PRODUCTION INFORMATION (You will be asked to list your conflicts with these dates on the audition sign up form.)

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REHEARSALS BEGIN: June 28, 2025

REHEARSAL DAYS AND TIMES: TBD (weeknights and weekends)

TECH WEEKEND: August 2 & 3, 2025 TIME TBD

DRESS REHEARSALS: August 4-6th, 2025 6-10pm

OPENING: August 7, 2025

CLOSING: August 17, 2025

SHOW TIMES: Thursday - Saturday at 7:30 pm; Sundays at 2:30 pm

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AUDITION INFORMATION

 

WHEN:  Students (age 10-18): Sunday, March 30, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Adults: Sunday, March 30, 5:00 to 9:00 pm and Monday, March 31, 7:00 pm.

 

CALLBACKS: Tuesday, April 1 at 7:00 pm if needed. 

 

WHERE: Georgia Ensemble Theatre at Act3 Playhouse - 6285-R Roswell Rd, Sandy Springs, GA 30328 (Rehearsals and performances will also be at this location.)

The Playhouse is on the back side of the Sandy Springs Plaza, behind Trader Joe’s, Peter Glenn Ski Shop, and Five Guys Burgers. Look for the driveway that runs beside Five Guys to get behind the building, and the theatre will be to the right. There’s plenty of free parking behind the building.

 

ROLES

 

GLENDA (WOLLEY) FAGOT (pronounced “fahGOH”).    Late 20s+.    MawMaw and PawPaw Wolley’s mostly-grown daughter.  A high-school dropout still living at home with her ten year-old son James.  Kind and gentle in nature... until she isn’t.  Attractive in an unassuming way, even in her Wal-Mart blouse.  Like mother MawMaw, a ferocious defender of her family.  Does the best she can as a single mom and worries that it isn’t enough.  Not as unsophisticated as her parents, but clearly cut from the same homespun cloth.     

 

JAMES “JACKSON” FAGOT.       10.    Glenda’s son.  An old soul with an addiction to beanie-babies.  Cannot say no to a stray kitten.  His peaceable demeanor and his unfortunate last name make him  the frequent victim of bullying.  A thoughtful and sensitive young man who understands that no one should be thought of as “trash,” even if they live amidst it.  The most present person in his life is his absent father.

 

MIKE AUBREY.       Late 30’s.    The Wolleys’ next-door neighbor, father of Allegrae Aubrey.  Standard-issue suburban American dad type.  Looks like he should be pushing a lawnmower or driving an SUV in a car commercial.  The stress of raising his contentious 13 year-old daughter is beginning to show.  Non-judgemental, open-minded and long suffering.  Not a “southern” bone in his body, thus setting the next-door Wolleys in stark contrast. 

 

ALLEGRAE AUBREY       13.    Mike’s daughter, and clearly the queen of the realm.  Exasperated with everything and everyone, particularly her put-upon dad.  Floats upon an air of superiority and holds the Wolley clan in disgust... or at least that’s her outer veneer.  Unable to conceal her compassionate and sympathetic side, although she tries valiantly to do so.  Engaged in a “frenemy” tug-of-war with next-door neighbor-boy James.

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RAY ORNELLAS       30+.    The assistant to the assistant city commissioner.  Described by Glenda (his not-quite ex-girlfriend) as “a snake with a manpurse.” The city agent tasked with evicting the Wolleys from their soon-to-be condemned property, a job Ray enjoys a little too much.  Not above negotiating a shady deal if it will get him what he wants- and what he wants is Glenda.  If bad living doesn’t kill him, MawMaw will.

 

ASKAY       30+.    Ray Ornellas’ faithful and obedient assistant.  A businesslike and detail-driven functionary.  If Ray requested it Askay would bow and salute.  And more.

 

J. R.        12-13.    The neighborhood bully.  His criminal history is a daily work-in-progress.  The frequent tormentor of James and the would-be conqueror of Allegrae.  Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

 

AARON        13-14.         The “nice young man” of the neighborhood.  Prince Valiant, at least in Allegrae’s eyes.  The junior version of Mike Aubrey.  More heroic in profile than he is in practice.

 

 J. R.’s MOM          30-40.    Down to earth and no-nonsense, the qualities necessary for handling wild animals such as her son.  Do not arm wrestle her.  You will lose.

 

 J.R.’s GOONS        11+.    If J.R. is the Wicked Witch of the West, then these kids are the flying monkeys, but on skateboards.  Passionately committed to carrying out J.R.’s program of chaos.

 

The following roles are already cast:

MAWMAW  (JOANNE) WOLLEY.       50+.    The family matriarch, southern as cornbread but much saltier.  An unvarnished, chain-smoking rustic who is quick with her opinions and even quicker at shouting down yours.  Subtlety is a word unknown to her, a word she can neither spell nor pronounce.  Has no concept of an indoor voice.  Is not in the running for Miss Congeniality.  Is not running, period.  Fiercely defensive of her family, all of whom she is pissed off with at the moment.

PAWPAW (PAUL) WOLLEY.       50+.   The dominant male of the Wolley clan, but only 2nd in command behind wife MawMaw.  A chronic and incurable packrat.  Buddha-like in physique but Bubba-like in temperament.  Like MawMaw, PawPaw is rough around the edges  and as unrefined as moonshine.  Seldom seen wearing a shirt.  Usually armed with a toilet plunger.  At war with the world around him yet the enemy of no one in particular.  A bear of a man, albeit a toothless one.

 

AUDITION PREP

Actors will read sides from the script; no outside material needs to be prepared. Please be familiar with all sides attached below as you will likely read for multiple characters. 

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SIDES: