Auditions

THE MINUTES and A SMALL AND HUMBLE ERASURE will both audition on the following dates. When filling out the registration form below, you will be able to notate if you are auditioning for one production specifically, or both. Please note that, due to the rehearsal schedules, you will only be eligible to be cast in one of the productions.

  WHEN: Monday, December 9, 6pm-9pm
                              or
                Wednesday, December 11, 6pm-9pm

******Added audition date Tuesday December 17, 6pm for the roles of Mr Breeding and Mr Blake ******

WHERE: Cain Center for the Arts / 21348 Catawba Ave

WHAT: Auditions will consist of readings from the script and improvisational exersises. You'll receive an audition packet via email by Monday December 2 which will contain all audition sides. If you have accessibility needs, please note how we can best accommodate you on audition form below.

HOW: Registration is required at the link below.

(If unavailable for audition dates, video submissions will be accepted. Fill out the registration form at the link below and we will follow up via email.)

Register HERE.

If you have any trouble accessing the registration form or have additional questions, reach out to Production Manager Carrie Cranford at carrie@davidsoncommunityplayers.org

ALL ROLES AVAILABLE.

• Mr. Peel has an eagerness that can only exist when paired with naivete. He is new to the council but has a desire to roll up his sleeves and get involved after the birth of his daughter. Mr. Peel believes that the world would be a better place if more folks got involved. He has no idea what he has stumbled upon but is not the type to “drink the Kool-Aid.” Mid-30s, open ethnicity, man, an utterly millennial parent who has realized we are grown-ups now. 

• Mayor Superba is the poster child of local government. He knows how to twist arms and knows that arm twisting always happens behind closed doors. He may look clean but there is a slickness to his dealings. Mayor Superba is at the center of everything that happens on the council. He knows that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar but that you catch the most flies with a bug zapper. Early 50s or older white man but has the energy of a man who will always be put together and ageless—the consummate politician.  

• Ms. Johnson knows everything that is happening and how to mind her business. She knows how to survive while keeping her head low and lips sealed. The council only exists with her labor while treating her like a subordinate. Mid-30s or above, Woman of Color who knows how to clock in, work efficiently, and clock out, expert code switcher. 

• Mr Blake is pragmatic and tries to get his piece of the pie no matter if the pie is nasty. He is newly under Superba's thumb and in the council's inner club. In some ways, Mr. Blake is the epitome of the phrase that there is no one more devout than a new convert, but the religion is American capitalism. He has figured out how to survive and even thrive in the council but escapes into a bottle. Mid-30-40s Black man who has been navigating white spaces for so long that he has grown to feel too comfortable in them. An idea man. 

• Mr. Breeding is an all-American man of this moment. He is a true believer. Mr. Breeding is the embodiment of white masculinity in local politics in 2024. He is rip-roaring and raring to go. He is ready to defend the council and what it means to be an American on every level. He is a late 30s, early 40s, or older white man who is brashly “plain spoken” and anti-woke.

• Mr. Hanratty is trying his best to be a good American and leader of Big Cherry. He wants what is best for his town but is coming from a place of misguided self-assurance. Personal experience guides Mr. Hanratty’s decisions and ideology. Truth is personal for him; he does not question his own perspective and experiences. An early 40s man of open ethnicity, he is certain he is the voice of reason and right on the council.  

• Mr. Assalone is almost a caricature of himself. He is always on the lookout for a move, a deal, and a leg up. Mr. Assalone isn’t going to start anything unscrupulous, but he isn’t above being on the take—for the council's greater good, of course. His place on the council is essentially hereditary. Mr. Assalone is tired of having to explain himself. “It’s Ass-A-LONE-AY.” He is a 40s or 50s open ethnicity man.

• Ms. Innes is a long-time council member/survivor. She entered the council as a successful power woman of the 1980s, but time has worn her down. Ms. Inness has had to become single-minded to maintain her place on the council. Her identity is tied up in her role as a council elder. At first glance, she seems to be in lockstep with the council but is willing to endure to ensure that Big Cherry is the place she can be proud of. 60s white woman, “If I had to go through it, so do you.”

• Ms. Matz is rattled and disheveled. Her anxiety is perpetually on 10 to the point that she may just be scared sh*tless. Although Ms. Matz is physically on the council, she is mentally trying to be anywhere else. She has been on the council for a while, and although it causes her stress, she isn’t sure what it would be like not to be a member, so she stays put. 40s woman of open ethnicity; “the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.” 

• Mr. Oldfield has always been and will always be on the council. He has not seen the ball since kickoff and has completely lost the plot, but he has always been and will always be on this council. A mid-sixties or older (but feels older) white man, he is a permanent fixture. 

• Mr. Carp is curious and not one to let sleeping dogs lie. He has the type of idealism that means he will investigate to understand, not necessarily to uncover. Mr. Carp’s moral compass means that once he starts to pull the thread, he has to unravel the entire sweater. He is a former council member who assumes people operate from good intentions and is truly shocked to learn his fellow council members do not. He is an early 40s—50s man of open ethnicity. 

THE MINUTES will be directed by Kathren Martin. Rehearsals begin mid-January and the production runs February 20-March 9.

• The majority of rehearsals for these productions will take place Monday through Thursday evenings and Saturday morning/afternoon.

• All performances will take place at the Armour Street Theatre in Davidson.

• After casting, an application process for limited stipends will be available through DPC's Actor's Support Fund. 

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of August: Osage County comes a dark comedy about the agony and ecstasy of small-town government. Good intentions collide with malicious inertia when an upstart young councilman returns from a brief leave of absence. Missing the minutes from the previous meeting, he senses the other council members—from shy civil servants to buffoonish politicians to senile elder statesmen—are hiding something awful about what transpired. In hilarious and unsettling fashion, The Minutes shows how fictional towns like Big Cherry and real towns like Davidson wrestle with uncomfortable task of recording their own histories.

Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize; Tony-nominated for Best Play 2022