Audition Announcement  -  Joe Orton’s Loot

 

directed by Pauline Wright

 

Loot, Joe Orton’s 1960s black farce, is a tightly plotted play about two bank robbers—Hal and Dennis—who need to hide their loot. Complicating and aiding this situation is the funeral of Hal’s mother, his grieving father, a nurse with a mysterious past, and a police officer who says he’s from the Water Board.

 

Audition Format: A short comic monologue if you have one and cold readings from the script. British accents are required.

 

Audition Times & Location:  Auditions will be held on November 18 & 19 at 7:30 PM each evening in the Salem Arts Association Gallery on Artists’ Row in Salem.  24 New Derby Street – Unit One.  Please arrive by 7:30.

 

Characters:

 

MCLEAVY:  Older man—60s—respectable, religious, middle class, smitten by Fay, confused and appalled by his son Hal.

 

FAY:  30s–40s. A nurse with dead husbands in her past. She appears to be devout and upright but will stop at nothing to get rich.

 

HAL: 20s. A young man of loose sexuality and even looser morals. He desperately needs to hide his loot.  Hall is McLeavy's son and because of his strong Catholic upbringing, he cannot lie.

 

DENNIS: 20s. He works at a funeral home but wants more. Another young man with loose morals although he wants to marry Fay.

 

TRUSCOTT: Middle aged. A police detective trying to find the bank robbers. He is absolutely corrupt and makes up the rules as he goes along.

 

MEADOWS: Any age. A police officer who does as he’s told.