Fall Production Announcement!

We are happy to announce the first production of the Fall 2024-2025 Season:

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

directed by Casey Seymour Kim

Blithe Spirit? What's That?

Blithe Spirit is a comedy-of-manners -- a style of comedy that is designed to lampoon the behavior, actions, fashions, priorities of the social classes (usually the upper class). It relies on witty language, ironic tone, and ridiculous circumstances. Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde are the playwrights most commonly associated with this genre (although American examples of this genre include the movies My Man Godfrey, The Graduate, and many Woody Allen films). 

RIC has not done a comedy-of-manners in almost a decade!

And Bonus: Blithe Spirit has ghosts!

Wait -- ghosts? What's this play about?

Blithe Spirit concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a seance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his willful and temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the seance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles' marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.

Anyhow. There are 7 characters: 5 female-identified, 2 male-identified. If you want more information, you can check out the Wiki Page here. 

What about Auditions? 

Over the weekend I (Casey) will post character descriptions and monologues for auditioners to present at auditions on April 28.  Auditioners may choose to present 1-2 pieces.

I do not expect the monologues to be memorized, but do try to be very familiar with them so that you can make acting choices/look up from the page. Do NOT read these monologues off your phone at the audition. 

(I will have printed out monologues available upstairs in the MTD main office, as well as at the audition itself.)

and Performance Dates?

We do not yet have official performance dates for this production. Rehearsals for the Fall show usually begin the week before classes start, and the production runs around the first weekend in October.

More soon--now go see Cry-Baby!