AUDITIONS!

Auditions for Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo will be held at Theatre 810 on Friday, November 30 at 7pm and Saturday, December 1 at 3pm.

  We are casting ONE FEMALE LEAD to play the role of Ann, a strong and loving woman who is unhappy with her status-quo marriage and is ready to poke and prod it a little to find out what's underneath.

Actors interested should be 27-40 and should come prepared with a one-minute contemporary monologue.  We will also ask for a short cold-read from the script (we will provide.)  The production will be directed by Cooper Helm, and will show the last weekend of January and the first weekend of February with a preview on January 25th.

Thank you to all who share this and are interested.  If you have any questions about the auditions or the play, please feel free to contact me.

Scott Gremillion
sufficious@yahoo.com
337-706-2177


   Acting Unlimited will be holding auditions for John Biguenet's Shotgun, which will be performed in collaboration with the Swine Palace of Baton Rouge, and Southern Rep. of New Orleans as part of The Katrina Cycle.  The auditions will take place at Theatre 810 (810 Jefferson Street in Lafayette) on Saturday, December 15 (1-3pm) and Sunday, December 17 (6:30-8:30pm.)

     We are looking for actors for the following roles:

 Beau Harlan, a white carpenter in his mid-thirties

 Eugene Harlan, Beau's sixteen-year-old son

 Mattie Godchaux, a black woman in her thirties   

 Dexter (Dex) Godchaux, Mattie's father, in his early sixties

 Clarence (Willie) Williams, Mattie's black ex-boyfriend, about Mattie's age

     If you need more information, or have any questions about the play or the production, please feel free to email us at actingunlimited@gmail.com.  If you would like to audition, but cannot make these dates,  please feel free to contact us before the audition dates to arrange an alternative time.

We All Do -Wanderlust Theatre Co.

Wanderlust Theatre Company continues its 2012-13 season with the original piece, We All Do by Lafayette native Jarin Schexnider! In this provocative work, a loner named Charlie befriends the world around her, exploring the similarities in struggle and happiness that bind humans and nature. Presented in a highly physical, movement based style, this environmental theatre production calls upon an ensemble of actors to play dozens of characters. Wanderlust is excited to be partnering with Feed & Seed Community Art House to present the first theatre production at this kinetic, unwrought venue.

The ensemble cast is comprised of Erin Broussard, Aren Chaisson III, Steven Cooper, Jan Erin Corzo, Andrew D. Hunter II, M. Brady McKellar, Deserea Noriega, Jarin Schexnider and Patricia Drury Sidman. Elsa Dimitriadis directs.

NOTE: In keeping with themes from the work, a special $1 off the ticket price promotion will be offered to anyone bicycling to a performance. Discount only applies to tickets purchased in person at the box office.

Wednesday, Dec. 12 through Saturday, Dec. 15 at 7:30 pm
& Sunday, December 16 at 3:00 pm
At the Feed & Seed Community Art House
106 N. Grant Street, Downtown Lafayette

$10 Admission
For ticket reservations, call (337) 504-5367 or purchase online at
wealldo.eventbrite.com
For additional information about the company, visit
www.wanderlusttheatre.com or facebook.com/wanderlusttheatre

The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - Opening this weekend!

The Tea-Sippers, a local youth theatre troupe managed by its all-teen membership, will perform The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds at 7:30 p.m. on November 30, December 1, and December 7th and 8th and at Cite des Arts in downtown Lafayette. Tickets are available for $10 in advance at citedesarts.org or at the door.

The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, by Paul Zindel , follows Tillie, a timid girl who is verbally, emotionally, and rarely physically abused by her mother throughout her life. But in a twist of events, Tillie win the science fair, and proves to her mother that she is more than just “half a test tube."  Author Zindel wrote the piece in 1964 and it raises awareness of emotional abuse in the home. The Tea-Sippers are hoping to attract Acadiana teens and their families to publicize the cruelty many children face in their own homes on a daily basis.

