Casting Teen Girl for "Poor Clare" Show

Auditions are open for a teenage girl to join the cast of "Poor Clare." Explore the details below. About the project: It’s 1211 in Assisi, Italy, and Clare has beauty, wealth, status and a rich suitor. Then she meets Francis, who has given up his possessions because poor people are suffering. This hilarious, anachronistic retelling of the real story of St. Clare asks what it costs to do good, and why the divide between the haves and have-nots still feels familiar nearly a thousand years later. Poor Clare won the 2022 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. “Poor Clare is a terrific way to kick off The Feminine Gaze,” said Jessi May Stevenson, SPTC’s Artistic Director. “Chiara Atik takes a thirteenth-century story and gives it a wonderfully irreverent, modern voice. It’s genuinely funny, but underneath the humor is a question that’s not so easy to laugh off: What do we owe the people who have less? I’m drawn to plays that make us laugh, challenge our assumptions, and leave us with something to wrestle with long after we leave the theater. Director Rosie Gordon has the comic instincts to nail the humor and the depth to get at what makes this story matter. Additional info: Callbacks, if needed, will be held on Tuesday, November 17. Please see the attachment for details. If you are interested, please apply.