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Auditions March 23, 2024
The Wayne Theatre  is thrilled to announce the first production in our Live, Laugh, Loathe 2024-2025 season:

Three Sisters a Play by Anton Chekhov The Wayne is committed to working with local/regional talent. We look forward to connecting with you. 

Creative Team
Director: John Fregosi*
See bio below!
Stage Manager: Rowan Walker

Audition Dates
Saturday, March 23
4-6 in STUDIO WAYNE
(535 W. Main Street-just up the street from the Wayne).
Please enter from the back door. Parking is accessible in front of Studio Wayne or behind Studio Wayne.  Photo social stories will be sent to actors who sign up to audition. 

**Actors should plan to stay for the entire audition time. There will be no callbacks. 

Performances 
(Performances will be on the MainStage of the Wayne Theatre)

June 14-16Fri/Sat @ 7pm, Sat/Sun @ 2pm

AUDITION DETAILS
We are accepting OPEN in-person auditions for ALL ROLES. Must be 16 years or older to audition. Performers of all gender and racial identities are invited and encouraged to audition. We strongly encourage LGBTQ and BIPOC actors and actors of diverse body types and disabled actors to audition! We want to work with you!

TO AUDITION:
Please fill out this Three Sisters Audition Form before or on the day of auditions. You will be given a place to submit your resume and headshot.

Please prepare a dramatic monologue in the style of the play. Or use a monologue from here. 

Cast List Announced:
Actors will be notified via email if they do or do not receive a role in the production.  Those emails will be sent out by the first week of April.

Rehearsal Dates:
Rehearsals will begin
Sunday, April 21
(There will be one mandatory meeting soon after the show is cast - date TBA)

Rehearsals: Su, M, W, Th from 7-9pm at Staunton High School Studio Theatre (for most of the rehearsal process, until load-in at the Wayne)Tech Rehearsals will be at the Wayne Theatre the week prior to opening. No conflicts accepted during Tech Week or Performances.

Tech Week:
The week before opening, performers should plan on being present at all tech rehearsals. Every effort will be made to minimize rehearsals going over time. Flexibility is appreciated. The artistic staff reserve the right to make adjustments to the tech schedule based on the needs of the production and the venue restrictions.  

Questions? Feel free to send an email to auditions@waynetheatre.org.

SHOW SYNOPSIS
Anton Chekhov’s masterful play about life and the illusions we cling to. Three Sisters details the lives of three provincial sisters who dream of returning to Moscow and chasing their hopes. However, a disastrous marriage by their older brother, compounded with responsibilities, depts and affairs of the heart (both forbidden and unrequited), threaten to end their dreams before they have truly begun.

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
The Wayne is looking for playful and collaborative artists! We strongly encourage LGBTQ and BIPOC actors and actors of diverse body types to audition!

ACTOR ADVISORY
Moments of Intimacy: There will be moments of intimacy between Natasha and Andrei, Masha and Vershinin, Baron and Irina involving kissing and/or embracing. There will be additional incidents of familial physical affection throughout. All scenes will be staged with an intimacy coordinator, and will be conducted with respect for the actors’ comfort and safety, and with their full consent to all intimacy staging.

**For the purpose of brevity, each character is listed as the gender they are presenting, the general actor age range for the character and, where possible, the age they are quoted in the text. Note: Some characters play musical instruments - this could be done with recorded music, but actual playing is preferred.)

MAIN CHARACTERS
ANDREY SERGEIVICH PROZOROV
(Male 28-40) The brother of the three sisters. He is intelligent, on track to become a faculty professor, but he is weak-willed and has poor judgment.

NATALYA IVANOVNA,
also called NATASHA
(Female 25-35) Andrei’s fiancée, at first is awkward and is ridiculed, but later becomes bossy and flagrantly carries on an affair.

OLGA
(Female 25 - 40: specified 28 in text)
The matriarch of the sisters, a spinster and schoolteacher. A caretaker to everyone.

MASHA
(Female 20 - 35: specified 23 in text)
Married to Kulygin at a young age, she is dissatisfied with her marriage and falls in love with Vershinin

IRINA (Female 18-25: specified 20 in text)
The youngest sister, who dreams of returning to Moscow and finding the love and meaning of her life.

FYODOR ILICH KULYGIN
(Male 40-55) Masha’s older husband. He is light, joyful and jubilant schoolteacher, who loves Masha, though he is aware his wife is not in love with him.

LT-COLONEL ALEXANDR IGNATEVICH VERSHININ
(Male 35-50: specified 43 in text) Commander of the battery, and acquaintance of the father of the sisters. He enters in an affair with Masha.

BARON NIKOLAY LVOVITCH TUZENBAKH (Male 25-35: specified 29 in text) A soldier in love with Irina for years. He later quits the army in an attempt to win her heart. Plays piano.

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
VASSILY VASILEVICH SOLYONY
(Male 25-35) A social misfit who spends much of his time openly mocking people. He is infatuated with Irina, who finds him off-putting.

IVAN ROMANOVICH CHEBUTYKIN
(Male 50-70: specified 60 in text) Old Army Doctor, he is a fun, eccentric old man, who later adopts a devil-may-care attitude to life. Plays piano.

ALEXEY PETROVITCH FEDOTIK
(Male 25-40) A cheerful lieutenant and amateur photographer. Plays guitar.

VLADIMIR KARLOVITCH RODE
(Male 25-40) A lieutenant and a sub-coach at the school. Plays guitar.

FERAPONT
(Male 60+) An old door-keeper with hearing loss, who blurts out random facts.

ANFISA
(Female 60+: specified 80 in text) An elderly nurse who is quite feeble by now.

One or Two servants (any age)
Non-speaking roles

*About John Fregosi
JOHN FREGOSI has been active in the theater scene for over 35 years, with his first professional gig at a mere 18 years of age. He worked for theater and ballet companies on the Eastern half of the US, from Des Moines to New York to Sanibel Island and many places in between. In 1998, he moved to Staunton with his wife-to-be Stacey from Memphis’s Playhouse on the Square, where they met. He has served as a teacher of Theater Arts at Staunton High School for many years, where he has won awards as a theater educator and director.

As a graduate from Alfred University’s Art and Design School, he often combines a fine art aesthetic into his shows as he marries his passions of Scenic Design and Directing. Favorite shows of his are The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Peer Gynt, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Amadeus, and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (which sadly never got a Part 2 due to the pandemic).

The one act show, Document, however, remains a personal favorite as it was co-written and conceived with my wife.

He is thrilled to be crossing a show off of his theatrical bucket list this year by finally directing a Chekhov play after 30 years of waiting!
UPCOMING AUDITIONS

Auditions May 12, 2024
Details coming soon!