Announcing Readers' Theatre Auditions
Sight Unseen
by Donald Margulies Directed by Ann Whiteman
AUDITIONS: March 5 7:30pm Bas Bleu Theatre
Arrive ready to read provided sides
PERFORMANCES: April 15 & 16 - 7:30pm April 21 - 2:30pm
Scripts and monologues available for 24-hour check out through the box office
The Story:
Jonathan Waxman is the artist as superstar, plunged into the exorbitant hype of the American art world where a publicist is as necessary as a brush and canvas. Just before his works are celebrated at an exhibition in London, Jonathan journeys to the English village where his former lover, Patricia, lives with her British husband, Nick. Archaeologists working on a dig in rural northern county, their spare existence is spent sifting through a Roman rubbish heap to discover the past. In their cold, remote house, Jonathan discovers an early painting of Patricia he'd done when they were young lovers. The subsequent struggle for the painting embodies the unreconciled passions of the past. Patricia has never forgiven Jonathan for leaving her, Nick despises Jonathan and the kind of art he produces, and Jonathan has never been able to recapture the inspiration and purity he felt when he painted Patricia. In taut scenes that dart from past to present and back, the characters are forced to deal with the unanswerable question of anti-Semitism, the legacy of the Holocaust and assimilation, the sadness of lost love, the role of the artist and the location of the human soul at the end of a ragged century.
Sight Unseen is the winner of the 1992 OBIE Award for best American play and the Dramatists' Guild/ Hull-Warriner Award, one of the finalists for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Donald Margulies is the author of 15 titles including Brooklyn Boy, Collected Stories, Dinner With Friends, Shipwrecked- An Entertainment, and Time Stands Still. He is the adjunct professor of English and Theater studies at Yale University. He is currently adapting the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides for an HBO miniseries.
The Characters:
The play spans 20 years in a time scramvbled chronology. Interspersed is a no-holds barred interview with an avid but incisive German art critic. As a readers' theater piece, the roles will not necessarily be cast to physical/age type.
Jonathan Waxman: A working-class Brooklyn Jew, a struggling painter until 8 years ago but now a very wealthy and critically acclaimed artist. He painted apartments after leaving art school until a single controversial canvas threw him into world-wide celebrity. He is happily married with a baby on the way and is in England preparing for a world-wide retrospective of his work. On impulse he contacts the woman who was his former model and first serious lover, twenty years after he abruptly ended their relationship.
Patricia: American archeologist who married an older colleague when her student visa expired so she could remain in Britain. She was the model for a portrait he painted when they fell in love that remains a one-of-a-kind work. Patricia has never forgiven Waxman
Nick: English archeologist and academic more comfortable with artifacts than people. Reserved but pointed verbal manner that seems odd or something of a cipher. He is much older than his American wife. He is nearly paralyzed with shyness in unfamiliar circumstances, such as when he meets his wife's former charismatic lover. He is not an alcoholic but a man for whom alcohol provides a welcome disinhibition in the fraught situation at hand; it lubricates his tongue. Accent not British RP but educated.
Grete: German art critic. An avid fan, she is not a shallow facile American-style TV interviewer nor a cartoon German interrogator. There is definitely an undercurrent of sexual attraction in the point-counterpoint with Waxman. She relentlessly pursues the role of Jews and artists in the twentieth century- being on the inside while choosing to see themselves on the outside. Her English is excellent but accented.
Directed by Ann Whiteman. Contact with any questions 970-631-8317
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