      “We go to school every day and see people that we don’t necessarily know, or understand, and think that we can judge them based on what they look and dress like, when in reality we have no idea what they’re going through,” said Kaitlin Romero, 17-year-old Tea-Sippers’ actor and founding company member. “Hopefully this performance can get people to understand that there is always more to a story than is told, and that though you may think you understand someone, you really have no idea what they have gone through,” continued Romero, director and company founding member.
      “We can all relate to things. Yes, we know what it's like to be made fun of or what it feels like to feel unloved or unimportant. "Marigolds" is a story of normal people in the middle of realizing just how hard times can get. We all know a verbally abusive person or someone whose goal is to please others. It's a sad story in some ways, but in the end, it's the story of life," added Vincent, 17 year old director and founding company member.
 
All plays produced by the Tea Sippers are performed, directed, and managed completely by teens. 

The Tea-Sippers, named for their daily rehearsal-opening activity, came together as a group in September 2010 after being cast in a play at Cite des Arts. A few student actors noticed that there was a free spot in July 2011 on the Cite des Arts calendar, and they immediately booked the opening and decided that they would put on a play. Meetings for the project progressed to discussions about becoming a formal theatre troupe, and the group decided that they, as teenagers, could benefit from the responsibility and satisfaction of managing such a troupe. Since then, they have directed, acted in, and produced 9 other plays including Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Happy Birthday Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, and Seventy Scenes of Halloween, all without the direction and constant aid of adults.
For more information on the performances or The Tea-Sippers, contact Cite des Arts at (337) 291-1122.

Hub City Theater and Storytelling Festival – Dec. 6-9, 2012

      Lafayette - Cité des Arts, Acadiana Center for the Arts and Theatre 810 are presenting the Hub City Theater and Storytelling Festival, Thursday, Dec. 6- Sun., Dec. 9, 2012.  The Festival will consist of original works, plays, storytelling, readings, street performances, workshops and panels – and a Liars Contest (AKA The Honorable Practice and Art of the Tall Tale).  Signups are online for the Liar’s contest or open registration and preliminary rounds are Saturday, Decemeber 8th up stairs at ACA.  The performances, workshops and group panels will be for writers, directors, actors, storytellers, teachers, parents and kids – and audiences of every character and spirit.
     
     The HCTSF mission is to foster the Southern literary arts by supporting, encouraging and cultivating new and emerging voices in the performing arts, as well as, developing new audiences for these voices.  The festival will take place at three locations:  Cité des Arts, Theatre 810 and Acadiana Center for the Arts.  Theatre 810 is hosting the first annual Entrances Student Theatre Festival where theatre students in our area can present their mid-year work to one another, network and attend workshops on both performance and technical aspects of theatre.

For a copy of the schedule and to purchase tickets for performances, go to www.citédesarts.org .  For more information call Christy Leichty, Cité des Arts Program Director, (337) 291-1122.

Cheaters!

The Riveters Present: Cheaters  By Michael Jacobs

Allen and Michelle have been living together for eighteen months. It is the first real relationship for both of them. Michelle thinks they should marry; Allen isn’t sure. His hesitancy drives her home to her parents for advice Michelle’s Father isn’t aware that it is Allen’s mother he has been seeing for the last six months and would now like to get rid of, nor does Michelle’s mother know that it is Allen’s father she has just spent the night with and would like to see more of The pieces fall uproariously into place when the parents decide to meet the young lovers over dinner to lend their maturity and experience for the benefit of their children’s relationship. It’s suddenly everyone for himself in this wild, rollicking look at love and romance

Directed by: Martin Smith
Stage Manager: Amber Izdepski
Prop Master: Jenna Fontenot
Poster Design: Bree Quereau

Cast:
Monica- Leah Pratt
Howard- Billy Walker
Grace- Kristen DuBois
Sam- Dustin Lafleur
Allen- Andre Trahan
Michelle- Elizabeth Satterly

January 10 - January 12 @ 7:30 pm   January 13 @ 3:00 pm
January 17 - January 19 @ 7:30 pm    January 20 @ 3:00 pm

