AUDITION NOTICE
THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
a comedy by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell &
Gordon Farrell
based on the book by John D’Agata & Jim Fingal
Directed by Rhonda Clark
When: 2-5:00 pm Saturday, May 4, 2024 – Readings from the script. Plan to arrive no later than 3:30 pm. If needed, callbacks will be at 2:00 pm Sunday, May 5. If you have any questions, email artistic@carpentersquare.com.
Where: At the theatre, located at 1009 W. Reno. Parking is free on the street. Do not use the parking lot for The Horn Trader on the northeast corner of Western & Reno.
What: Bring a recent photo and theatrical résumé. Be prepared to list any definite or possible conflicts on your audition form through July 20.2024.
Please read the script before auditions! Hard copy perusal scripts are available to check out. Call CST at 405-232-6500 or email business@carpentersquare.com to make arrangements to check out a script. Call or contact us in the office before dropping by.
Office Hours: Closed Mondays. Open Tuesdays through Fridays 1-6:00 pm. Rhonda Clark is usually in the office until at least 7:30 pm if someone needs to come late, but please text or call her at 405-205-2446 before coming by.
Performance dates: June 28-July 20, 2024
Specific dates are: June 28-29, July 5-6, 11-14,and 18-20 with brush-up rehearsal and archive photos likely on July 3.. Most rehearsals are scheduled Mon-Fri at 7 p.m. with Saturday or Sunday rehearsals scheduled only if needed to accommodate week-night conflicts. 1st tech is the afternoon/early evening or of Sunday, June 23, 2024.
CAST OVERVIEW: 1 Women, 2 Men.
EMILY PENROSE (40S-60S) Editor-in-Chief of a Vanity Fair type magazine with offices in Manhattan. Bright, very frank, and always busy juggling phone calls, emails, and her personal life. She’s under pressure to keep the struggling magazine afloat, and maintain its reputation while bumping up sales.
JIM FINGAL (mid-20s) A conscientious fresh-out-of-Harvard young man who has been languishing for six months at the magazine making coffee and covering some relatively minor tasks. He is eager to take on a new assignment, and is determined to be the best fact checker possible for Emily. Perhaps o the extreme.
JOHN D’AGATA (40s-60s) He has been called “one of America’s most significant living writers.” He believes essays to be “an irreducible literary art form like fiction and poetry.” However, he’s been known to push boundaries, so Emily wants his latest essay to be thoroughly vetted. John loathes being challenged by a young upstart like Jim. That’s putting it lightly.
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SYNOPSIS:
Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy—an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. When Jim is assigned to fact check D’Agata’s essay, the two come head-to-head in a comedic yet gripping battle over facts versus truth.
“…terrifically funny dialogue…once the writer and the fact-checker get into a lively debate on the ethics of factual truth vs. the beauty of literary dishonesty, it’s time to really sit up and listen…Their deadly serious but oh-so-funny ethical dispute is brilliantly argued…the debate at the heart of this play transcends comedy and demands serious attention.” —Variety.
“…buoyantly literate…wholly resonant questions [are] wrestled with in this briskly entertaining play…you’ll find yourself happy to have your preconceptions disturbed and assumptions unsettled.” —Washington Post.