Please join us for a table reading and auditions of LALT’s January/February show, A Bird in the Hand by David Hanson. This 45-minute experimental production will take place at the Los Alamos Senior Center. Matt DeSmith will be the director, Emily Stark the stage manager, and Mandie Gehring the producer.
Table read: Saturday November 1 from 6 – 9 pm at Samizdat Bookstore & Teahouse (174 Central Park Square, Los Alamos).
Auditions: Thursday, November 6th and Friday, November 7th from 6 – 8:30 pm at Kelly Hall at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church (3900 Trinity Drive, Los Alamos). Callbacks will be Saturday, November 8th from 10 am – noon at the same location.
Show dates and times:
Friday and Saturday, January 30th & 31st at 7 pm (2 shows each evening)
Sunday, February 1st at 2 pm (1 show)
Friday and Saturday, February 6th & 7th at 7 pm (2 shows each evening)
Sunday, February 8th at 2 pm (1 show)
Show synopsis: “A tense exchange of assets between United States and Russian intelligence agencies goes off-book when a third party starts making their own deals. Personal and professional lives get caught in the messy business of espionage.”
Character list:
Phillips: Jaded Senior Agent with no love for her daughter-in-law, Marie
Riley: Golden Retriever Junior Agent
Manley: By-the-book quiet-type Agent
Heilman: Egotistical cryptographer with a complex and lingering resentment towards Janie
Sasha: A Russian wheeler and dealer with a penchant for pushing people’s buttons
Janie: A confident but jaded cryptographer
Marie: An empathetic and desperate cryptographer
Anna: An angry teenager who’s smarter than everyone in the room except her Aunt Janie, and she knows it
