The Book Club Play

By Karen Zacarias

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Audition Dates:

January 27th & 28th at 6pm at The Kathryn Randolph Theater 

 

Performances:

March 14th - 16th & March 21st- 23rd, 2025​

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This production is co-directed by Jim Rogers & Darren Kilbury

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The audition will consist of reading from sides (portions of the script).

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Red Mask Players will hold open auditions for "The Book Club Play" by Karen Zacarias.

All are welcome and newcomers are encouraged!

The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarias is a comedy about life, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.

Synopsis of the Show:

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Ana is a Type A personality who lives in a letter-perfect world with an adoring husband, the perfect job and her greatest passion: Book Club. But when her cherished group becomes the focus of a documentary film, their intimate discussions about life and literature take a turn for the hilarious in front of the inescapable camera lens. Add a provocative new member along with some surprising new book titles, and these six friends are bound for pandemonium.

Roles:

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Cast: 3m., 3w, 1 either.

Characters:

ANA SMITH: 30s. Pronounced "Ah-nuh." Beautiful. Charming. Smart. Accomplished. A newspaper columnist for a daily paper. Her grace masks a need to control.

ROBERT NOVUM SMITH JR: 30s Ana's golden-boy. handsome, charismatic, underachiever who is starting to search for meaning. Met in college. Upper-crust background

WILLIAM LEE NOTHNAGEL: 30s, ROB's conservative, well-read, well-dressed college roommate. ANA's former boyfriend. History bug. Unmarried.

JENNIFER McCLINTOCK: 30s. ANA's friend. Pretty. Shy. Smart. Tends to burst out with awkward truthful comments. Unorganized and oblivious to her own attractiveness. Unmarried.

LILY LOUISE JACKSON: black. 20s. A go-getter. Former debate captain who is on the cusp of all current trends and yet can still put her foot in her mouth in social occasions. Laughs at appropriate and inappropriate times. ANA's protege at the paper.

ALEX: 30s The new guy. Very smart, well-read academic who has lost his moorings and is searching for real connection. Professor of comparative literature.

PUNDIT (either): plays five characters: SAM, Wal-Mart guy; FRANK, Secret Service agent; ELSA, jaded literary agent; MRS. SIMPSON, sky diver; CARL, inmate book dealer.