Past Event
Monday, December 5, 2016, 7 p.m.
The Dresser
5915 Severin Drive, La Mesa, 91942
Open auditions. No appointment necessary. Auditions consist of cold readings from the script. Prepared audition pieces will be welcomed. There is no stipend. Auditions will be held at the theater:
Based on the author's own experiences as dresser to Sir Donald Wolfit, this bracing, heartbreaking drama is an elegy to a by-gone era. Backstage at a theatre in the English provinces during World War II, Sir, the last of the great breed of English actor/managers, is in a bad way tonight, as his dresser Norman tries valiantly to prepare him to go on stage as King Lear.