PORT ANGELES — Auditions for “Our Leading Lady,” the fall play at Peninsula College, are open to all community members this coming Thursday night, Sept. 24, at the college.
“Our Leading Lady” director Richard Stephens will host the tryouts, open to women and men of various ages, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Little Theater on campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The show, to take the stage there for evening and matinee performances on the second and third weekends of November, is about Laura Keene, a famous actress and manager whose play is performed one April night in 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln is shot.
2015 marks the sesquicentennial of Lincoln’s assassination, and provides a historical backdrop for “Our Leading Lady,” written by Charles Bausch.
The play is a backstage comedy in which a presidential assassination is a national tragedy — but also “a vexing interruption in a powerful woman’s quest for fame and glory,” as critic Don Shewey wrote in The Advocate.
At Thursday’s auditions, both cold readings and prepared monologues will be welcome. To find out more about the production — which needs crew members as well as performers — contact Stephens at dramarex@gmail.com or 360-775-4991.
