The Chetco Pelican Players and FoxWell Productions join forces for a co-production of the zany farce Fuddy Meers, by David Lindsay-Abaire. Auditions will be held by director Michael Fox at The Chetco Playhouse on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 22 and 23, at 6:30 pm, just one week after auditions for A Thousand Clowns. (The more the merrier!)
Production dates at CPP for Fuddy Meers are April 29, 30, May 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15.
We would love to take this show on the road later. How far and the exact dates depend on availability of the cast and crew, as well as the performance venues.
Please be ready to tell a joke for the audition. Reading the script is always a good idea before an audition. We’ve got a couple we could pass around; contact Michael at 541-469-1222 or email [email protected].
Needed are three women, three men, and one teenage boy.
Please note: The ages of the characters are listed in the script. In reality, they are only a guideline, in order to create proper relationships among the actors onstage.
Claire—about 40, a generally sunny woman with amnesia.
Richard—about 40, Claire’s chatty, friendly, sometimes nervous husband.
Kenny—17, a troubled teen.
Limping Man—about 40, a lisping, limping, half-blind, half-deaf man with secrets.
Gertie—60’s, a clear-headed lady who’s had a stroke and can’t speak properly.
Millet—30’s or 40’s, an odd man with a puppet.
Heidi—30’s or 40’s, a tough woman in uniform.
The story: Claire has a rare form of amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. Every morning she wakes up a blank slate, and her loving husband and moody teenage son have to remind her who she is and what she’s supposed to do. Today Claire is politely kidnapped by a limping man in a ski mask who claims her husband wants to kill her.
Every kink in the funhouse plot brings Claire closer to revelation of her mysterious past, as seen through her kaleidoscope perspective. It's a roller coaster ride trying to decipher her fractured life, surrounded by a carnival of alarmingly bizarre characters. Nothing is what it appears to be.
Fuddy Meers is a unique comedy/drama/mystery, both deliriously funny and oddly touching. It is, at the heart of it, a farce. We tend to think of farce in terms of I Love Lucy, Noises Off, and its younger sibling, Play On!, produced some years back by CPP and directed by Michael Fox. Farce is wilder than what we usually think of as comedy. The rug is constantly being pulled out from under the characters while they are constantly trying to regain their dignity. If you’re looking for challenging fun, step inside our Carnival Fun House; “Fuddy Meers” is stroke-speak for Funny Mirrors.
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