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<FONT FACE="Verdana">Special announcement for an upcoming play at the <I>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre</I>-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">Open Auditions for <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane </I>by Martin McDonagh<BR>
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<I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> announces auditions for <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane </I>by Martin McDonagh. The cast for this powerful Irish play is especially important for this production.<B> </B>Martin McDonagh, the playwright, has been described by the New York Times as “The most wickedly, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist on either side of the Irish Sea.” Rehearsals for <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane </I>begin late July in Moscow and performances are September 8-10, 15-17, 2005 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow, Idaho. <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> will supply housing in Moscow and provide a stipend for actors.<BR>
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Open auditions are being held at the following locations: <BR>
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<B>Monday, May 2, 7:00 pm</B>, Idaho Room at the <B>University Inn</B> Best Western, 1516 Pullman Road, <B>Moscow</B>, Idaho <BR>
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<B>Tuesday, May 3, 6:30 pm</B>, Conference Room at <B>Auntie’s Bookstore</B>, 402 W. Main, <B>Spokane</B>, Washington <BR>
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<B>Wednesday, May 4, 6:30 pm</B>, <B>Buster’s at ACT Theatre</B>, 700 Union St., <B>Seattle</B>, Washington. <BR>
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The cast consists of four characters: two women – one fortyish plain and domestic, the other 65-70 stout and frail; and two men – one forty good looking local Irishman, one younger brother age 20. Irish dialect is preferred at the audition but not required. Prepared monologues are encouraged but not required.<BR>
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Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane </I>tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen’s first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.<BR>
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The production is directed by Forrest Sears, Professor Emeritus of Theatre, University of Idaho. Sears has directed almost a hundred productions in his career; his latest was the <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> production of <I>Random Acts of Love</I> by Bruce Gooch, staged at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in April 2005. In addition to the University of Idaho, he has worked at the Whitefish Montana Theatre Company and the University of Wyoming Summer Theatre. He is the recipient of the University of Idaho Teacher of the Year Award and the Moscow Mayor's Award in the Arts as distinguished theatre educator. Recently, he taught acting for the Youth Company at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise and presented a master class in American acting at the National Theatre School of Finland in Tempere.<BR>
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Please forward this email to friends in Moscow, Spokane and Seattle.<BR>
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For more information call John Dickinson at 208-301-4361 or visit the website <www.siriusidahotheatre.com><BR>
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Contact information:<BR>
Sirius Idaho Theatre, P.O. Box 8762, Moscow, ID 83843<BR>
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PAMELA PALMER, <B>Volunteer<BR>
</B>Mailto:ppalmer@moscow.com<BR>
Film and Events Committee <BR>
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
To speak with a KPAC staff member, <BR>
call (208) 882-4127<BR>
Mailto:kpac@moscow.com<BR>
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