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PPP's Main Stage 2015 Season...
Georgetown, Delaware
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to Sussex County Since 1973
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Possum Point Players strives to contribute to the cultural diversity and vitality of Sussex County, Delaware
by bringing the experience of live theater for education and enjoyment to residents and visitors alike.
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PPP's Ad Hoc Touring Company is On the Road...
PPP's Ad Hoc Touring Company will be doing a play reading at the Dickens Parlour Theatre in Millville, DE (Map It!) on Wednesday FEB 25 beginning at 7:00p. Ad Hoc will present a comedy-mystery called Love, Honor and Murder by Roger Ritter, and a 1940's Bickersons' radio presentation entitled The Honeymoon is Over. Tickets are $10.00 and can be purchased from the Parlour Theatre by calling 302-829-1071.
Ad Hoc recreates Old Time Radio and is always looking for people interested in that medium. Click here for more about Ad Hoc Touring Co.
A Very Special PPP Fundraiser Event...
PPP presents An Evening With
Bryan Clark
"The Legendary Nights of Las Vegas"
The Quintessential Entertainer...An Heir to the Classic Performers...A Dynamic Contemporary Performer
Saturday, MARCH 7, 2015
7:00p at Possum Hall
All Seats Reserved: $40 per ticket
*** Lite Fare and Soft Drinks Included ***
Online Tickets Here >>>
DIRECTING FOR PPP
Are you interested in directing a show? PPP encourages both experienced directors and PPP newcomers to apply.
Click on one of our application forms at the right, fill it out, and send it in! Info below, applications at right>>
Mail completed form to: Possum Point Players
PO Box 96 / Georgetown, DE 19947
Questions about directing for PPP? Email
Jim Hartzell at jlhart8@mchsi.com
DIRECTORS WANTED FOR OUR 2016 SEASON!
Harvey, Moon over the Brewery, A Raisin in the Sun
Into the Woods, Miracle on 34th Street.
Time frames and show info here.
Directors Wanted for 2016 Season...
PPP presents a real romantic comedy...
Almost, Maine
written by John Cariani
directed by Linda Killion
Fridays APR 17 & APR 24 at 7:30p
Saturdays APR 18 & APR 25 at 7:30p
Sundays APR 19 & APR 26 at 2:00p
Possum Point Players announces
Auditions for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
March 8 - 9 - 10, 2015
The Possum Point Players invite actors and actresses of all ages, types, and ethnicities, to audition for Christopher Sergel’s revised stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, directed by John H. Hulse, of Rehoboth Beach, DE.
Auditions on Sunday, March 8, 2015, at 5 PM, are for Youth Only who look ages 8 – 13. Youth will be asked to tell a story and may be asked to read from the script.
Auditions on Monday, March 9 and Tuesday, March 10, 2015, at 7 PM, are for Adults Only who look ages 19 - 75+. Adults will be asked to present a monologue about one minute in length and may be asked to read from the script.
Callbacks are by invitation only on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, at 7 PM.
Auditions will take place at Possum Hall; 441 Old Laurel Rd; Georgetown, Delaware.
THE STORY:
The place is Maycomb, Alabama in the Great Depression year of the 1935. Momentous events unfold through the eyes of 8 year old Scout Finch, growing up in a close knit neighborhood with her older, 12 year old brother, Jem, and their 9 year old summertime visitor, Dill. When their 50 year old father, Atticus Finch, a well-respected lawyer, mounts a vigorous and compelling case for the defense of 25 year old Tom Robinson, a poor black man accused of an attack on a 19 year old white girl, an idyllic world of childhood is changed forever. Through the drama of the trial and its aftermath comes a searching examination of freedom, justice, honesty, and hypocrisy. This is a compelling, deeply moving story told with warmth and humor. (Warning: There are strong and disturbing language and situations. The language is indicative of time and place (racial slurs of the worst kind). The characters in the play are true to their upbringing and of the social norms of Alabama in 1935.)
CASTING REQUIREMENTS: Male and Female Adult and Youth actors, portraying characters ranging in ages from 8 to 75+. African-American actors are especially encouraged to attend. Specific character descriptions can be found online at www.PossumPointPlayers.com . Show dates are June 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, and 21, 2015. The cast must be available for all show dates.
Those needing more information or unable to attend the audition, but interested in auditioning
or being part of the production crew, should contact director John H. Hulse at 302-245-4147.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:
(Youth 8-9) JEAN LOUISE (SCOUT) FINCH: A young girl about to experience the events that will shape the rest of her life. She is courageous and forthright. If a question occurs to her, she’ll ask it.
(Youth 12-13) JEREMY ATTICUS (JEM) FINCH: He is four years older than his sister Scout, and like his sister, perhaps even more than his sister, he’s reaching out to understand their unusual and thus not conventionally-admirable father. Probably the strongest undercurrent in Jem is his desire to communicate with his father.
