MTVarts Announces Auditions for 2026 A Night of One Acts:
“Our Place” by Terry Gabbard
Script
“The Yellow Wallpaper” adapted by Kathryn Funkhouser from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Script
Location: warehouse14 (14 East Ohio Ave, Mount Vernon, OH)
Initial audition and rehearsals will be at warehouse14 until we move in to The Woodward Black Box Space.
SIDES FOR “OUR PLACE” AUDITIONS:
Scene 1: Our Place
Two different couples try to claim the dock as their secret place
Jake: Male- 16+ to play 17; on a date with Holly, has history with Anne
Please prepare page 7 (top of scene) – page 9 (“my grandmother told me…”)
Holly: Female- 16+ to play 17; on a date with Jake (at first)
Please prepare page 7 (“yeah it’s nice”-page 9 (“oh wow”)
Anne: Female- 16+ to play 17; on a date with Lyle, has history with Jake
Please prepare page 9 (“a little further…” – page 11 (“why don’t you leap…”)
Lyle: Male- 16+ to play 17; on a date with Anne (at first)
Please prepare page 9 (“are we almost there”) – page 11 (“so I guess we…”)
Scene 2: Flick of the Wrist
Beth takes her father with late-stage Alzheimer’s Disease fishing at the dock they used to go every summer.
Jonathan: Male- 65+ to play 80s
Beth: Female- 40-60 years old to play 50s
Please prepare page 13 (begin at “All right, don’t laugh”)
Scene 3: Famtime
A family of 4 attempts some outdoor family bonding time
Al: Male- 30-50 years old to play 40s
Please prepare page 18 (“all aboard, me hearties”) – page 20 (“Did everyone have a fun…”)
Brenda: Female- 30-50 years old to play 40s
Please prepare page 19 (“honey? Can I talk to you?”) – page 20 (“God bless America!”)
Nicky: Male- 10-15 years old to play 13
Please prepare page 16 (“I can’t get in the water…”) – page 17 (“I will remember about…”)
Sherry: Female- 7-11 years old to play 8
Please prepare page 15 (“Dad this place is so cool”) – page 16 (“Can we look for bodies?”)
Scene 4: Tuna Fish
A couple on a picnic has a major relationship shift over a couple of sandwiches.
Liberty: Female- 18-30 years old to play 20
Please prepare page 22 (“I have never eaten…”) – page 25 (“or someone…more”)
Corey: Male- 18-30 years old to play 20
Please prepare page 22 (“this is a really…”) – page 25 (“what if after…”)
Scene 5: Stay With You
A worried, energetic little sister risks it all to find her older brother on a cold winter day.
Stanley: Male- 14-18 years old to play 16, angsty, dealing with some trouble at home
Please prepare page 27 (“go away”) to the end
Sidney: Female- 5-8 years old to play 6, cares deeply about her older brother, even when he isn’t the kindest to her
Please prepare page 25 (“I was worried…”) – page 27 (“Lisa J said that if you play…”)
SIDES FOR OUR “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER” AUDITIONS:
Cast of Characters 1910
JANE, 20s-early 30s. 1910. A writer who recently gave birth to a daughter, a difficult delivery. Postpartum depression has been mercilessly sapping her strength ever since, but it’s 1910 and this condition is not yet known – everyone around her considers it to be a weakness of will, and so does she. She has a mordant wit about her. She wants to be good.
Please prepare page 31-32 (Scene 10: Comfort, 1910)
JOHN, 20s-30s. A doctor in 1910. It would never occur to him that he was doing anything but the best for everyone.
Please prepare page 31-32 (Scene 10: Comfort, 1910)
Cast of Characters 1950
ELEANOR, late teens. Dorothy’s daughter. Bright and ambitious – but perhaps a little less worldly than she thinks she is.
Please prepare page 42-44 (Scene 15: Fragile, 1950)
DOROTHY, 30s-40s. John and Jane’s daughter. Eleanor’s mother. She has been hurt a lot, and puts up walls to stop it from happening again.
Please prepare page 38-40 (Scene 13: Neat and Tidy, 1950)
FRANK, 20s. Studying to be a doctor. Eleanor’s cousin. Generally kind, but his ego is fragile.
Please prepare page 42-44 (Scene 15: Fragile, 1950)
BOTH JENNY, 20’s-30s in 1910 and 60s-70s in 1950. John’s sister, is how she would describe herself. She wears no age makeup when she’s in the 1950s-she simply carries herself differently, not that John is gone.
Please prepare page 34-36 (Scene 12: It Runs in Families, 1950)
THE WOMEN IN THE WALLS – spirits trapped in the nursery. They want out. They are unsettling. Something in the nursery, the force of the wallpaper, prevents them from speaking and limits their movements, forcing them to communicate through Jane’s diary.
Lines are divided up between Woman 1, 2, and 3 for clarity in the script to illustrate how the messages are passed between Jane and Eleanor.
Please prepare page 19-21. Read all 3 Women as 1 character.
