Please read the casting description and requirement in full before signing up . Virtual auditions accepted until August 9 @ 11:00pm. Please email director@carlisletheatre.org for questions. Sign up here:
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THE STORY: The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife’s arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie—and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The farmer, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others.
SCHEDULING: Accepting auditions from ages 12 and up. For this project, please do not sign up for a slot if you are under the age of 12. Those auditioning who are under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult in the lobbies. Only auditioners will be permitted into the theatre house for their auditions. We are accepting virtual auditions until August 9 @ 11pm See below for more details
AUDITION DATES/TIMES: Tuesday, August 8 & Thursday, August 10 from 6:00pm-9:00pm. Please sign up for only one audition round. Each round will hold multiple actors, and will last 45-60 minutes. Be prepared to cold read scenes and monologues, as well as take direction in movement and voice individually and as a group. We are looking for strong actors to tell a truthful and specific story.
LOCATION: Carlisle Theatre. 40 W. High Street, Carlisle, PA 17013. Please enter under glass doors of the marquee, and walk into the inner lobby. There, you will check in at the stage manager's table to receive your audition form, and you can submit your headshot and resume.
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:
ROLES: All roles are open. Please see descriptions below. All roles are open. Seeking a multi-ethnic cast for all leading and supporting roles.
John Proctor (30's) - A local farmer who lives just outside town; Elizabeth Proctor’s husband. A stern, harsh-tongued man, John hates hypocrisy. Nevertheless, he has a hidden sin—his affair with Abigail Williams—that proves his downfall. When the hysteria begins, he hesitates to expose Abigail as a fraud because he worries that his secret will be revealed and his good name ruined.
Abigail Williams - (actor ages 16-25, to play age 17) Reverend Parris’s niece. Abigail was once the servant for the Proctor household, but Elizabeth Proctor fired her after she discovered that Abigail was having an affair with her husband, John Proctor. Abigail is smart, wily, a good liar, and vindictive when crossed.
Reverend John Hale (40s-60s) - A young minister reputed to be an expert on witchcraft. Reverend Hale is called in to Salem to examine Parris’s daughter Betty. Hale is a committed Christian and hater of witchcraft. His critical mind and intelligence save him from falling into blind fervor. His arrival sets the hysteria in motion, although he later regrets his actions and attempts to save the lives of those accused.
Elizabeth Proctor - (30s) John Proctor’s wife. Elizabeth fired Abigail when she discovered that her husband was having an affair with Abigail. Elizabeth is supremely virtuous, but often cold.
Reverend Parris - (30s-40s) The minister of Salem’s church. Reverend Parris is a paranoid, power-hungry, yet oddly self-pitying figure. Many of the townsfolk, especially John Proctor, dislike him, and Parris is very concerned with building his position in the community.
Rebecca Nurse - (60s+) Francis Nurse’s wife. Rebecca is a wise, sensible, and upright woman, held in tremendous regard by most of the Salem community. However, she falls victim to the hysteria when the Putnams accuse her of witchcraft and she refuses to confess.
Francis Nurse (70s+) - A wealthy, influential man in Salem. Nurse is well respected by most people in Salem, but is an enemy of Thomas Putnam and his wife.
Judge Danforth - (50s+) The deputy governor of Massachusetts and the presiding judge at the witch trials. Honest and scrupu-lous, at least in his own mind, Danforth is convinced that he is doing right in rooting out witchcraft.
Judge John Hawthorne - (40s+) Judge presiding over the trials, second in command to Judge Danforth; confident and resolute; believes strongly in his own authority and importance; willfully ignorant to any dissent voiced by the community.
Giles Corey - (50s+) An elderly but feisty farmer in Salem, famous for his tendency to file lawsuits. Giles’s wife, Martha, is accused of witchcraft, and he himself is eventually held in contempt of court and pressed to death.
Thomas Putnam - (40s-60s) A wealthy, influential citizen of Salem, Putnam holds a grudge against Francis Nurse for preventing Putnam’s brother-in-law from being elected to the office of minister. He uses the witch trials to increase his own wealth by accusing people of witchcraft and then buying up their land.
Ann Putnam - (40s-60s) Thomas Putnam’s wife. Ann Putnam has given birth to eight children, but only Ruth Putnam survived. The other seven died before they were a day old, and Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means.
Ruth Putnam - The Putnams’ lone surviving child out of eight. Like Betty Parris, Ruth falls into a strange stupor after Reverend Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the woods at night.
Tituba - (30s-late 50s) Reverend Parris’s slave. Tituba agrees to perform voodoo at Abigail’s request.
Mary Warren - (13-18) The servant in the Proctor household and a member of Abigail’s group of girls. She is a timid girl, easily influenced by those around her, who tried unsuccessfully to expose the hoax and ultimately recanted her confession.
Betty Parris - (13-19, to play younger) Reverend Parris’s ten-year-old daughter. Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. Her illness and that of Ruth Putnam fuel the first rumors of witchcraft.
Martha Corey - Giles Corey’s third wife. Martha’s reading habits lead to her arrest and conviction for witchcraft.
Ezekiel Cheever - (30s-50s) A man from Salem who acts as clerk of the court during the witch trials. He is upright and determined to do his duty for justice.
Judge Hathorne - A judge who presides, along with Danforth, over the witch trials. Herrick - The marshal of Salem.
Susannah Walcott- (13-19, to play younger) one of the girls who joins Abigail in crying witchcraft; nervous and worried.
Sarah Good- (20s+) first accused of witchcraft. Poor, friendless, considered mentally unstable, rejected by the town.
Hopkins- (20s+) a guard of the jail
John Willard- (30s+) deputy jailor of the court.
Mercy Lewis - (13-19, to play younger) One of the girls in Abigail’s group.
Additional actors may be considered for townspeople extras.
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