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Casting Call


THE PLAY

Sex

Oct 11-26, 2019

Sex is an infamous play written by and starring the budding starlet Mae West in the 1920s. Proudly feminist in its subtext, the play enjoyed a successful run on Broadway until it was deemed by a grand jury to be such “obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure drama” that it might corrupt “the morals of youth.” West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity, and traveled there in style – garlanded in roses, wearing silk underwear, and riding in a limousine.

By Mae West, music by Cole Porter, adapted and directed by Edward Jordon.

AUDITION GUIDELINES

Please bring a physical copy of your head shot and resume.

If auditioning for Sex, please prepare a maximum of 32 bars (in lead sheet form) and one monologue.

Lead sheets will be available during the auditions for actors singing “Let's Misbehave,” “I’m in the Mood for Love,” “Isn’t It Romantic,” “Our Love is Here to Stay,” or “S’wonderful.”

If you auditioning for the non-musical plays, prepare two contrasting monologues no longer than five minutes (total).

Earlier Event: August 7
Season Auditions
Later Event: August 11
Short Story Smash - New and Improved!

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.