Audition Notice

Silver Lining Players in collaboration with Makeshift Theater is looking to cast actors 50 years and older for their next production, War of the Worlds! This will be a staged reading, as was the original 1938 radio play. Performances will be Saturday & Sunday afternoons at 2pm on October 12 & 13 and 19 & 20. Sign up for auditions here:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0944AAAF23A3FE3-50444805-auditions

Broadcast by CBS’s Mercury Theatre of the Air on Halloween Eve 1938, this legendary radio play, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, famously had many terrified listeners convinced that an actual alien invasion of Earth was taking place. Adapted by Howard E. Koch, co-writer of Casablanca, and starring Orson Welles, this original script detailed the frightening tale of an extraterrestrial takeover.

Audition Dates
Monday, August 19, 6-8pm
Tuesday, August 20, 6-8pm
Auditions to be held at the Oriana House Training Facility at 833 Carroll Street off of East Market in Akron.

Director – Bud Graske
Multiple roles for men and women

Rehearsals to start September 16. Full rehearsal dates and a link to the script can be found on the audition sign up page.