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Auditions for The Wayside Motor Inn

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Auditions for The Wayside Motor Inn
About Auditions for The Wayside Motor Inn

The Belleville Theatre Guild is looking for 10 actors to fill the roles in The Wayside Motor Inn by A. R. Gurney. No experience necessary. Come out Sunday January 5th starting at 2:00 pm or Monday January 6th starting at 7:00 pm.

For performances in April 2025

Directed by Moira Nikander-Forrester

Auditions for "The Wayside Motor Inn" - All Auditions will be held in the Steve Forrester Lounge, Pinnacle Playhouse, 256 Pinnacle St. Belleville ON.

Schedule

Sunday January 5th, 2025 2 pm
Monday January 6th, 2025 7 pm

The play by A.R. Gurney is best described as a 'dramedy', both comedy and drama combine to make this extremely interesting script come to life. It is composed of five separate subplots which take place simultaneously in one room of a suburban motor lodge outside of Boston during the late afternoon and early evening of a spring day in the last 1970's.

The play is about ten ordinary people who find themselves at the wayside of their lives, wondering which turn to take. Their difficulties and conflicts are commonplace, but to give dimension and resonance to their situations their stories are presented side by side, and in some cases, simultaneously, on stage. In this way the playwright has made the ordinary seem somehow extraordinary.

Cast Required: 6 men and 4 women, adults of all ages:

Characters:

RAY, early thirties, a sales rep for a large corporation
FRANK, late sixties, a retired executive
JESSIE, late sixties, Frank's wife
PHIL, early twenties, a student
SALLY, early twenties, a student
VINCE, early fifties, a businessman
MARK, late 'teens, his son
ANDY, early forties, a doctor
RUTH, early forties, his wife
SHARON, thirties, a waitress

Please come to audition with a prepared, modern era monologue of no more than a page in length. There will follow cold reads of the script against other potential actors.

We look forward to putting this artistic, challenging, intriguing show together. See you at auditions!

Moira Nikander-Forrester

Director, "The Wayside Motor Inn"

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