The Marion Art Center has announced open auditions for all roles in the upcoming production of The Puzzle with the Piazza, written by Mark Dunn and directed by Pippa Asker. Due to current MAC policies and for everyone’s safety, only fully vaccinated actors will be considered for roles. Auditions are scheduled on Saturday, January 8 from 10am-12pm and Sunday, January 9 from 2-4pm at the Marion Art Center, 80 Pleasant Street in Marion, MA. Performance dates are in March. Anyone entering the Marion Art Center must wear a mask. Please send any questions to the director at pasker@comcast.net.
Director Pippa Asker will be casting four females and one male. Roles include: Althea Witlin, woman in her seventies; Leif Morrell, young man, thirties; Connie Morrell (Leif’s wife), thirties; Mattie Pleshette, young woman, neighbor, in her twenties/thirties; and Ina Gluck, Althea’s sister, early to mid-seventies.
Show Synopsis: The Puzzle with the Piazza, a new full-length comedy-drama by Mark Dunn, author of Belles, Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain, and The Glitter Girls, tells the story of septuagenarian Althea Witlin, who has one jigsaw puzzle among her large collection that she’s never worked. It contains 3,000 pieces and she has less than a day to finish it, because poor health has forced her to move in with her younger sister… without her puzzles. The Puzzle with the Piazza is a gentle, bittersweet comedy/drama about the fragility of family ties and the often much stronger bonds of friendship that lattice the final years of our lives.
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