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BCC Players Holding Auditions For Winter Production10:37AM / Thursday, December 01, 2011
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The BCC Players will be holding auditions Monday, Dec. 5, for the winter production of "Seriously Funny: An Evening of Short Plays by David Mamet, Harold Pinter and Shel Silverstein."
Auditions will take place from 4:30 to 8 in the Boland Theatre at Berkshire Community College and are open to community members as well as BCC staff and students. Readings will be provided for the auditions, although those attending may wish to also bring a monologue. The performances will be held the last two weekends of February, with most rehearsals beginning around mid- to late January.
The production will comprise rarely staged humorous short plays by three of the world's best playwrights. Included in the evening will be classic pieces from Pinter's early "Revue Sketches" as well as some of his later material. Mamet will be represented with selections from his early "Vermont" and "L.A. Sketches" as well as some very funny new material. The late Silverstein, author of such classic children's books as "The Giving Tree" as well as country western songs such as "A Boy Named Sue," will offer his twisted view of American life.
Jim Frangione will direct and has edited and selected the plays in hopes of giving the theatergoer an assortment of styles from each of these gifted playwrights. Frangione is an artistic director of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab and a longtime collaborator of Mamet, having appeared in several of his films ("Homicide," "The Spanish Prisoner," "Heist," "State and Main" and "Spartan") and many plays.
For more information, contact Ellen Shanahan at 413-236-4703 or eshanaha@berkshirecc.edu.
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