• Audition Registration, The Cottage

    Written by Sandy Rustin & Directed by Alex Wright

  • AUDITIONS FOR 

    The Cottage

    By Sandy Ruskin

    Directed by Alex Wright

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    To be performed 

    February 18 - March 21, 2027

    at 

    Mendocino Theatre COMPANY

    45200 Little Lake Street

    Mendocino, Ca. 95460

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    Auditions to be held on 

    November 15 at 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

    November 16 at 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

    At The Mendocino Theatre Company

    If you can not make either of these times, please reach out and we can make anappointment. I want to see EVERYBODY who is interested. Please bring your A-game and prepare as much as possible. PDF scripts available on this form. Please contact me. This will be absolutely too much fun - guaranteed.

                                                                                 –– Alex Wright

     

    ABOUT THE PLAY:

    Set on a single June morning in 1923 in a quaint family-owned cottage in the Englishcountryside, about ninety minutes outside London, the play tips its hat to Noël Cowardand the classic sex comedies of the past while adding a decidedly modern, feminist twist. Slamming doors, physical comedy, hilarious twists, and a steady stream of surprising revelations abound. Three couples explode in a farcical comedy of manners                                                              -- Sandy Rustin.

     

    QUOTATIONS ABOUT "THE COTTAGE":

    "...a romantic and (not quite) murderous comedy."

    “… sidesplitting screwball comedy … … a fiercely funny play that’s firing on all

    cylinders, with Rustin’s excellent script.”

    “… a naughty romp … Amid the old-fashioned trappings, Rustin nestles a welcome

    modern sensibility to the plot’s skirmishes of the sexes …”

    “… positively delightful … frothy and effervescent.”

     

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  • CHARACTERS: 

    3 Male – 3 Female; Ages 20 – 50

    Couple #1 : Beau and Marjorie

    Marjorie is eight months pregnant. Beau is egotistical, handsome, has no compunction to be faithful, and has several alter-love lives simultaneously active at start of this morning.

    Marjorie has one alter love-life. With Beau’s brother, Clarke. She is pragmatic in her approach to marriage.

    Couple #2 : Clarke and Sylvia

    Clarke is Beau’s brother. He is kind and open-minded and generous in his heart, perhaps to a fault. He is also in love with Marjorie.

    Sylvia is a strong-willed romantic. In many ways. Her rash decision sets the play in motion. She is in love with Beau, and wants everyone to know.

    Couple #3 : Richard and Dierdre

    Very recently divorced, as of this morning. Both have harbored secret lives and loves for many years. Several of them are here in this room, this morning.

    All couples embark on a chaotic, emotional, hilarious, sleighride toward uncovering the truth about themselves and each other. In the tradition of Moliere’s Comedy of Manners and Noel Coward’s flamboyant skewering of social hierarchy, the play is a non-stop pinball comedy that resolves in somewhat of a feminist self-discovery, with a smattering of smug complacency.

    Perusal scripts are available upon request. Please contact: director@mendocinotheatre.org or call: 707-937-2718

     

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    PDF Audition Sides to be be downloaded directly.

     

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