General Admission- $15.00
with a Student ID- $10.00

For More Information visit www.citedesarts.org or call 337.291.1122

Through Thick or Thin

Through Thick or Thin A Local, Original Play by Trina Tapo
 

Dates: Dec 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16
Times: Fri & Sat @ 7:30pm
          Sun @2:00pm
Where: Cité des Arts, 109 Vine Street, Downtown Lafayette off of Jefferson
Ticket Price: $10, for Reservations call 337-291-1122 purchase through Paypal, www.citedesarts.org, or at the door.
     Lance and Lisa Patterson may not be identical twins, but they do share an identical thorn in the side, their mother!  Lynette Patterson is determined that she knows what’s best for her children especially when it involves their love lives.  The only person who is able to contain Lynette’s comical sarcasm is her husband, Quincy. “Through Thick or Thin” explores relationships between lovers, parents, siblings, and friends. When these relationships become intertwine, communication can become confusing.

Auditions! Opelousas Little Theatre

Opelousas Little Theatre will be holding auditions for our annual Showcase feature this weekend and next!  

     What is Showcase?  It is an opportunity for the local talents from our neighboring and local communities to display their personal talents- AND -a chance for the directors at OLT to hopefully populate their currrent season of shows with the area's best performers. 
      Got all that?  

     We are looking for singers, actors, musicians of all kinds, and all things art. So, if you may be interested in doing your thing on our humble stage, we invite you to open auditions for the show!  We will have two auditions dates on Dec.1 and 8 @ 5pm at the Opelousas Little Theatre, located in the South City Park in Opelousas.  Rehearsals for the show will take place during the first two weeks of January 2013 and the show will run on 8 days split between the last two weekends of January.  If you or yours would like to participate in community theatre, please attend... we look forward to your visit!

For more information, call Duncan @ 351-3822

Celles d’en Haut /The Women From On High

Celles d’en Haut /The Women From On High

By playwright Olivier Kemeid (Québec) Directed by Olivier Coyette (Belgium)

The piece will be performed entirely in French and then entirely in English with a wine and nibble "pause" between the two versions.  Come for one or both.  Each version lasts 75 minutes.

With:  Barbara Robertson, of Chicago theater and film acclaim, Park Krausen and Carolyn Cook from Le Théatre du Rêve in Atlanta, and Kevin McCoy, director of Théâtre Humain and collaborator of Robert Lepage’s Ex-Machina company in Quebec.

Set in an "establishment" and inspired by a Cindy Sherman photograph, this original work by Olivier Kemeid is crazy,colorful shrewd and full of humor. It questions human choices, examines the theme of sickness, the power of medicine and our quickness to submit blindly to it. Within all this and within the walls of the establishment lies the “possibility of an island,” medical or not: beneficial and restorative, set apart from the deafening din of the world. A deep bond develops.

The work of Québec director Olivier Kemeid has been performed at the Festival d’Avignon, the Red Bull Theater in NYC as well as in Québec, Belgium, Germany and Hungary. Olivier Kemeid was also the artistic director of Théâtre Espace Libre in Montreal from 2006 to 2010.

Théâtre du Rêve is the only professional French-language theatre company in the United States, and is dedicated to the performance of high-quality theatre from across the Francophone world right here on the American stage.

The play will be read by professional actors at Cité des Arts, on December 10th in French and English 7:00pm, suggested Donation is $10.00

The Celtic Cross

The Celtic Cross - a new play by Matthew Jackson - makes a stop in Lafayette, LA as part of an International Tour.
Presented by Wanderweg Productions in collaboration with The University of Louisiana Lafayette.

Featuring:
Matthew Jackson and Bryan Sullivan

"The Celtic Cross is a beautiful, harrowing, captivating play with heartfelt, heartbreaking characters and the perfect mix of history, timeliness, and looking forward. In the tradition of so much good theater, Wanderweg's two-person traveling production feels grand and sweeping even as it hits so close to home."
- Laurie Frankel, Author (Atlas of Love and Goodbye for Now)

9 out of 10! - News Leader Pictorial
"...what great acting is all about." - The Marble
"...captures the Irish wit." - Drama in the Hood

In Northern Ireland, two communities are at odds with each other. Their conflict is not only political, but ideological. The Protestant Loyalist side believes that Northern Ireland should remain part of the United Kingdom. The Catholic Nationalist side believes that Northern Ireland should become part of the Republic of Ireland. "The Troubles" refer to the thirty years of violence and terrorism between these two groups. Peace resolutions in the late 1990s attempted to bring an end to the sectarian violence, but the peace achieved is a shaky one.

