Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Auditions in San Antonio for Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets, Proxy Theatre at Overtime Theatre Center, January 28, 2013


Proxy Theatre San Antonio TXAuditions for Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets, 7-9 p.m. January 28th at the Overtime Theatre Center, 1203 Camden Street, San Antonio, 78215. View Map · Get Directions

Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue.

Waiting for Lefty Odets Proxy Theatre San Antonio TXCallbacks 7-10 p.m. January 29th. Rehearsal schedule will be determined by the director and cast.

Show dates are: March 7-23 (tentative to move back one week), Thursdays-Saturdays at 8.

Waiting for Lefty, a Clifford Odets 1935 play, begins with several taxi drivers meeting to convince their union leader Harry Fatt to let them strike. The meeting is interrupted with vignettes showing each driver’s personal reasons for wanting to strike. Originally intended to be an agitprop play put on by the Group Theatre, Waiting for Lefty shows all the hardships and struggles of the American worker in the 1930s and points out the flaws in capitalism’s American Dream (some of which still exist today). (Further background available at Wikipedia.com.)Thirteen male roles, 20-60 yrs, three female roles, 20-30 yrs.

Click 'Read more' to view the list of characters at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

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