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The World Was Yours
an original play
by New Hampshire Playwright Williams Ivers
Directed by Matthew Parent
Open Call Auditions
7:00 pm / Sunday October 16, 2022
and
7:00 PM / Tuesday October 18, 2022
at
UA Local 131 Union Hall
161 Londonderry Turnpike
Hooksett, NH 03106
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Auditions will be readings of sides from the script.
Monologues are not required, but will be allowed if requested.
(See the top of the page for Audition Application and sides for readings.)
Lend Me A Theater is an amateur community theater company performing mainly in southern and central NH. We are open to all auditioners and cross type/gender casting. ALL ROLES ARE OPEN.
Rehearsal location: Local Union 131 Union Hall, 161 Londonderry Tpk, Hooksett, NH
Rehearsal days & times: TBD based on cast availability
First read-thru, meet & greet, & script distribution: TBD
Rehearsals start: Immediately after Thanksgiving
Show location: Hatbox Theatre, Steeplegate Mall, 270 Loudon Rd, Concord, NH
Show dates: Feb 3 thru Feb19, 2023 Friday & Saturday nights, Sunday matinees (9 shows)
**This show will be a profit share to help offset the cost of rising gas prices, distribution to be determined by the board based on show profit to LMAT
Synopsis:
The World Was Yours by William Ivers, involves a competition between three diverse artists vying for the same grant. Adley Schwartz, an aging art professor, hopes the grant funds will enable him to honor a personal promise to a loved one before it is too late while also providing a final chance for personal fulfillment. Joy, and idealistic young firebrand, hopes the opportunity will open doors for her to change the world, an endeavor she felt was stymied when she received a failing grade in Schwartz’s class. Z-Jones, a legendary and mysterious guerrilla graffiti artist, needs legitimacy and stability, for which she is willing to compromise her legacy of rebellion and innovation and her own sense of morality. Watching from the ether, internally feuding and commenting on the action, are Bob Ross, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol, three artists whose own work received equal measures of praise and disdain on their lifetimes. As the tension mounts, and the oft-conflicting values of the artists gestate in surprising ways, the notions that reputation, values, and ethics are complexly inter-woven reveal how we are all forced to make choices that reflect the influence of contradictory ideals.
Character List
Adley Schwartz
An aging art professor and Eadburg Art Grant finalist who hopes grant funds will enable him to honor a personal promise to a loved one before it is too late while also providing a final chance for personal fulfillment. He is didactic, traditional, and resigned to the fact that the world is quickly passing him by.
Joy
A 25-year-old grad student who has dreams of taking the world by storm with her politically driven art. A recovering pastor’s kid, she is thrilled to be an Eadburg Art Grant and hopes winning it will be an opportunity to storm onto the political art scene.
Z-Jones
A legendary and mysterious guerrilla graffiti artist, needs legitimacy and stability, for which she is willing to compromise her legacy of rebellion and innovation and her own sense of morality.
Salvador Dali
The legendary God of surrealism surrounds the play’s action with commentary from the ether. Bombastic and unstable, Dali sees the grant finalists as “peasants scrounging for scraps”.
Bob Ross
The beloved (and often trivialized) TV painter whose works is well-known but never discussed in serious art circles, despite his popularity and track record of bringing art to the masses. He, too, adds his own home-spun, plainspoken commentary to the action.
Andy Warhol
The iconic “Pop Artist” who made a career of pushing the boundaries of art. He spends the play bickering with Ross and Dali as they feud over the merits of their work from beyond the grave.
Hannah
A Eadburg Museum board member who at first seems like just another bureaucrat but soon reveals herself to be vulnerable and unhappy with where she is in life. It turns out she is smitten with one of the grant finalists.
Contact: via email at admin@lendmeatheater.org
an original play
by New Hampshire Playwright Williams Ivers
Directed by Matthew Parent
Open Call Auditions
7:00 pm / Sunday October 16, 2022
and
7:00 PM / Tuesday October 18, 2022
at
UA Local 131 Union Hall
161 Londonderry Turnpike
Hooksett, NH 03106
________________________________________________________________
Auditions will be readings of sides from the script.
Monologues are not required, but will be allowed if requested.
(See the top of the page for Audition Application and sides for readings.)
Lend Me A Theater is an amateur community theater company performing mainly in southern and central NH. We are open to all auditioners and cross type/gender casting. ALL ROLES ARE OPEN.
Rehearsal location: Local Union 131 Union Hall, 161 Londonderry Tpk, Hooksett, NH
Rehearsal days & times: TBD based on cast availability
First read-thru, meet & greet, & script distribution: TBD
Rehearsals start: Immediately after Thanksgiving
Show location: Hatbox Theatre, Steeplegate Mall, 270 Loudon Rd, Concord, NH
Show dates: Feb 3 thru Feb19, 2023 Friday & Saturday nights, Sunday matinees (9 shows)
**This show will be a profit share to help offset the cost of rising gas prices, distribution to be determined by the board based on show profit to LMAT
Synopsis:
The World Was Yours by William Ivers, involves a competition between three diverse artists vying for the same grant. Adley Schwartz, an aging art professor, hopes the grant funds will enable him to honor a personal promise to a loved one before it is too late while also providing a final chance for personal fulfillment. Joy, and idealistic young firebrand, hopes the opportunity will open doors for her to change the world, an endeavor she felt was stymied when she received a failing grade in Schwartz’s class. Z-Jones, a legendary and mysterious guerrilla graffiti artist, needs legitimacy and stability, for which she is willing to compromise her legacy of rebellion and innovation and her own sense of morality. Watching from the ether, internally feuding and commenting on the action, are Bob Ross, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol, three artists whose own work received equal measures of praise and disdain on their lifetimes. As the tension mounts, and the oft-conflicting values of the artists gestate in surprising ways, the notions that reputation, values, and ethics are complexly inter-woven reveal how we are all forced to make choices that reflect the influence of contradictory ideals.
Character List
Adley Schwartz
An aging art professor and Eadburg Art Grant finalist who hopes grant funds will enable him to honor a personal promise to a loved one before it is too late while also providing a final chance for personal fulfillment. He is didactic, traditional, and resigned to the fact that the world is quickly passing him by.
Joy
A 25-year-old grad student who has dreams of taking the world by storm with her politically driven art. A recovering pastor’s kid, she is thrilled to be an Eadburg Art Grant and hopes winning it will be an opportunity to storm onto the political art scene.
Z-Jones
A legendary and mysterious guerrilla graffiti artist, needs legitimacy and stability, for which she is willing to compromise her legacy of rebellion and innovation and her own sense of morality.
Salvador Dali
The legendary God of surrealism surrounds the play’s action with commentary from the ether. Bombastic and unstable, Dali sees the grant finalists as “peasants scrounging for scraps”.
Bob Ross
The beloved (and often trivialized) TV painter whose works is well-known but never discussed in serious art circles, despite his popularity and track record of bringing art to the masses. He, too, adds his own home-spun, plainspoken commentary to the action.
Andy Warhol
The iconic “Pop Artist” who made a career of pushing the boundaries of art. He spends the play bickering with Ross and Dali as they feud over the merits of their work from beyond the grave.
Hannah
A Eadburg Museum board member who at first seems like just another bureaucrat but soon reveals herself to be vulnerable and unhappy with where she is in life. It turns out she is smitten with one of the grant finalists.
Contact: via email at admin@lendmeatheater.org
