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MATC PERFORMING
ARTS
HOLDS AUDITIONS FOR SHADOW BOX
Madison Area Technical
College Performing Arts is holding auditions for its first production
of the 2004-2005 season, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Shadow Box.
Open auditions will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 7, and Wednesday,
September 8, in the Studio Theater, room 206, MATC Truax, 3550 Anderson
Street. Roles are available for nine to 10 individuals including four
men (one adolescent) and four women (one elderly) to play family members.
Shadow Box,
written by Michael Cristofer, draws three distinct family stories into
a universal tale of mortality. Set in a west coast hospice, the stories
are introduced individually, but as the two-act play unfolds, the stories
begin to merge and eventually blend into a chorus that captures the range
of thought and emotion for all who struggle with dying. Three families
take up residence in private cottages to pass the “last days”
with a loved one. The first family introduced is a conventional working-class
family. The second family is comprised of a gay couple and the ex-wife
of the terminal patient. A mother-daughter relationship is found in the
third cottage. Each of the families struggles with different levels of
loss, and all aspects of grief are given voice during the course of the
play.
Cristofer won
both a Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama and a Tony Award for Best Play for
Shadow Box in 1977. The MATC production will be directed by Michael
Lussenden, the college's new communication arts instructor. Lussenden
comes to MATC with 20 years of directing and producing experience.
To prepare for the audition: Read the play. One copy is available at the
MATC Truax Library on closed reserve and some copies are available for
check out through the MATC Box Office beginning August 16. Auditioners
should prepare a brief (one minute) monologue or prose piece. Bring your
personal schedule to the auditions to check against the rehearsal and
performance schedule-availability will play a role in casting. Auditions
are open to all MATC students, staff and community members.
Call back auditions
will be by invitation only on Thursday, September 9. Dates and times for
rehearsals are tentatively scheduled for Mondays through Thursdays from
6:30 to 10 p.m. starting September 13. Friday and possibly Saturday afternoon
rehearsals will be scheduled as the production nears its performance dates.
Performances will be Friday and Saturday evenings from October 29 though
November 13.
More detailed
information on the production or the audition process is available by
contacting Michael Lussenden at (608) 246-6479.
MATC is one of
the largest of the Wisconsin Technical College System's 16 colleges and
serves approximately 50,000 individuals annually. MATC provides a comprehensive
curriculum of technical, liberal arts and science, adult basic education
and life enrichment studies and activities, as well as customized employee
training. With training in more than 100 career programs, the college
awards associate degrees, vocational diplomas and certificates, and offers
non-degree courses. MATC serves all or parts of 12 counties located in
south-central Wisconsin and offers instruction through five campuses and
other locations throughout the district.
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August 12, 2004
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