Show: ROMANCE OF A TELL-TALE HEART
Theater: Playcrafters of Skippack
Theater Website: https://www.playcrafters.org/get-involved/auditions/
Theater Phone: (610) 584-4005
Start date of auditions: 11/29/2025
Audition Dates:
Zoom-Based Reading Auditions: Saturday, November 29, 11AM-5PM; Sunday, November 30, 5-9PM
In-person Movement/Dancing Audition: Monday, December 1, 5-10PM
Invited Callbacks (if needed): Sunday, December 7
Performance Dates: February 13 and 14, 2026
Join us for an evening of Edgar Allen Poe! This short-run show will be somewhere between a staged reading and a full staged production. This showcase will feature a collection of Poe Poems and Short stories, some classics and some lesser known. With music, blocking, dancing, pantomime and more! This is a wonderful opportunity for actors who have limited time for a full production period and flexible memorization requirements. Come and find out the line where romance meets the macabre! Following auditions, please expect a full cast reading mid-December and a production schedule starting the beginning of January.
Upon signing up, actors will receive an email with audition information including a document with monologues for various moods/characters. Please choose a monologue to perform at your audition from this document. Memorization is welcome but not required. Initial reading auditions will happen over zoom and in-person auditions will cover Pantomime/Dancing and a possible date for invited callbacks.
MOVEMENT: The 4 short stories will involve one "Reader" standing to the side, contributing the majority of the spoken text. Any character action will be performed onstage by a variety of actors. Some of these characters will have memorized dialogue but many of them are movement-only. The Movement section of the in-person Audition will be dedicated to receiving stage-direction and performing pantomime while someone reads the relevant prose.
DANCING: There are two sections of the short story ELEONORA that will involve choreographed partner dancing. We are looking for two feminine-presenting people for these roles. If interested, it will be included in the larger movement/dancing audition. If you indicate interest in the "Dancing" specific audition in the survey, music and relevant stage prose will be provided.
To audition, please sign up and fill out the survey:
Reading Audition: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044DADAE23A6F5CE9-59914201-romance
Movement/Dancing Audition: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044DADAE23A6F5CE9-59922815-romance
Audition Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W5WQ2LF
CHARACTERS/PIECES:
THE WAITER: The host leading the audience through the program will be fashioned as a waiter in an upscale restaurant. They will be introducing the various sections as "dishes" cultivated by our "chefs" and "wait staff" backstage. Requires memorization but minimal blocking. The Waiter's script currently sits at 700 words but is open to making modifications to fit the actor's voice.
Poems will be open to any ages/type.
Selected Poems: Romance, Lenore, Annabell Lee, Bridal Ballad, A Dream Within A Dream, The Bells.
The Bells will be performed by 4 actors that each fit the character of the bells from each individual stanza
We are open to one person filling multiple roles within a single story (if allowed in context) and/or one person filling multiple roles within the program in general.
SELECTED SHORT STORIES: (* indicates if role requires memorization of text)
ELEONORA: Reader, Protagonist, Eleonora*, Aunt, Wife
MORELLA: Reader, Protagonist*, Morella***, Morella's 2 Friends, Priest, Morella II*
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO (abridged): Reader, Sommelier**, Montresor***, Forunato**
THE TELL-TALE HEART: Reader, Protagonist*, Old Man*, Police A*, Police B*, Police C