The Celtic Cross is the story of the unlikely friendship that forms between Jacob and Thomas, two young men in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Jacob is a Protestant Loyalist and Thomas is a Catholic Nationalist. Set in the early 1990s, before the peace agreement, these two men have lived their entire life during "the Troubles." Although they are conditioned to hate each other, an improbable friendship unfolds, but their circumstances force them to choose between their friendship and their beliefs.

This powerful new drama explores what it means to be Protestant, Catholic, Irish, British, too powerful for your own good, but too weak to change anything. But at its deepest  at its core  the play shows these two characters in their struggle to find humanity; in their friend, in their enemy, but most importantly  in themselves.
The performances will be at Cité des Arts, tickets maybe purchased at the door, or from the website www.citedesarts.org.  Reservations can be made by calling 337-291-1122.

December 14th at 7:30 pm
December 15th at 7:30 pm
Contains Strong Language and Violence
$12 for Students & Seniors
$15 General Admission

Scrooge, the Musical -opening this weekend!

Eunice Players' Theatre is proud to present the hilarious comedy by Alan Ball, Five Women Wearing The Same Dress, as the third and final show of their 43rd season. The play is directed by Gabe Ortego. 

     The plot surrounds five bridesmaids who sequester themselves in a bedroom immediately following the wedding in which they served. Through the course of the afternoon, they drunkenly bare their souls and discover a common bond. Sparks fly between one of the women and a charming bad-boy usher. The show includes adult humor and smoking onstage.
      The cast includes Kaitlin LeBleu, of Basile, as Frances; Bonnie Pitre, of Eunice, as Meredith; Amy Martel Rider, of Eunice, as Trisha; Adrienne Renee Miller, of Eunice, as Georgeanne; Kelly Pitre, of Eunice, as Mindy; and Joshua Carriere, of Eunice, as Tripp.

Performance dates:
November 29 at 6:00 p.m. - Dinner Theatre
November 30 at 7:00 p.m.    December 2 at 2:00 p.m.
December 5 at 7:00 p.m.      December 6 at 7:00 p.m.
December 7 at 7:00 p.m.      December 8 at 7:00 p.m.

 

     Tickets are available by calling David at David Ltd. Hair Salon, 337-546-0163 or Debi at Turning Point, 337-457-2156. Visa and MasterCard may be used for advance purchase. Tickets are $10; dinner is additional $15, plus tip.

The theatre is located at 121 S. Second St. in Eunice.

A Christmas Story

            Iberia Performing Arts League wi ll present Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story  adapted by Philip Grecian as its third offering in its 2012-13 season.  
     The show opens at IPAL’s ESSANEE Theater in New Iberia on Thursday, December 6, 2012, and plays for two weekends, closing on Sunday, December 16.  2012. Curtain is at 7:30 PM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and 3 PM on Sunday afternoons. Tickets are $10 and may be obtained at Delaune’s Pharmacy, Paul’s Flowers and Accentrics on Main Street, by calling the theater at 364-6114 and leaving a name and phone number.          
     A celebration of seasonal joys, the family friendly play is about growing up in the 1940’s and Ralphie Parker’s quests for a genuine Red Ryder BB Gun.  All of the elements of the beloved motion picture are here, including the family’s temperamental exploding furnace, Scut Farkas, the school bully, and Ralphie’s father winning a lamp shapd like a woman’s leg in a net stocking.  Toys and Christmas presents today may be different, but a young boy’s pursuit of his goal never changes!
       Directed by Vincent P. Barras and  Carmen Nicholson , the production has a host of adults including: Jamie Castille, Jenny Gonsoulin, Lanie Marcantel, Virginia Molbert, La Doris Polite, Julaine Schexnayder and Bernard Terradot.
      Lead Ralphie Parker is played by 11 year old Nicholas LeBlanc and other younger actors include Thomas Beaullieu, Madicyn Boudreaux, Kaliana Brower, Carmen Gonsoulin,  Ryan Michael Gonsoulin, Hilary Hebert, Christa Hulin , William Lambert, Kelbi LaShare, Andrew Lewis, Olivia Lopez, Camille Morvant, Hayden Patout, Aleece Patout, Parker Robichaux, Macie Ann Romero, Maddi Terradot, and Sydni Terradot.

