Casting Teen Performers for Play "It Can't Happen Here"
Kimberly High School students are invited to audition for the fall play "It Can't Happen Here". Please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. About the project: It Can’t Happen Here is based on the semi-satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis (1935) and the play by Lewis and John C. Moffitt (1936). This piece, written as Germany’s power was rising in the early 1930s, imagines similar circumstances as a liberal rebellion struggles against a newly elected totalitarian government in the United States. This play was performed simultaneously across America in 1936 through the support of the Federal Theater Project, part of the Works Progress Administration. KHS Theatre will be presenting an abridged version of the original play adapted by Minneapolis playwright Kit Bix. Additional info: You will prepare a monologue from the show to perform at auditions. Choose one of the attached monologues from the show. Your monologue must be memorized, rehearsed, and performed with intent! Make sure you know it well and are able to answer questions about your acting choices. You may also be asked to read from the script. Performance dates are October 23-25 Please download the attachment for more information and forms. If interested, please apply.
19 roles
Corporative Party Candidate for President of US. A stalky, energetic man; a perky businessman of vitality and brass. He is dressed flashily. His voice is deep and resonant as an organ note, even when he is being chiefly patriotic.
Editor and owner of a small-town paper, the Beulah Daily Informer. Kind, shrewd, competent. A widower. Wears old tweeds.
Around the same age as Doremus. Something of a reformer, dry humor. She is also in tweeds, carrying a smaller basket. She is “Society and Women’s Editor” of the Informer.
Younger boy - keen, sensitive
Brisk, competent and attractive surgeon.
Fowler’s wife - effervescent but efficient. 30 yrs old.
Pompous textile manufacturer- the richest person town. Smug Troy. Elaborately dressed.
Old farmer.
70S ISH –FRAIL
Insignificant, kindly shop-owner. Frank Capra “I’m just a regular guy but it just seems to me....” type.
Jessups’ hired hand. Lumpish and surly. He combines rustic shyness with urban trickery.
A young neighborhood boy who joins Corpos but later joins Doremus’ underground
A slim, athletic man, very suave and literate looking. A high-ranking officer of the Corpos. Very competent, with an cynical, amused manner, cruel as a hawk.
Sanctimonious, sneaky, deeply hungry for publicity and power. In gray clerical cloth.
Buzz’s man of all dirty work, efficient secretary, court jester, and mentor. “ A man who views the death of their enemies with cold equanimity.
Runs the printing press of the paper (In original “a huge, black visaged man”) Wears an “inky apron.”
Undercover agent for the People’s Party, disguised as insurance salesman.
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