AUDITION CALL
EASTERN STANDARD
By Richard Greenberg
Directed by J. Daniel Herring
AUDITION DATES & TIMES:
Cattle Call Auditions
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
6:00-9:00 p.m.
John Wright Theatre
All actors should prepare a monologue no more than 2 minutes in length
Actors who do not have a prepared monologue will be given material to cold read
First Callback
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Woods Theatre
Second Callback
Thursday, August 26, 2010
4:00-6:30 p.m.
Woods Theatre
At callback auditions, actors will be asked to read scenes from the script
REHEARSAL DATES & TIMES:
Sunday, September 19 through Thursday, October 21, 2010
Rehearsals will be Sunday through Thursday evenings 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Tech Rehearsals
Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:00 Noon-10:00 p.m.
Monday, October 25 – Thursday, October 28, 2010 Times TBA (usually 6:00-10:00p.m., but
depending on the needs of the show, director or designers these rehearsal times may vary)
PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMES:
October 29, 30, and November 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6, 2010 at 8:00pm
October 31, 2010 at 2:00pm
ABOUT THE PLAY and CHARACTERS (3 men & 3 women):
In the first act, very successful but disenchanted architect Stephen Wheeler is lunching with his best
friend from their days at Dartmouth University, rising avant-garde gay artist Drew Paley, in a trendy
restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Seated at the adjoining table are Wall Street
investment counselor Phoebe Kidde and her television producer brother Peter Kidde, who has just
revealed he has AIDS to her. When boisterous homeless woman May Logan enters the restaurant
and creates a scene, the four diners and their frazzled waitress Ellen find themselves thrown
together, and they eventually strike up an unlikely alliance.
In the second act, six months have elapsed, and the sextet is spending the weekend at Stephen's
summer house in The Hamptons. Stephen and Phoebe find they share a mutual attraction, while
Peter, unprepared to discuss his recent diagnosis, is trying to discourage Drew's amorous advances.
Representing the lower class are Ellen and May, whose presence forces everyone to reexamine their
lives and reevaluate their priorities.
A critical and popular success at New York's famed Manhattan Theatre Club; this celebrated play
went on to become a Broadway hit as well. Hailed as an uniquely perceptive and devastatingly witty
play for our times, it traces the experiences of a group of young, rich and somewhat jaded New York
"Yuppies" as they move from disenchantment to hopeful anticipation and on, finally, to a resigned
acceptance of the limits of what modern life can offer. "For anyone who has been waiting for a play
that tells what it is like to be more or less middle-class, more or less young and more or less wellintentioned in a frightening city at this moment in this time zone, EASTERN STANDARD at long last
is it." —NY Times. "With a truly original voice, a deft hand with character and a gift for juxtaposing
unexpected elements with amusing and dramatically purposeful results, Greenberg's EASTERN
STANDARD is a romantic comedy for our times." —Drama-Logue. "…it speaks to us eloquently, and
with humor, about today." —BackStage.
PERUSAL SCRIPTS:
CAN BE CHECKED OUT OF THE THEATRE ARTS DEPARTMENT OFFICE
SPEECH ARTS 33
CONTACT J. DANIEL HERRING IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS
Email: jdherring@csufresno.edu Office Phone: 559-278-2578