            The production is sponsored by First National Bank of Jeanerette. Additional support provided by a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council, through the Louisiana Divisions of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

For questions or additional information visit IPAL’s website or email ipal@cox.net.

Upcoming Classes!

Commercial Acting 101 (101 Things You Need To Know Before Your Audition) taught by commercial veteran Bill Coelius, is the product of his experience acting in over 35 national commercials, and auditioning on a weekly basis in today’s market. From slate to set, Bill shares a carefully crafted game plan that will help you book and shoot that national commercial.
 From a reminder as basic as remembering to bring black socks to the shoot, to psychological exercises designed to help you recognize how your habitual patterns of fear-based thinking may prevent you from booking, Bill presents a myriad of skills, strategies and trade secrets that will turn your beliefs about yourself and the industry inside-out. Commercial Acting 101 covers everything from a review of basic skills such as slating, sign-in, and making copy your own, to the hidden rules of auditioning and the secrets of on-set behavior.

Commercial Acting 101 tackles everything from the mundane to the mystical. Does how you sign in affect your chances of booking the job? Are there things you can do while walking off set to ensure a future job? Are there absolute rules about acting that will help you book a national commercial? Can you work fearlessly, and truly enjoy every audition? Commercial Acting 101 will explain why all of those questions are answered with a definite YES!
 
Student Quotes:
     “This is the most effective audition class I've ever taken - and I've taken many of them. I BOOKED a commercial 2 days after the class ended. The specific skill set bill taught me in class, hands down, was the sole reason I booked that commercial. Bill's class helped me extinguish the nervousness and my fear that plagued so many of my auditions, thereby helping me to realize my true creative potential. As an actor, I feel transformed into the type of artist I've always wanted to be. I can't recommend this class enough. and I feel confident that I can book so many more commercials. THANK YOU, BILL!!”- Shuo Z.   
      “It was awesome. Bill was full of information, and he was positive and inspiring. I really enjoyed everything about it. I want to be taught by an actor who is a WORKING actor and knows what they are talking about!” –Hollie
     “ Bill was so kind and generous, and pointed out in a great way a deeper meaning on how to be successful. It was fascinating for me because I realized I am often only too happy to help people in my everyday life but had not thought about taking this into the audition room. Extremely helpful. Thank you.” -Liz F.
      "Bill is an enlightened teacher: it was hard for everyone to leave the room once class was over! Aside from the rich toolbox of practical, repeatable commercial audition skills that Bill imparts, the warmth, respect, enthusiasm, and high spirit of play that he brings to the room quickly brings out the best work in all actors. I left the class not only with the confidence to succeed, but with real excitement for my next commercial audition." –Jacquelyn L.
     “Bill is the Yoda of commercial acting technique.”- Chris B.

Class will meet  Jan. 26 &27 (Sat-Sun) 10-5pm each day, location to be announced.
The cost for the class is $125.

You can contact Bill at  billcoelius@gmail.com or at 917 568 4391, or Aren Chaisson is acting as his 'local contact,' at arenchaisson@gmail.com.


MASTER ACTING WORKSHOP -- Cite des Arts, Lafayette, La.

December 13, 14, 17, 18, and 19th, 4:30-6:30pm each day
109 Vine Street/off of Jefferson Street Downtown

'Tis the "12 Days of Christmas" season...a perfect time for the 8 classic comic characters to take over Cite des Arts for a master acting workshop for actors of all ages and levels of experience.
 

