All Auditions are at 7:00 PM at
The Impossible Playhouse
1201 N. Main St.
Pueblo, CO
(719) 542-6969
All are welcome regardless of experience or prior work with the Imps.
by Michael Frayn
Auditions: November 19-20, 2007
Michael Frayn's Noises Off follows a theatrical company to a small town as they rehearse and perform Nothing On. Instead of
a play within a play it's more like a farce within a farce. We see the cast backstage embroiled in peccadilloes and petty bickering
and onstage in character trying to hit their marks and keep their lines straight. A classic English farce, Noises Off throws in much
opening and closing of doors and many entrances and exits. It's sometimes difficult to keep up with the fast-paced action, but
that's as it should be to keep the audience confused and amused.
Roles to be cast include:
Five men
Four women
positions for lighting, sound, set construction and back stage crew
Performances: February 8-9 & 13-16, 2008
8:00 PM
"Proof"
by David Auburn
Auditions: January 7-8, 2008
On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant
but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions;
the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find
valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance
and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's
madness ~ or genius ~ will she inherit?
Roles to be cast include:
Two men
Two women
positions for lighting, sound, set construction and back stage crew
Performances: March 7-8 & 12-15, 2008
8:00 PM
"Of Mice and Men"
by John Steinbeck
Auditions: February 18-19, 2008
Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the "fat of the land," have just arrived at a ranch to work for
enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerously powerful man. It's Lennie's
obsessions with things soft and cuddly, that have made George cautious about who the gentle giant, with his brute strength, associates
with. His promise to allow Lennie to "tend to the rabbits" on their future land keeps Lennie calm, amidst distractions, as the overgrown
child needs constant reassurance. But when a ranch boss' promiscuous wife is found dead in the barn with a broken neck, it's obvious
that Lennie, albeit accidentally, killed her. George, now worried about his own safety, knows exactly where Lennie has gone to hide,
and he meets him there. Realizing they can't run away anymore, George is faced with a moral question: how should he deal with Lennie
before the ranchers find him and take matters into their own hands.
Roles to be cast include:
Nine men, one woman and one dog
George: 20 to 30 years old
Lennie: 20 to 30 years old
Candy: 50 to 60 years old
The Boss: 50 to 6o years old
Curley: 20 to 30 years old
Slim: 30 to 40 years old
Carlson: any age
Whit: younger
Crooks: African American, 40 to 50 years old
Curley's wife: 20 to 30 years old
one semi-trained, old dog
positions for lighting, sound, set construction and back stage crew
Performances: May 2-3 & 7-10, 2008
8:00 PM
by Dorean Yaeger
Auditions: April 7-8, 2008
When a family lives with lies, those lies become reality. Any attempt to face the truth may be thwarted by avoidance of the issue.
How do those lies affect relationships that have been based entirely on dishonesty? This comedy-drama investigates what happens
to two sisters when one tries to cross the abyss of the facade.
Roles to be cast include:
Three women
positions for lighting, sound, set construction and back stage crew
Performances: June 13-14 & 18-21, 2008
8:00 PM
"That's It Folks"
by Mark O'Donnell
Auditions: August 11-12, 2008
If the world comes to an end, it's not necessarily the end of the world. "That's It Folks!" is a Looney Tunes
vision of the apocalypse. Set on "the last day on earth", this brief farce makes good on its promise: a meteor
shower and a plague of locusts, among other catastrophes, reduce the Earth to rubble.
Roles to be cast include:
Six men
Two women
positions for lighting, sound, set construction and back stage crew
Performances: October 10-11 & 15-18, 2008
8:00 PM
"The Lion in Winter"
by James Goldman
Auditions: October 20-21, 2008
Insecure siblings fighting for their parents' attention; bickering spouses who can't stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation;
even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman's
classic play The Lion in Winter, domestic turmoil rises to an art form.
Keenly self-aware and motivated as much by spite as by any sense of duty, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine maneuver against each other to position
their favorite son in line for succession. By imagining the inner lives of Henry, Eleanor, and their sons, John, Geoffrey, and Richard, Goldman created
the quintessential drama of family strife and competing ambitions, a work that gives visceral, modern-day relevance to the intrigues of Angevin England.
Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious, mordant wit, the stage play has become a touchstone of today's theater scene.
Roles to be cast include:
Five men
Two woman
positions for lighting, sound, set construction and back stage crew
