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
