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CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
**NOTE: Actors must be 18+ at the time of audition. This production will include nudity.**
Martin Dysart – M: mid 40's-mid 50's: A psychiatrist at a hospital, who works with youths. He has recently been questioning his life and work.
Alan Strang – M: plays 17 years old: A troubled young man, the patient of Dr. Dysart
Alan’s Father - M: 50s: Hates religion, TV, has a hard time talking about personal issues
Dora Strang – F: 50s: Alan’s mother, a very religious woman
Hesther Salomon – F: 40s: A magistrate, Dysart’s friend and confidante
Jill Mason – F: 20s: Works in the stables, loves horses and riding, down to earth approach to life, pretty, attracted to Alan
Harry Dalton – M; 40-60: A stable owner
A Horseman/Nugget, the lead horse: The Horseman is a speaking part. Nugget requires a physically strong actor with excellent movement skills.
A Nurse: M or F: 20-60: Alan’s nurse, any age
Five Actors: Horses, shop customers, theatre patrons
When appropriate, we will be flexible in our casting choices with regards to age and gender identity.
Synopsis:
Dr. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is confronted with Alan Strang, a boy who has blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion. This very passion is as foreign to Dysart as the act itself. To the boy’s parents, it is a hideous mystery; Alan has always adored horses. To Dysart, it is a psychological puzzle that leads both doctor and patient to a complex and disturbingly dramatic confrontation. This international success reached new acclaim in London and on Broadway when revived in 2008.
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French.
Twilight Theater Company is a nonprofit company, and regrets there is no pay available for this production.
**NOTE: Actors must be 18+ at the time of audition. This production will include nudity.**
Martin Dysart – M: mid 40's-mid 50's: A psychiatrist at a hospital, who works with youths. He has recently been questioning his life and work.
Alan Strang – M: plays 17 years old: A troubled young man, the patient of Dr. Dysart
Alan’s Father - M: 50s: Hates religion, TV, has a hard time talking about personal issues
Dora Strang – F: 50s: Alan’s mother, a very religious woman
Hesther Salomon – F: 40s: A magistrate, Dysart’s friend and confidante
Jill Mason – F: 20s: Works in the stables, loves horses and riding, down to earth approach to life, pretty, attracted to Alan
Harry Dalton – M; 40-60: A stable owner
A Horseman/Nugget, the lead horse: The Horseman is a speaking part. Nugget requires a physically strong actor with excellent movement skills.
A Nurse: M or F: 20-60: Alan’s nurse, any age
Five Actors: Horses, shop customers, theatre patrons
When appropriate, we will be flexible in our casting choices with regards to age and gender identity.
Synopsis:
Dr. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is confronted with Alan Strang, a boy who has blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion. This very passion is as foreign to Dysart as the act itself. To the boy’s parents, it is a hideous mystery; Alan has always adored horses. To Dysart, it is a psychological puzzle that leads both doctor and patient to a complex and disturbingly dramatic confrontation. This international success reached new acclaim in London and on Broadway when revived in 2008.
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French.
Twilight Theater Company is a nonprofit company, and regrets there is no pay available for this production.
