Casting Call for "Top Girls" Seeks Teenagers
Teen actors sought for the production of "Top Girls". See more info below. About the project: Synopsis: Top Girls depicts the lifestyle and life choices of its central character, Marlene. She is a successful career woman, who has just received a major promotion and has unequivocally fought her way to the top. Famously using iconic female, historical figures, the play explores the realities of being female and the potential price of achieving success. The play is nonlinear in its structure, highlighting the different sides of being a thriving career woman in the 1980s. In the opening act, Marlene hosts a dinner party for several famous, female figures from history and literature, including the Victorian British explorer Isabella Bird, Pope Joan, and Patient Griselda from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The unlikely group discuss their own histories and reflect on what being a female meant for them in their own time. As the play moves on to focus on high-flying Marlene, it becomes clear that her professional success has irreparably damaged her personal life. Her relationship with her sister, Joyce, is strained and distant, while Joyce’s daughter, Angie, does not realize that Marlene is actually her mother. Leaping back and forth in time, Marlene attempts to make sense of her life and come to terms with the mistakes she has made in the past. Additional info: Callbacks on December 18, 7-9 PM Rehearsals: The schedule will be created around cast conflicts. Please bring a list of your availability to auditions. Performances: February 28 – March 16, 2025 If you are interested, please apply.
2 roles
Joyce’s sixteen-year-old adoptive daughter Angie is odd, quiet, and stunted. She is a lonely girl, whose only friend, Kit, is four years younger than her. Angie expresses a keen desire to kill her mother—but also admits to Kit that she knows that her true mother is Joyce’s sister, Marlene. Angie dresses in clothes that are too small for her—notably, a fancy dress Marlene gave to Angie on a previous visit—and speaks in simple, clipped, occasionally disjointed sentences.
Kit is a twelve-year-old girl who is a friend and neighbor of Angie’s. Though Kit is young, she is cruel and aggressive, and spars verbally and physically with Angie. Kit seems to feel coerced into her friendship with Angie, and tells Angie to her face that she is odd for wanting to hang out with someone four years her junior, and a bad influence to boot. Nevertheless, Kit seems to be very much in Angie’s thrall, and when Joyce attempts to speak ill of Angie to Kit.
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