Auditions

26th Annual New Voice Play Festival

Auditions:

Monday, May 4 at 7pm
Tuesday, May 5 at 5pm

At the Old Opera House Theatre – Charles Town, WV

Be one of the first actors to play a role in these four new plays …

 The 26th Annual New Voice Play Festival
will be held on June 19, 20, 21

Dust to Dust

By Johanna Beale Keller (Syracuse, NY)
Directed by Charlie Perkins

Prudence has come home from London to the small Southern town of Smallville to help her hilariously hypochondriacal sister, Verity, with the details of their father's passing, whom they both loved. The fastidious housekeeper Dotty will vacuum up anything it seems (oops) and then there is a mix-up of ashes when the local funeral director, Rufus T. Bullcocke, and longtime lost love of Verity, arrives. But it turns out there is a hidden love affair that no one ever suspected!

Roles available for four older actors - 3 women and 1 man

The Get-Away

By Rich Rubin (Portland, OR)
Directed by Caroline Brewer

A husband and wife are startled by what they encounter at an isolated lakeside cabin.

Roles available for 2 women and 2 men, ages 30-50

The Princess and the Crone

By Enid Cokinos (Carmel, IN)
Directed by Val Phillips

Retirement is looming for Haldora Grizzletoes, an aging fairy godmother whose long-awaited dream of being honored at the prestigious Winterfall Croning Ceremony is slipping away. A recent princess-related debacle threatens to unravel her aspirations, and as she stands before the Crone Council of Winterfall, she makes a final plea for one more matchmaking assignment to prove her merit. But will this last chance be too challenging for even the great Haldora?

Roles available for 3 women (18, 50, 60), 1 man (any age), and one off-stage female voice

The Sillage Mirage

By Jay Huling (Jacksonville, FL)
Directed by Joey Thorne

Set inside an austere, nearly empty perfume boutique, The Sillage Mirage follows Robert Dorian, a self-assured businessman in search of a cologne that will make him irresistible. He quickly learns that Sillage Perfumery does not offer choices: its enigmatic proprietor, Madam Agnew, assigns each customer the scent that suits their true essence. As devoted patrons return, transformed by fragrances they trust blindly, Dorian’s confidence curdles into entitlement and rage when he is denied what he wants most. A darkly comic morality play, The Sillage Mirage explores obsession with image, the illusion of self-knowledge, and the cost of believing the world should conform to one’s desires — revealing, in its final moments, that some essences linger longer than others.

Roles available 3 women, 2 men