ABOUT KEN LUDWIG'S BASKERVILLE
Get your deerstalker cap on -- the play's afoot! From multi-award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig comes a fast-paced adventure about everyone's favorite detective solving his most notorious case. Although this may be just ... a .... bit ... different .... than what you expect.
To say this play is a ROMP with a capital R is an understatement.
ABOUT THE PARTS
We are looking for actors who are willing to take chances, share the fun with both audience and fellow actors, and are willing to engage in what is sure to be an athletic event on stage.
Split-second character changes, wigs, moustaches, accents, disguises, beards, and transformations are on the menu.
The Characters of Holmes and Watson remain themselve throughout.
The other actors play a variety of roles. Actors 1, 2, & 3 will be called upon to embody and create a multitude of characters including male, female, animal, mineral and infants of all ages employing wigs, Beards, accents, attitudes and fearless creativity to commit 150% on a second's notice.
ABOUT THE AUDITION PROCESS
The auditions for Holmes and Watson will follow a traditional course. We will read the sides provided, and I will ask you to take some direction and run with it. If you are interested in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play an iconic role, I suggest you do some research, look up the original book, watch the old films. (Not so much the Bundersnatch Cummerbund version ...) Our approach will be somewhere between the classic Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes, Young Frankenstein, Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatre, a bit of Wallace and Gromit, Monty Python, and the madcap comedies of the 60's as well as Houdini's stage act and Bill Nye the Science Guy.
The initial auditions for the three actors (Two male, One female) will take place over the course of two days with each day concentrating on a different aspects of stage presence and skills.
Please note - you can mix and match days - 1A and 2B for example - as long as you attend one A day, and one B day.
Please submit or bring a resume, and be prepared to talk with the Director about your thoughts, dreams, and experience in the theatre.