Red Octopus Theatre Company is holding open auditions for:
The Night of the Iguana
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Bonnie Ross
Winner! 1962 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
Nominee: Three 1962 Tony Awards, including Best Play
Nominee: Two 1977 Drama Desk Awards
Nominee: Three 1992 Olivier Awards
Set against the lush, suffocating heat of a Puerto Vallarta hillside in 1940, Williams’ sweeping drama explores the fragile human need for connection, the burden of the past, and the desperate search for meaning at the edge of everything. By turns darkly comic, heartbreaking, and profoundly tender, The Night of the Iguana stands as one of the great American plays — a work of blazing humanity from the master of the American stage.
Produced by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
ALL ROLES ARE OPEN
Maxine Faulk
Affable, truth-teller, earthy; lives to fullest; prefer bilingual (Spanish) but can work around.
Larry Shannon
Middle-aged man in emotional/mental crisis; drinker; lost soul.
Hannah Jelkes
Middle-aged; ethereal; quietly resigned to her life; antithesis to Maxine.
Nonno (Jonathan Coffin)
Hannah’s grandfather; in his 90s; frail.
Judith Fellowes
Middle-aged to older; stern, nasty-tempered, angry; described as “butch.”
Charlotte Goodall
Late teens to early 20s; vapid, flirty, provocative.
Hank
Shannon’s assistant tour guide; in his 20s; tasked with keeping Shannon sober and on schedule.
Jake Latta
Shannon’s middle-aged corporate boss; all business; appears late in play.
Pedro & Pancho
Maxine’s Mexican boy-toys; shirtless, sexy; few lines are all in Spanish.
Fahrenkopf Family
Frau and Herr, their adult daughter Hilda, and Hilda’s husband Wolfgang
Any appropriate ages for family relationships; loud plumpish Germans given to breaking into singing Nazi anthems; smaller roles but intensive rehearsals because of German speaking and singing. (Speaking German is not required, but if you do – that’s a plus!)
Content advisory: Themes addressed in this play include alcoholism, religion, homosexuality, and underage sex. The play is set in 1940 and reflects the language idioms of that time. Recommended for mature teens or older.
To help ensure an enjoyable experience for all, we kindly encourage guests to consider attending fragrance-free in support of those with allergies and sensitivities.
Red Octopus Theatre Company encourages any/all in the community who may be interested in theatre to join us for auditions, as we love to see new talent and welcome new folks to our stages. Our auditions are open to all because we want to see our coastal theatre community grow! Please arrive on time and let the attendant know if you will need to leave early. Callbacks are by invitation only.
Red Octopus Theatre Company is committed to inclusivity and does not discriminate with regard to gender, race, age, size, or ability. Most characters we encounter currently are on the binary and are written with he/him or she/her pronouns, and you will see that in the descriptions we provide. But however limiting the descriptions are, our casting seeks to be as inclusive as possible, and we invite gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with. We will also list race/ethnicity when specific to the character, but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities.