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To request an audition, please email your headshot and resume and the role you’d like to be considered for with subject line “Shane Audition Request” to Becca Holloway at: auditions@citylit.org.
City Lit Theater does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or productions.
Material to Prepare:
If selected for an audition, you will be asked to prepare sides from the script for an in-person appointment.
Time Commitment:
Workshop - Saturday, May 30th
First rehearsal - Wednesday, July 8th (Tentative: Sat OR Sun 1-5pm, M-Th 7-10pm)
Rehearsal Break - Monday, July 20th to Sunday, July 26th
(Last Rehearsal on Sunday, July 19th and first back on Monday the 27th)
Tech - Saturday, August 15th-20th (Sat 10-6, Sun 12:30-6. Monday OFF. Tues -Thurs 6:30-11pm)
(No rehearsal conflicts past this point)
Previews - August 21st-28th (Fri + Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3pm)
Opening - Saturday, August 29th
Run: August 29th - October 4th (Fri + Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3pm)
Monday performances: September 21st, September 28th
Character Type/Restrictions:
All roles can be played by any race. Gun play and stage-combat experience is a plus. Available roles are all male characters, open to cis and trans/GNC actors.
Bob Starrett (M) - Narrator - Shifts between a young man in his 20's and a 9-11 year old boy. Son of Joe and Marian. As a child the events of the play are confusing and frightening, but also exciting. As an adult, he is still processing his experience, but with a slightly more worldly framework.
Shane (M) - A gunfighter in his 20's or 30's. Haunted by past violence and cruelty. The kindness of the Starretts opens a door to a new life, a better version of himself. He makes a new, more just version of the valley possible, but can never live within it.
Joe Starrett (M) - A farmer and homesteader, late 30's or 40's. A physically strong and capable man. Deeply intelligent, charismatic, and a natural leader for the farmers and homesteaders. Father of Bob and husband of Marian.
Marian Starrett (F) - Joe's wife and Bob's mother. Late 30's to early 40's. A woman who comes from a much more genteel world than where she finds herself now. She's determined to raise her son with some sense of refinement. She is opiniated, but those opinions are delivered with clear intelligence and wit. Shane somehow represents both a connection to a more elevated way of life, and a darkly alluring sense of danger. Which is why she finds an attraction, and, in the end? She probably understands Shane better than either her husband or son. (THIS ROLE HAS BEEN CAST, SEEKING UNDERSTUDY)
Ledyard/Wilson (M) - Ledyard is a traveling salesman. Shane exposes his scams. Any age. Wilson is late 20's to early 30's. An amoral gunslinger. He reflects Shane as he was before meeting the Starretts.
Ernie Wright (M) - 30's to 60's. A farmer and homesteader. He has a quick temper.
Lou Shipstead (M) - 30's to 60's. A farmer and homesteader. The more cool-headed of the Starrett's neighbors.
Chris (M) - 20's a youthful ranch-hand in the employ of Fletcher. Unsure of the violence, but desperate to prove himself.
Curly (M) - 30's to 40's Ranch hand for Fletcher. Not terribly bright or brave, but he's senior to Chris, and expected to do a little more, although he immediately passes it off to the kid.
Grafton (M) - 40's to 60's the owner of the saloon and general store. His position as the man who provides what people want gives him some strong status in the community. He knows things others don't. His daughter is the local schoolteacher.
Fletcher (M) - 40's to 60's. The cattle baron of the valley, and the power both financially and politically. He's a free ranger, and is committed to keeping the land of the valley open to all, especially his herd. After all, it's more profitable if he doesn't have to pay for the land his herds graze on.
To apply for this job email your details to info@citylit.org