City Lit Theatre is pleased to announce auditions for Shane, adapted and directed by Mark Pracht. This is a non-union production.

SHOW DESCRIPTION: Shane, a mysterious stranger, shows up at the Starrett homestead in the Wyoming Territory in 1889. Though he seems to be hiding a dangerous past, he's offered a job as a farm hand and settles in with the Starretts: Joe, his wife Marian, and his son Bob, our narrator. When Joe refuses to sell his land to open range rancher Fletcher, it sets up a deadly showdown that alters the fates of everyone involved.

AUDITION DATE(S): April 18th 10am-5pm, April 19th 2-5pm

CALLBACKS DATE/TIME: April 22-23, 6-9pm

PAY:
Principals - $150 rehearsal stipend + $25/show
Understudies - $300 stipend + $25/show on

CHARACTERS:
All roles can be played by any race. Gun play and stage-combat experience is a plus. Available roles are all male characters, open to cis and trans/GNC actors.

Bob Starrett (M) - Narrator - Shifts between a young man in his 20's and a 9-11 year old boy. Son of Joe and Marian. As a child the events of the play are confusing and frightening, but also exciting. As an adult, he is still processing his experience, but with a slightly more worldly framework.

Shane (M) - A gunfighter in his 20's or 30's. Haunted by past violence and cruelty. The kindness of the Starretts opens a door to a new life, a better version of himself. He makes a new, more just version of the valley possible, but can never live within it.

Joe Starrett (M) - A farmer and homesteader, late 30's or 40's. A physically strong and capable man. Deeply intelligent, charismatic, and a natural leader for the farmers and homesteaders. Father of Bob and husband of Marian.

Marian Starrett (F) - Joe's wife and Bob's mother. Late 30's to early 40's. A woman who comes from a much more genteel world than where she finds herself now. She's determined to raise her son with some sense of refinement. She is opiniated, but those opinions are delivered with clear intelligence and wit. Shane somehow represents both a connection to a more elevated way of life, and a darkly alluring sense of danger. Which is why she finds an attraction, and, in the end? She probably understands Shane better than either her husband or son. (THIS ROLE HAS BEEN CAST, SEEKING UNDERSTUDY)

Ledyard/Wilson (M) - Ledyard is a traveling salesman. Shane exposes his scams. Any age. Wilson is late 20's to early 30's. An amoral gunslinger. He reflects Shane as he was before meeting the Starretts.

Ernie Wright (M) - 30's to 60's. A farmer and homesteader. He has a quick temper.

Lou Shipstead (M) - 30's to 60's. A farmer and homesteader. The more cool-headed of the Starrett's neighbors.

Chris (M) - 20's a youthful ranch-hand in the employ of Fletcher. Unsure of the violence, but desperate to prove himself.

Curly (M) - 30's to 40's Ranch hand for Fletcher. Not terribly bright or brave, but he's senior to Chris, and expected to do a little more, although he immediately passes it off to the kid.

Grafton (M) - 40's to 60's the owner of the saloon and general store. His position as the man who provides what people want gives him some strong status in the community. He knows things others don't. His daughter is the local schoolteacher.

Fletcher (M) - 40's to 60's. The cattle baron of the valley, and the power both financially and politically. He's a free ranger, and is committed to keeping the land of the valley open to all, especially his herd. After all, it's more profitable if he doesn't have to pay for the land his herds graze on.

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