Fancy Pants Theater!

AUDITIONS for ELEEMOSYNARY by LEE BLESSING

Directed by Robert L. Smith

Playing May 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 & 13

Rehearsing April 1- May 3 (4-5 evenings per week)

Openauditions will be held Monday and Tuesday, March 26th and 27th.

Seeking three actresses to play the following roles:

Echo ( age 14-18). Artemis (age 35-45). Dorothea (age55-65)

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Eleemosynaryprobes into the delicate relationship of three singular women: thegrandmother, Dorothea, who has sought to assert her independencethrough strong-willed eccentricity; her brilliant daughter, Artie(Artemis), who has fled the stifling domination of her mother; andArtie's daughter, Echo, a child of exceptional intellect—and sensitivity—whom Artie has abandoned to an upbringing by Dorothea.  As the play begins, Dorothea has suffered a stroke, and while Echohas reestablished contact with her mother, it is only through extended telephone conversations, during which real issues are skirted and their talk is mostly about the precocious Echo's single-minded domination of a national spelling contest. But, in the end, after Dorothea's death, both Artie and Echo come to accept their mutual need and summon the courage to try, at last, to build a life together—despite the risks and terrors that this holds for both of them after so many years of alienation and estrangement.