Theatre--Auditions

The Abbey Players are pleased to announce auditions for their upcoming Spring production,Picasso at the Lapin Agile, by Steve Martin.

The Abbey Players strive for quality theatre by producing 3-4 well-rehearsed mainstage productions a year, with a children's production during the summer. It is a formula for success that has lasted over 30 years. Hosted productions from outside theatre companies are often added in between. Abbey Players mainstage productions typically run 4 or more weekends, giving the surrounding community an ample number of shows to attend.

The situation is this: on a night in 1904, Albert Einstein, 25 years old, wanders into the Lapin Agile, a small, rather dingy Paris bar hospitable to painters, writers and other eccentrics who are giving direction to the new century's avant-garde. Einstein is waiting for a woman friend, but in the course of the evening he also meets the future in the person of Pablo Picasso, 23.

Having already perceived the future in himself, Einstein is far more fascinated by the arrogant young Picasso than the painter is by him. At least at first. Einstein, after all, is a drone in a patent office by day; he's still a year away from the publication of his seminal work, "The Special Theory of Relativity." He's a nobody. And as a physicist, he's of a different species.

Picasso is already something of a celebrity, though not one with a talent for self-promotion to match that of Charles Dabernow Schmendimen, who also drops into the bar.

The piece, played without intermission, succeeds in being low-comedy funny while also suggesting that a great scientist and a great artist share a rarefied sense of beauty; they're both governed by esthetic laws that, though not easily proved, are innate in minds of genius.

The show will run mid-May thru June, 2008 and will be directed by Jerrod Arabie and assistant-directed by Pamela Broussard.

Open auditions will be held at the Abbey Players Theatre, 200 South State Street, Abbeville, LA. on the followng dates and times:
Sat. March 15, 1pm -3pm.
Sun. March 16, 1pm -3pm.
Mon. march 17, 7pm -9pm.
Sat. March 22, 1pm -3pm.
Sun. March 23, 1pm -3pm.

Various roles for men ages 18 - 60. Roles for women ages 18 - 40.

Volunteers for various other aspects of the show, besides acting, are needed as well! Any and all experience levels are encouraged to attend. If you've ever wanted to assist in any manner, or be involved with the Abbey Players or the arts in general, now is the time!