[Nstc] Upcoming Auditions

[Ceil Herman]

Audition Notice;
Saturday, February 17th at 3:00 pm and Sunday, February 18th at 7:00 pm at the Black Box Theater.

In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play written by Sarah Ruhl is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity directed by Joshua Taulbee.

Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat 'hysterical' women (and some men), the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household.

In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating "hysteria" in women (and occasionally men): the vibrator. Adjacent to the doctor's laboratory, his young and energetic wife tries to tend to their newborn daughter—and wonders exactly what is going on in the next room. When a new "hysterical" patient and her husband bring a wet nurse and their own complicated relationship into the doctor's home, Dr. and Mrs. Givings must examine the nature of their own marriage, and what it truly means to love someone.
Needed are three men and four women. 
Dr. Givings - (30s - 40s) A specialist in gynecological and hysterical disorders.
Catherine Givings - (20s - Early 30s) Dr. Givings wife
Sabrina Daldry - (20s - Early 30s)
Mr. Daldry - (40s - 50s) Sabrina Daldry’s husband
Annie - (30s - 40s) Dr. Giving’s midwife assistant
Elizabeth - (30s - 40s) An African American wet nurse.
Leo Irving - (20s-30s) Dr. Givings patient, an Englishman
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. 

Due to adult themes and situations, those auditioning must be at least 18 years old.
A perusal copy of the script is available at the Ask Here! desk at Branigan Library