Open Call Auditions

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 
Tuesday January 23 and Wednesday January 24 7:00 – 10:00 pm in the Yuba College Theatre.

Yuba College Theatre Department is seeking five men, three women and an ensemble of five actors for their spring production of She Stoops to Conquer. Auditions will be based on readings from the play and improvisations. All are welcome!!! Potential performers do not need to attend both auditions dates.

Rehearsals run M-F evenings with some weekend rehearsals to be confirmed including a technical rehearsal on Sunday, March 4^th. The play opens March 9^th and closes March 25^th with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings, Sundays matinees, and a Thursday night performance on March 15^th.

She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy of manners and was first performed in London in 1773. Written by Irishman Oliver Goldsmith, it remains one of the best examples of 18^th century “laughing comedy”.  The play is about Kate Hardcastle, a clever, young lady, who poses as a servant girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. Meanwhile, Tony Lumpkin and Constance Neville conspire to NOT get married so that he may gain his inheritance and she can marry her love, Hastings. Many delightful deceits and hilarious turns of plot are played out before the strategies of Kate Hardcastle and her friend Constance Neville conclude and the women “conquer.”

A full copy of the play is available for free on ProjectGutenberg.org, on Amazon Kindle or with this link http://bit.ly/2AQqUAL