by Ray Cooney and John Chapman

Move Over Mrs. Markham is a bedroom farce. As in all farces, it has believable characters in highly unlikely and exaggerated (yet plausible) situations. As in all of farce, mistaken identity, verbal innuendo, witty repartee, frantic pace and broad physical business (violent horseplay) help to drive the storyline. The momentum of the plot increases like an out-of-control bicycle racing downhill towards the inevitable averted catastrophe at end of the play. Farce is fueled by deliberate absurdity, but the nonsense of the piece must be played as if it were perfectly normal. It is madness masquerading as sanity. It must be acted with a ‘straight face’, at least initially. In farce the lunatics are in charge of the asylum. In a bedroom farce like this, everyone wants desperately to get ‘it”, but no one ever succeeds.

AUDITIONS
Sunday, March 30, 2008 7 pm-10 pm at Tallahassee Little Theatre
Monday, March 31, 2008 7 pm-10 pm at Tallahassee Little Theatre

Callbacks
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7 pm-10 pm at Tallahassee Little Theatre

It is not necessary for actors prepare an audition monologue. The auditions will consist of cold readings from scenes in Move Over Mrs. Markham. Gentlemen, please wear oxfords (dress shoes) and ladies, please wear a skirt and heels, so that we can work on posture and movement of these urbane French-English characters.