NYU professor Caroline McGee will develop your personal "clown" using  commedia dell' arte, classic sitcom genres, & dramatists John Patrick Shanley, Christopher Durang, Neil Simon, John Guare, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, and more ...are you the smart one, the lovable loser, the neurotic, the dumb one, the witch/bastard, the womanizer/manizer, the material one, or "in their own universe" type?
 **Also available, coaching for auditions for BFA and MFA applications, as well as finding the right school and the financial aid to pay for it!**

For more info: mcgeec50@yahoo.com

Professor Caroline McGee 
Caroline McGee is a performing arts educator with deep roots to the professional New York and international theatre & film community. She trained with Bobby Lewis (Yale Drama), Elaine Aiken, William Esper, Wynn Handman, Michael Howard, and Jean-Pierre Vincent in France (CODOFIL scholarship).  Theatre work includes the Sarajevo & Dubrovnik Festivals, NY Shakespeare, Yale Rep, Williamstown & Berkshire Festivals, Opera Theater of St. Louis, PS 122, The Ohio, Soho Rep, and film work with Norman Jewison, Woody Allen, Gena Rowlands, Gregory Peck, Danny DeVito.

During the past two decades, McGee served as Director/Producer at The Lee Strasberg Institute, and the NYU Tisch BFA Acting Studio. She produced the NYU Graduate Music Writing festival and new plays by Robert Auletta, Saviana Stanescu and the Presnyakov Brothers. As Associate Professor and Director/Chair McGee ran the MFA Acting Program at Catholic University, and is currently Program Director of NewGeneRussian, whose teachers received their master’s at the legendary Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia.

Caroline serves on the New York State Council of the Arts and her articles and reviews appear in Western European Stages and Slavic & Eastern European Performance.

You wish to go to the festival?

     In cooperation with the Hub City Theatre Festival, Theatre 810 is hosting the first annual Entrances Student Theatre Festival where theatre students in our area can present their mid-year work to one another, network and attend workshops on both performance and technical aspects of theatre.  We are excited to be able to offer this event to the area, and we hope that it will begin friendships that last as long as many of ours have. 
   
    We are excited to announce our schedule of events:
   
    Entrances Student Theatre Festival 2012 Schedule
   
    Friday, December 7, 2012
    7:00 PM Welcome/Opening remarks
    7:30 PM The Masks, by Melissa Watson
            performed by LJ Alleman Talented Theatre & Theatre IV students
   
    Saturday, December 8, 2012
    10:00 AM Welcome/Opening Remarks
    10:15 AM Technical Portfolio Presentation/Discussion for students
    11:30 AM A sneak preview of Firelight Performing Arts’ Scrooge!
    NOON      AUI Theatre Academy presents work by the Tween Acting Class
    12:30 PM Lunch Break
    1:30 PM Theatre students from Lafayette High Performing Arts Academy present their semester work
    2:00 PM Mock Audition/Feedback Workshop for students
    3:00 PM The Masks, by Melissa Watson
            performed by LJ Alleman Talented Theatre & Theatre IV students
    4:00 PM AUI Theatre Academy presents work by the Teen Acting Class
    4:30 PM A sneak preview of The Tea Sippers’ Theatre Co. production of The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
    5:00 PM Cult of the Stage Monkeys Improv Presentation
    7:30 PM The Masks, by Melissa Watson
             performed by LJ Alleman Talented Theatre & Theatre IV students
   
    Sunday, December 9, 2012
    3:00 PM The Masks, by Melissa Watson
             performed by LJ Alleman Talented Theatre & Theatre IV students

Happy Thanksgiving! (have an extra helping of theatre!)

Happening now!

A Christmas Tuna for Thanksgiving weekend! Get your tickets now for the Hilarious Comedy with Shane Guilbeau, and Kyle Bourque. What could be better entertainment for the entire family?  Eat the Turkey--laugh it all off at the show!   November 21-25 (last show is a Sunday Matinee at 2:00) AND YES!  We're having a show on Thanksgiving evening!!  Buy your tickets online at www.citedesarts.org.









Coming Soon!

 

 Eunice Players' Theatre is proud to present the hilarious comedy by Alan Ball, Five Women Wearing The Same Dress, as the third and final show of their 43rd season. The play is directed by Gabe Ortego. 

