Auditions: Harbinger Theatre at Valatie Community Theatre on Wednesday, 12/2 @ 6:30pm
AUDITIONS FOR HARBINGER’S 23rd CAPITAL REGION PREMIERE
Little Bear Ridge Road
By Samuel D Hunter
Directed by Patrick White
Valatie Community Theatre
3031 Main St
Valatie, NY 12184
Audition: Wednesday, 12/2
6:30pm Sign-up
7pm Audition (readings from script sides)
Seeking 2 M (30’s) & 2 W (50’s-60’s)
Performances: 2/26/27-3/7/27
This is an amateur, volunteer production.
Auditions for all roles are open to performers of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations and abilities. Please let us know if you require any specific accommodations during the audition or rehearsal process.
Sarah (Fernsby)
Age: Sixties
Role/Background: An independent, razor-tongued, and world-weary aunt who works as a nurse in a small Idaho hospital. She is diagnosed with cancer and shares a strained, complicated history with her estranged nephew, Ethan. She acknowledges failing to rescue Ethan from his troubled father, though she quietly kept watch over him from afar.
Ethan
Age: Early to mid-thirties
Role/Background: A rudderless, self-aware writer who returns to Idaho to settle the estate of his late father, Leon. Leon spiraled into meth addiction after Ethan’s mother left them, leaving Ethan with deep-seated resentment toward Sarah for not stepping in. Ethan recently left an abusive relationship and struggles with low self-esteem and past grievances.
James
Age: Late twenties or early thirties
Role/Background: A character who enters Ethan and Sarah’s orbit in rural Idaho and eventually forms a romantic relationship with Ethan.
Paulette
Age: Forties or fifties
Role/Background: A supporting character and nurse counterpart who interacts with Sarah in the local medical and community landscape of the play.
In the outer limits of rural Idaho, the last two estranged members of the Fernsby family tree, a reclusive aunt and her gay nephew, reunite to sort the mess left behind after a troubled father’s passing. They now face an uncomfortable and universal question: How do we deal with other people? And is connection more trouble than it’s worth? As their relationship begins anew, the two reluctant Fernsbys – separated by age and experience – start to understand the joys and perils of letting someone else into your own story, even if only for a moment.
“A gorgeous new drama whose touching central relationship coexists with a larger exploration of the intimate and cosmic… The play is a multifaceted gem, exquisitely shaped and cut, that shines out from the simplest of settings.” – TimeOut NY
Rehearsals in January & February. Bring conflicts to audition.
Please email white.patrick1963@gmail.com for sides.