Norman and Ethel Thayer have recently returned to spend their forty-eighth summer at their vacation home on Golden Pond in Maine. Norman is doing his best to see that the phone is in working order, while Ethel, who has been gathering firewood, is excited at having met some of the neighbors. Norman, whose memory isn’t what it once was, is about to turn eighty and seems preoccupied, albeit humorously, with the prospect of dying.
A giant pecan stolen, a minister on the make, aliens, a prom queen on the verge of a breakdown, Texas beauty parlor gossip, and a shotgun wedding — just your average day in 1980s Seguin, Texas — otherwise known as, The Home of the Great Pecan!
Provocative and brave, an American play on climate change.
-NY Times
Extreme Whether (“brave and pioneering”, “laced with darkness and humor” Andrew Revkin, NYTimes) had a sold-out premiere at Theater for the New City in October. Each performance was followed by a talk back (Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Jennifer Francis, Dr. Dale Jamieson, Dr. Ana Baptista and many others). Andy Revkin described the play as about the American family in our current debate. Jim Hansen said “the love of nature” the play evokes is its most important part and the “documentaries are boring, but this play really moves people.” Jennifer Francis says “it is just a most impressive play. It was wonderful as a reading. It is even more wonderful now.”
Performances: April 7 through April 23
Director: James Reed
Audition Location: The Historic Mars Theater, 117 N. Chattanooga St. LaFayette, GA.
“A Few Good Men” details the courtroom drama of two Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tense legal tribulations that follow. A callow young Navy lawyer serves as the focus of the story. He is more interested in softball cases and expects a plea bargain. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial.
Open auditions for David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Rabbit Hole.”
Roles are available for 3 women, 1 man, and 1 teenage male.
Play synopsis: “Rabbit Hole”
David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a couple’s struggle to deal with the loss of their young son. Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. “Rabbit Hole” charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
Performance dates are April 20-22 and 27-29
*Character descriptions:
BECCA (30s-40s) — A grieving mother. Tough and uncompromising, she cannot tolerate insincerity or impracticality. Trying desperately to pick up the pieces of her shattered world
HOWIE (30s-40s) — Becca’s husband. A patient man who specializes in pretending everything is fine. More welcoming of moving forward than Becca is. Seeks normalcy again even if it’s an illusion.
IZZY (20s-30s) — Becca’s younger sister. Wild child of the family. A perennial party girl who never grew up. Still trying to find herself.
NAT (60s) — Becca and Izzy’s mother. Blunt, sarcastic. An opinionated alcoholic with a knack for sticking her foot in her mouth.
JASON (17) — Shy, awkward, nerdy. Boy who accidentally killed Becca and Howie’s son when the little boy ran in front of his car.
*Actors shouldn’t be discouraged by the ages specified. All our decisions are based on ability and what age you might be able to pull off. It doesn’t necessarily have to be exact.
Actors only need to attend one night of auditions. Call backs will only be had if deemed necessary by the director. Auditions will consist of cold reads from the script.
An online pdf version of the play can be accessed at: http://
Performances: April 7 through April 23
Director: James Reed
Audition Location: The Historic Mars Theater, 117 N. Chattanooga St. LaFayette, GA.
“A Few Good Men” details the courtroom drama of two Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tense legal tribulations that follow. A callow young Navy lawyer serves as the focus of the story. He is more interested in softball cases and expects a plea bargain. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial.
Open auditions for David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Rabbit Hole.”
Roles are available for 3 women, 1 man, and 1 teenage male.
Play synopsis: “Rabbit Hole”
David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a couple’s struggle to deal with the loss of their young son. Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. “Rabbit Hole” charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
Performance dates are April 20-22 and 27-29
*Character descriptions:
BECCA (30s-40s) — A grieving mother. Tough and uncompromising, she cannot tolerate insincerity or impracticality. Trying desperately to pick up the pieces of her shattered world
HOWIE (30s-40s) — Becca’s husband. A patient man who specializes in pretending everything is fine. More welcoming of moving forward than Becca is. Seeks normalcy again even if it’s an illusion.
IZZY (20s-30s) — Becca’s younger sister. Wild child of the family. A perennial party girl who never grew up. Still trying to find herself.
NAT (60s) — Becca and Izzy’s mother. Blunt, sarcastic. An opinionated alcoholic with a knack for sticking her foot in her mouth.
JASON (17) — Shy, awkward, nerdy. Boy who accidentally killed Becca and Howie’s son when the little boy ran in front of his car.
*Actors shouldn’t be discouraged by the ages specified. All our decisions are based on ability and what age you might be able to pull off. It doesn’t necessarily have to be exact.
Actors only need to attend one night of auditions. Call backs will only be had if deemed necessary by the director. Auditions will consist of cold reads from the script.
An online pdf version of the play can be accessed at: http://
The day in Tuna, the third smallest town in Texas, begins—as usual—with Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie at the microphones of Radio OKKK, broadcasting at a big 275 watts (at least when they remember to turn the transmitter on). Topping the headlines is the winning entry in the American Heritage Essay Contest, entitled “Human Rights, Why Bother?” Then, Arles exits, and in comes Didi Snavely of Didi’s Used Guns; she leaves and gives way to weatherman Harold Dean Lattimer: “We have this swarm of locusts that are headin’ our way from Louisiana, but we figure the dust will kill a lot of ’em, and the rest’ll probably get blown away or drown in this tropical storm that’s headin’ our way from the coast.”And the comedy continues, from Petey Fisk of the Humane Society talking about the duck problem and Yippy, the Pet of the Week to Phineas Blye, perpetual losing candidate for city council announcing he’s running again and revealing his plan to tax prisoners: “It would be easy, ’cause everyone knows where they are.” Of course, a day isn’t complete without the high school football report from Coach Raymond Chassie, who explains why his football team lost 48-0: “We lost mainly because we couldn’t score.”
And so the day continues, as Tuna’s citizens parade across the stage in all their outrageous and irreverent glory, commenting on life, politics, and what makes them (and sometimes us) tick.
Come see Ocoee Theatre Guild’s first ever DEBUT!
i < 3 u is a half-improvised musical comedy about online dating.
Our hapless hero will “meet” three audience members and try to woo them into an onstage “date”. The audience will act as his wingman providing dating tips and strategies.
Don’t miss this unique experience!
Tickets are on sale at OcoeeTheatreGuild.com
Featuring Beth McClary as Florence Foster Jenkins and Jerry M. Draper as Cosme McMoon.
For more than half a century the name Florence Foster Jenkins has been guaranteed to produce explosions of derisive laughter. Not unreasonably so, as this wealthy society eccentric suffered under the delusion that she was a great coloratura soprano when she was in fact incapable of producing two consecutive notes in tune. Nevertheless, her annual recitals in the ballroom of the Ritz Carlton hotel, where she resided, brought her extraordinary fame. As news of her terrible singing spread, so did her celebrity. Her growing mob of fans packed her recitals, stuffing handkerchiefs in their mouths to stifle their laughter—which Mrs. Jenkins blissfully mistook for cheers. The climax of her career was a single concert at Carnegie Hall in 1944. Famously, it sold out in two hours.