     The plot surrounds five bridesmaids who sequester themselves in a bedroom immediately following the wedding in which they served. Through the course of the afternoon, they drunkenly bare their souls and discover a common bond. Sparks fly between one of the women and a charming bad-boy usher. The show includes adult humor and smoking onstage.

  The cast includes Kaitlin LeBleu, of Basile, as Frances; Bonnie Pitre, of Eunice, as Meredith; Amy Martel Rider, of Eunice, as Trisha; Adrienne Renee Miller, of Eunice, as Georgeanne; Kelly Pitre, of Eunice, as Mindy; and Joshua Carriere, of Eunice, as Tripp.

Performance dates:
November 29 at 6:00 p.m. - Dinner Theatre
November 30 at 7:00 p.m.    December 2 at 2:00 p.m.
December 5 at 7:00 p.m.      December 6 at 7:00 p.m.
December 7 at 7:00 p.m.      December 8 at 7:00 p.m.

 

     Tickets are available by calling David at David Ltd. Hair Salon, 337-546-0163 or Debi at Turning Point, 337-457-2156. Visa and MasterCard may be used for advance purchase. Tickets are $10; dinner is additional $15, plus tip.

The theatre is located at 121 S. Second St. in Eunice.

The Tea-Sippers, a local youth theatre troupe managed by its all-teen membership, will perform The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds at 7:30 p.m. on November 30, December 1, and December 7th and 8th and at Cite des Arts in downtown Lafayette. Tickets are available for $10 in advance at citedesarts.org or at the door.

The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, by Paul Zindel , follows Tillie, a timid girl who is verbally, emotionally, and rarely physically abused by her mother throughout her life. But in a twist of events, Tillie win the science fair, and proves to her mother that she is more than just “half a test tube."  Author Zindel wrote the piece in 1964 and it raises awareness of emotional abuse in the home. The Tea-Sippers are hoping to attract Acadiana teens and their families to publicize the cruelty many children face in their own homes on a daily basis.

      “We go to school every day and see people that we don’t necessarily know, or understand, and think that we can judge them based on what they look and dress like, when in reality we have no idea what they’re going through,” said Kaitlin Romero, 17-year-old Tea-Sippers’ actor and founding company member. “Hopefully this performance can get people to understand that there is always more to a story than is told, and that though you may think you understand someone, you really have no idea what they have gone through,” continued Romero, director and company founding member.
      “We can all relate to things. Yes, we know what it's like to be made fun of or what it feels like to feel unloved or unimportant. "Marigolds" is a story of normal people in the middle of realizing just how hard times can get. We all know a verbally abusive person or someone whose goal is to please others. It's a sad story in some ways, but in the end, it's the story of life," added Vincent, 17 year old director and founding company member.
 
All plays produced by the Tea Sippers are performed, directed, and managed completely by teens. 

The Tea-Sippers, named for their daily rehearsal-opening activity, came together as a group in September 2010 after being cast in a play at Cite des Arts. A few student actors noticed that there was a free spot in July 2011 on the Cite des Arts calendar, and they immediately booked the opening and decided that they would put on a play. Meetings for the project progressed to discussions about becoming a formal theatre troupe, and the group decided that they, as teenagers, could benefit from the responsibility and satisfaction of managing such a troupe. Since then, they have directed, acted in, and produced 9 other plays including Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Happy Birthday Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, and Seventy Scenes of Halloween, all without the direction and constant aid of adults.
For more information on the performances or The Tea-Sippers, contact Cite des Arts at (337) 291-1122.

Celles d’en Haut /The Women From On High

By playwright Olivier Kemeid (Québec) Directed by Olivier Coyette (Belgium)

The piece will be performed entirely in French and then entirely in English with a wine and nibble "pause" between the two versions.  Come for one or both.  Each version lasts 75 minutes.

WITH:  Barbara Robertson, of Chicago theater and film acclaim, Park Krausen and Carolyn Cook from Le Théatre du Rêve in Atlanta, and Kevin McCoy, director of Théâtre Humain and collaborator of Robert Lepage’s Ex-Machina company in Quebec.

