Auditions: The Great Big Doorstep — Sept 28 & 29
Auditions for the next production of the season are scheduled for Mon & Tues, Sept 28 & 29 at 7PM in the theatre in Rowan. Scripts are available for reading — email us at info@iowariverplayers.org and we’ll arrange for you to pick up a copy.
The play is an old comedy by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the pair who staged an award winning dramatized version of Anne Frank’s diary. It is based on the only book ever published by E. P. O’Donnell which some consider a masterpiece of Southern comedy.
The play concerns the Crochet family of Grass Margin, Louisiana in the Mississippi Delta. They are the poor, but proud owners of a huge set of doorsteps which 16 year old Arthur fished out of the muddy river after a flood. Dodging the landlady who comes around for the rent, they live in a shack that is falling down around them, yet somehow believe that this doorstep is an omen that their luck is going to change; someday they will live in a house that will match the doorstep.
There are parts for 5 women and 5 men and two children about age 10 to play twins.