WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE and MOTHERHOOD OUTLOUD
October 8 & 9 | 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts, Studio A
WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE
by Deborah Brevoort
Directed by Fran Pruyn
Performance Dates: Opening March 6, Closing March 22, 2014
12 Performances, Thursday – Saturday evenings, Sunday matinee
Rehearsals: February 3, 2014 – March 5, 2014
Please prepare a monologue from script and be prepared for an non-traditional audition experience.
Contact: Fran Pruyn, Artistic Director, for audition time and script at franpruyn@comcast.net.
A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie Scotland, looking for her son’s remains, which were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the Women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the US Government to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane’s wreckage in order to wash and return them to the victim’s families, and thereby convert an act of hatred into an act of love.
Characters:
- Madeline Livingstone, a surburban housewife from New Jersey. Her twenty-year-old son Adam was killed in the Pan Am 103 crash over Lockerbie, Scotland.
- Bill Livingston, her husband, father of Adam
- Olive Allison, An older woman, from Lockerbie. Leader of the laundry project.
- Woman 1 and 2, women, from Lockerbie.
- Hattie, a cleaning woman, from Lockerbie.
- George Jones, the American government representative in charge of the warehouse storing the remains from the Pan Am 103 flight.
MOTHERHOOD OUT LOUD
Conceived by Susan R. Rose and Joan Stein
Directed by Shellie Waters
Performance Dates: 12 performances opening May 1, 2014 and closing May 17, 2014.
Rehearsals: April 1, 2014 – April 30, 2014
Please prepare a selection from the sides provided.
Please contact Fran Pruyn, Artistic Director, for audition time, script and sides at franpruyn@comcast.net.
Funny, poignant, and utterly unpredictable, Motherhood Out Loud shatters traditional notions about parenthood, unveils its inherent comedy and celebrates the deeply personal truths that span and unite generations.
Actors: Three women – Ages 20 – 60 years old; One man – 20 – 40 years old