Set in an "establishment" and inspired by a Cindy Sherman photograph, this original work by Olivier Kemeid is crazy,colorful shrewd and full of humor. It questions human choices, examines the theme of sickness, the power of medicine and our quickness to submit blindly to it. Within all this and within the walls of the establishment lies the “possibility of an island,” medical or not: beneficial and restorative, set apart from the deafening din of the world. A deep bond develops.

The work of Québec director Olivier Kemeid has been performed at the Festival d’Avignon, the Red Bull Theater in NYC as well as in Québec, Belgium, Germany and Hungary. Olivier Kemeid was also the artistic director of Théâtre Espace Libre in Montreal from 2006 to 2010.

Théâtre du Rêve is the only professional French-language theatre company in the United States, and is dedicated to the performance of high-quality theatre from across the Francophone world right here on the American stage.

The play will be read by professional actors at Cité des Arts, on December 10th in French and English 7:00pm, suggested Donation is $10.00

Wanderlust Theatre Company continues its 2012-13 season with the original piece, We All Do by Lafayette native Jarin Schexnider! In this provocative work, a loner named Charlie befriends the world around her, exploring the similarities in struggle and happiness that bind humans and nature. Presented in a highly physical, movement based style, this environmental theatre production calls upon an ensemble of actors to play dozens of characters. Wanderlust is excited to be partnering with Feed & Seed Community Art House to present the first theatre production at this kinetic, unwrought venue.

The ensemble cast is comprised of Erin Broussard, Aren Chaisson III, Steven Cooper, Jan Erin Corzo, Andrew D. Hunter II, M. Brady McKellar, Deserea Noriega, Jarin Schexnider and Patricia Drury Sidman. Elsa Dimitriadis directs.

NOTE: In keeping with themes from the work, a special $1 off the ticket price promotion will be offered to anyone bicycling to a performance. Discount only applies to tickets purchased in person at the box office.

Wednesday, Dec. 12 through Saturday, Dec. 15 at 7:30 pm
& Sunday, December 16 at 3:00 pm
At the Feed & Seed Community Art House
106 N. Grant Street, Downtown Lafayette

$10 Admission
For ticket reservations, call (337) 504-5367 or purchase online at
wealldo.eventbrite.com
For additional information about the company, visit
www.wanderlusttheatre.com or facebook.com/wanderlusttheatre

Auditions!

Auditions for Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo will be held at Theatre 810 on Friday, November 30 at 7pm and Saturday, December 1 at 3pm.

  We are casting ONE FEMALE LEAD to play the role of Ann, a strong and loving woman who is unhappy with her status-quo marriage and is ready to poke and prod it a little to find out what's underneath.

Actors interested should be 27-40 and should come prepared with a one-minute contemporary monologue.  We will also ask for a short cold-read from the script (we will provide.)  The production will be directed by Cooper Helm, and will show the last weekend of January and the first weekend of February with a preview on January 25th.

Thank you to all who share this and are interested.  If you have any questions about the auditions or the play, please feel free to contact me.

Scott Gremillion
sufficious@yahoo.com
337-706-2177


   Acting Unlimited will be holding auditions for John Biguenet's Shotgun, which will be performed in collaboration with the Swine Palace of Baton Rouge, and Southern Rep. of New Orleans as part of The Katrina Cycle.  The auditions will take place at Theatre 810 (810 Jefferson Street in Lafayette) on Saturday, December 15 (1-3pm) and Sunday, December 17 (6:30-8:30pm.)

     We are looking for actors for the following roles:

 Beau Harlan, a white carpenter in his mid-thirties

 Eugene Harlan, Beau's sixteen-year-old son

 Mattie Godchaux, a black woman in her thirties   

 Dexter (Dex) Godchaux, Mattie's father, in his early sixties

 Clarence (Willie) Williams, Mattie's black ex-boyfriend, about Mattie's age

     If you need more information, or have any questions about the play or the production, please feel free to email us at actingunlimited@gmail.com.  If you would like to audition, but cannot make these dates,  please feel free to contact us before the audition dates to arrange an alternative time.