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The Pound Ridge Theatre Company

announces Auditions for

the Pulitzer-Prize winning play

 

A DELICATE BALANCE

by Edward Albee

 

Monday, August 18, Tuesday, August 19, Thursday, August 21 - 7:00 pm

at:  Conant Hall

255 Westchester Avenue, Pound Ridge


AGNES: A handsome woman in her late 50’s

TOBIAS: Her husband, a few years older

CLAIRE: Agnes’ sister, several years younger

JULIA: Agnes’ and Tobias’ daughter, 36, angular

EDNA AND HARRY: Neighbors, very much like Agnes and Tobias

 

For more information

Call Maryann Arcoleo-Koltun at 914-769-0189

or email us: prtc01@yahoo.com

 

Performances November 7-22

 

A DELICATE BALANCE is a classic study of the American family, albeit a quite dysfunctional one. The play looks into the confusion that erupts in a modern family's attempt to avoid pain and discomfort, which, as Albee demonstrates, only creates more pain and discomfort.

The play's major themes are denial of emotions (and often reality itself ), loss of opportunities and potential, and regret over paths not taken as reflected in the lives of a very well-to-do suburban couple who have retired but find their long-sought freedom about to collapse. In the period of one weekend, their home comes under attack by emotionally wounded family members and friends, who, in the end, expose the couple's own emotional insecurities.

 

“Be prepared for a surprise: an evening of theatrical fireworks that prompt astonished oohs and ahs, genuine laughter and a certain amount of delicious unease. "A Delicate Balance" is a drawing-room comedy that effectively uses the conventions of that long-archaic dramatic form, not to save but to destroy the atmosphere of WASP-y well-being in which drawing-room comedies once flourished.”

 

- Vincent Canby, New York Times

 

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