Sept. 17, 2004
Contact: Evan Robert Pohl
(805) 801-4561; epohl@calpoly.edu
www.calpoly.edu/~thtrdanc/
Cal Poly to Hold Auditions Sept. 30 for Edward Albee’s ‘American Dream’
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly’s Theatre and Dance Department
will hold auditions for Edward Albee’s critically acclaimed play
“The American Dream” at 7 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 30.
The auditions are open to the public and will be held in the Blackbox Theatre (Room 212 in the Davidson Music Building) on campus. Parts are available for three men and two women.
“The American Dream” will play at 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday, Dec. 2-4, at the Blackbox Theatre.
“Albee reveals the bizarre underbelly of a middle-class family in pursuit of an absurd paradigm in ‘The American Dream,’” said Cal Poly theatre student Evan Robert Pohl. “Mommy and Daddy, a confused couple living in a sexless marriage, discuss the decline of satisfaction in society as they prepare to eject Grandma from their crowded East Coast apartment and into a life of soft foods and bed pans. As Grandma reluctantly wraps her belongings, including a broken television and a blind Pekinese, visitors penetrate Mommy and Daddy’s cushy abode to reveal the shocking falsehood embezzling America’s sanity.”
The New York Post said “The American Dream” was “packed with untamed imagination, wild humor ... .” The New Yorker said, “This is a play for the resilient young and the wise old.”
For more information on the auditions or the production, contact Theatre and Dance Professor Pamela Malkin at 756-6071 or 756-7059, pmalkin@calpoly.edu or go online to www.calpoly.edu/~thtrdanc/.
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