presents
OPEN AUDITIONS
Auditions and performances at Beatniks On Conkey
Last of the Boys
by Stephan Dietz
Directed by Don Taylor
Auditions will be held at Beatniks On Conkey, 418 Conkey Street,
Hammond, IN.
Production Dates: August 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 & 25, 2012
Friday and Saturdays, 8PM.
Sunday matinees, 2PM
On a road outside Dak To in 1967, the lives of two soldiers were
changed forever. Thirty years later, in a remote trailer park in
California, these two soldiers come together for one last hurrah. As
the night deepens, the past makes a return appearance, and its many
ghosts come flickering to life. Still haunted by the specter of
America's longest war, the two men discover that their friendship may
be the last casualty of a war that simply will not end.
"Last of the Boys", by award-winning playwright Steven Dietz, is a
fierce, haunted, funny, and mesmerizing lament for a generation of
Americans still trying to come to terms with the Vietnam conflict. As
one of the country's most prolific, versatile, and widely-produced
playwrights, Dietz has had numerous plays performed throughout the
United States and worldwide to critical acclaim. As with all of his
plays, "Last of the Boys" is marked by a mastery of language, and its
characters are defined not only by the stories they tell, but also by
the way they tell them; their exchanges are laced with humor and hurt.
Though the play reflects on the events of the Vietnam era it is not, as
Dietz says, "a historic play. This is about a world in which the same
hard choices keep presenting themselves."
"Last of the Boys" is being staged in the intimate confines of Beatniks
On Conkey, directed by Don Taylor, himself a veteran of the Vietnam
conflict.
Cast:
Jeeter
mid-fifties male
Ben
mid-fifties male
Salyer young
woman
Lorraine Salyer's mother
The Young Soldier 20-ish male
Any questions about auditions can be directed
to the director Don Taylor, via email:
cheaterdumplins@yahoo.com
Performances at Beatniks On
Conkey
418 Conkey St. Hammond,
IN 2 blocks east of
Hohman Avenue.
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