The Village Players of Ft. Thomas invites you to the auditions for Dearly Departed.
Audition dates are July 26 at 1 p.m. and July 27 at 7 p.m. and will consist of cold readings from the script.
Dearly Departed was written by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones and directed by Nathan Henegar.
In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious.
Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpin’s other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents.
As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, “When I die, don’t tell nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you.” Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.
Performance dates are February 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 and 20.
The Characters (ages range from early 20s-60s, depending on how the show is
cast)
• Bud Turpin, an elderly man
• Raynelle, his wife
• Ray-Bud, their son
• Lucille, wife of Ray-Bud
• Junior, their other son
• Suzanne, wife of Junior
• Marguerite, Bud’s sister
• Royce, son of Marguerite
• Delightful, Bud and Raynelle’s only daughter
• Reverend Hooker
• Veda, an elderly woman
• Norval, her husband
• Nadine, a young woman
• Clyde, a friend
• Juanita, a cousin by marriage
• The Joy of Life Singers
The show is written to be performed by 10 actors doubling in the roles.
Resumes and headshots are optional but not required.
Click here for more information. For additional information, contact the director Nathan Henegar at nathan.henegar@gmail.com.
The Village Players of Ft. Thomas is located at 8 North Ft. Thomas Avenue.
Call the ticket phone line at (859) 392-0500.