(Youth 9-10) CHARLES BAKER (DILL) HARRIS: Small, blond, and wise beyond his years, he is a year older than Scout, but not as tall. Dill is neater and better dressed than his friends. There’s an undercurrent of sophistication to him, but his laugh is sudden and happy. Obviously there is a lack in his own home life, and he senses something in Atticus that is missing from his own family relationship.
(early 50s) ATTICUS FINCH: He’s tall, quietly impressive, reserved, civilized and fifty. He wears glasses and because of the poor sight in his left eye, looks with his right eye when he wants to see something well. It’s typical of Atticus that when he found out he was an extraordinary shot with a rifle, he gave up shooting – because he considered it gave him an unfair advantage over the animals. He’s quietly courageous and without heroics, he does what he considers just. Someone comments about him: "We trust him to do right."
(40s) WALTER CUNNINGHAM, SR.: He is a hard-up farmer who shares the prejudices of this time and place but who is a man who can be reached as a human being. He also has seeds of leadership, for when his attitude is changed during the confrontation with Atticus, he takes the others with him.
(40-50s) REVEREND SYKES: He is the black minister of the First Purchase Church, called that because it was paid for with the first money earned by the freed slaves. He is an imposing man with a strong stage presence. He should have a strong “minister’s” voice.
(40-50s) HECK TATE: He is the town sheriff and a complex man. He does his duty as he sees it, and enforces the law without favor. The key to this man's actual feelings is revealed in his final speeches to Atticus, and this attitude should be an undercurrent to his earlier actions.
(40s) NATHAN RADLEY: He is a thin, leathery man with sharp cheekbones, thin upper lip, full lower lip, and ramrod straight posture.
(Late 30s) ARTHUR (BOO) RADLEY: Arthur Radley is a pale recluse who has not been outside of his house in fifteen years. It takes an extraordinary emergency to bring him out, and once out, he is uncertain about how to deal with people, and with his mission accomplished, he is eager to return to his sanctuary.
(20s) TOM ROBINSON: He is black, handsome, and vital, but with a left hand crippled by a childhood accident. He is married to Helen and they have young children. He faces up to a false charge with quiet dignity. There is an undercurrent in him of kindness, sensitivity, and consideration.
(40-60s) JUDGE TAYLOR: He is a wintry man of the South, who does what he can within the context of his time to see justice done in his court. While he tries to run his court impartially, his sympathy is with Tom and Atticus.
(40-60s) MR. HORACE GILMER: He is a public prosecutor who is doing his job in trying to convict Tom. In many ways, his manner is cruel and hurtful. And yet under all this, he too has unexpressed doubts as to Tom’s guilt, and his heart isn’t really in this conviction. Still, he goes after it, and it is a hard thing.
(40-50s) ROBERT E. LEE (BOB) EWELL: He is a little bantom-cock of a man who lives with his large family by the town dump. As Harper Lee describes their situation: "The town gave them Christmas baskets, welfare money, and the back of their hand." Bob thinks this trial will make him an important man, and when Atticus destroys his credibility, Bob’s rage and frustration border on paranoia.
(40s) MISS MAUDE (MAUDIE) ATKINSON: Younger than Atticus, but of his generation, she is a lovely sensitive woman. Though belonging to the time and place of the play, she has a wisdom and compassion that suggests the best instincts of the South of that period. She makes the best cakes in the neighborhood and befriends the three youngsters, especially Scout.
(40s) MISS STEPHANIE CRAWFORD: She is a neighborhood gossip, and she enjoys it to the hilt. There is an enthusiasm in her talking over the people of her town that makes it almost humorous. Sometimes she says things that are petty, but partly it’s because she simply cannot keep herself from stirring things up.
(60-70s) MRS. HENRY LAFAYETTE DUBOSE: She is an old woman: ill, walking with difficulty, her pain making her biting, bitter, and angry. However, she is fighting a secret battle within herself, a battle about which few people are aware, and her existence has in it a point of importance for Jem and Scout.
(20s) HELEN ROBINSON: She is half numb with the shock of the false charge against her husband, Tom. She is a young, black woman caught in a nightmare.
(19-20) MAYELLA VIOLET EWELL: The oldest daughter of Bob Ewell, she is a desperately lonely and overworked woman whose need for companionship – any companionship – has overwhelmed every other emotion. However, when her effort to reach out explodes in her face, she fights just as desperately for what she thinks is survival.
(30-40s) CALPURNIA: Black, proud, and capable, she has raised the motherless Scout and Jem. She is a self-educated woman and she has made quite a good job out of it. Her standards are high and her discipline as applied to Scout and Jem is uncompromising. She is all angles and bones, nearsighted, squints, and her hands are "as wide as a bed slat and twice as hard."
(40-60s) COURT CLERK
(40-60s) LINK DEAS: Tom’s employer who believes in his innocence
(8-9) WALTER CUNNINGHAM, JR.: classmate of Scout
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Main Stage Auditions Announced...
--AUDITIONS--
for PPP's production of Harper Lee's
To Kill a Mockingbird
directed by John Hulse
MAR 8 - 9 - 10
(show dates JUN 12-13-14, 19-20-21
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