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In this powerful drama by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays "A Streetcar Named Desire," and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Reverend Shannon, having been relieved of his cloth for sexual misconduct, has landed at the Costa Verde Hotel, near Acapulco, on the verge of a mental breakdown. The owner, an old friend, is prepared to offer him a bed and someone to share it with. The arrival of Miss Hannah Jelkes, a sad, fortyish lady who travels the world painting quick portraits, complicates things even further, as there is a strange and immediate rapport between the discredited cleric and the lonely artist, and Rev. Shannon begins to feel the heat of temptation closing in on every side...
"...Tennessee Williams at the top of his form." - The New York Times
Auditions
Monday, March 15 & Tuesday, March 16
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Redeemer Lutheran Church
4955 158th St.
Oak Forest, IL 60452
The script calls for 8 men and 6 women between the ages of 16 – 97. Character Descriptions are below. Nonno (Jonathan Coffin) - 97 years young but this need not be actor’s actual age. Actor should be at least in late 50s. World traveler, once a poet of some renown as well as his granddaughter's protector at one time. Wolfgang – 20s. German boy vacationing in Mexico or perhaps a Nazi refugee…
Herr Fahrenkopf – 40s-60s. German man vacationing in Mexico or perhaps a Nazi refugee…
Frau Fahrenkopf – 40s-60s. German woman vacationing in Mexico or perhaps a Nazi refugee…
The Men
Lawrence Shannon – Mid 30s – 40s. Defrocked minister, now conducting bus tours of middle aged women through Mexico.
Hank - early 20s to early 30s. Tour bus driver and rather naive.
Jake Latta - 30s to late 50s. Middle management type although he is in fact a tour conductor at Blake’s Tours.
Pedro - 18 - early 30s. Good looking and athletic. Spanish speaking employee and sometimes lover of Maxine’s.
Pancho - 18 - early 30s. Good looking and athletic. Spanish speaking employee and sometimes lover of Maxine’s.
The Women
Maxine Faulk - late 30s - 40s. Earthy and passionate; newly widowed. Proprietor of remote Mexican coastal hotel (the setting of the play).
Hannah Jelkes - mid 30s - early 40s. New England spinster and artist. World traveler and protector of her grandfather Nonno.
Judith Fellowes - 30s – 50s. Butch vocal teacher and overly protective chaperone to Charlotte.
Charlotte Goodall - 16. Sexually precocious vocal savant. Daddy’s spoiled little girl.
Hilda – 20s. German girl vacationing in Mexico or perhaps a Nazi refugee…
Performances
Friday, June 11 & 18
Saturday, June 12 & 19
Governors State University
1 University Parkway
University Park, IL 60484
$14 for adults
$12 for seniors 62 and over and for students with valid i.d.
Group rates available starting with groups of 10 or more.
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