, suspicious, compelling people who are burdened with the cruel task of navigating an environment that is physically and psychically threatening and unpredictable.

Marjorie Pearlman speaks of “Wellman’s uncanny ability to capture the deep structure of contemporary ex- perience in all of its absurdity and illogic”. This is most prevalent in the language of the play which Wellman describes as “full of clumsy constructions, double (and triple) negatives, demented neologisms, and every conceivable combination of out of fashion, dated, or wholly artificial slang...I found to my great surprise that the stuff possessed great expressive power, was usually about important ideas, and almost always was far more speakable than the better class of American language........” Three Americanisms is a dark comic language experiment and a piercing social commentary.