Goldengrove
A New Play by Ben Slote

Directed by Beth Watkins

Show Dates and Times: Friday, February 28 at 7:30 pm, Saturday, March 1 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 2 at 2:30 pm

Open Call: Please attend one of the following;
Saturday, January 4, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, January 5 2025 at 7:00 pm
Email bwatkins@allegheny.edu with questions or if you need an alternative audition
arrangement.

Location: Meadville Community Theatre (400 N. Main Street, Meadville, PA). Please enter through the front door and wait in the main lobby.

Audition details: Please bring your schedule so you can identify any conflicts between January 7 and March 2. Rehearsals will typically be Sunday through Thursday evenings, though Sunday afternoon rehearsals may be scheduled depending on the actors’ schedules. We will provide excerpts from the play to read, so no monologue or other preparation is needed.

Play Synopsis: Little Renfield College has visitors: a renowned poet, a band of climate activists, and two undercover federal agents investigating something just beneath the ivy. Entangled in it all are a college staffer and his estranged daughter, still finding themselves and each other. A satiric drama of longing and surprise, “Goldengrove” tells us something about the power and limits of love and language in the time of climate change.

Character Breakdown:
Pat Landry: mid-level college administrator and English professor
Corinne Landry: Pat’s twenty-something daughter
Lucy Anderson: FBI agent
Aaron Parnell: FBI agent
Leander Twyning: poet
Henry Vanderheit: college student
Bailey Metz: journalist
Mary Beth Braithwaite: college president
Colin Roberts: environmental activist
Cyrus Angstrom: college trustee
Steele: drug dealer (non-speaking part)

MCT is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all our productions. We provide equal opportunity in casting as far as our contracts allow.