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Want to help bring a new play to life? Want to perform live at the Festival? Join a creative team of artists from different schools to workshop and perform a concert reading of a student–written 10-minute play. Faculty directors collaborate intensively with student playwrights, dramaturgs, actors, and stage managers to develop scripts and perform a live concert reading during the Festival. Synopses, character descriptions, audition sides, and audition forms will be available soon.

You are invited to be part of one of KCACTF's most popular events. Original plays will be cast, rehearsed, and performed during festival week. Open auditions will be held Tuesday, February 7th. Please fill out a sheet for every show you plan to audition for bring it with you to the audition. We recommend auditioning for no more than three plays.

All Parts will be cast for the following plays:

Foodstuffs – Rebecca Dzida
 
Synopsis
All John wants to do is grieve for his dead wife in peace, but unfortunately for him, his daughter Shelley won’t leave him alone.
 
Character Descriptions
JOHN: 60s, Shelley’s father, just lost his wife tocancer
SHELLEY: early 30s, John’s only daughter, exactlylike her mother

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Fumes and Plumes – Madhuri Shekar
 
Synopsis
In the middle of an epic, ten-day long traffic jam on the Beijing Expressway, three Chinese truckers play gin by the roadside, as their trucks, and the millions of vehicles around them, languish at a complete standstill. In this suspension of time, hearts are set aflame, livelihoods are lost, and the bleak futility of a powerless life is realized.
 
Character Descriptions
CHING-WEI: a truck driver in his late thirties. Ching-Wei is wiry, tense, and filled with a nervous energy. He is practical and unsentimental, uninterested in philosophy. All he cares about is doing his work, getting paid, and supporting his family. He has a rather biting sense of humour, a certain bitterness about him.
GAO-MIN: a veteran truck driver in his late fifties. Gao-Min is paunchy, comfortable- almost complacent-but somehow has a God-like omniscient view of the present moment, and life as a whole. He is contemplative, philosophical, compassionate and oddly implacable-much to the irritation of the easily annoyed Ching-Wei.
HAN-FEI: a truck driver, still only a boy in his late teens. Bubbling over with the impossible optimism of youth, he could not be more different from the worldly (and world-weary) older truckers. He is fresh-faced, respectful, hopeful and madly in love with a woman he saw for two seconds.
 
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I Love You More – Coral Chambers
 
Synopsis
I Love You More is based on actual events. Alice’s character is based on a woman who at the age of 4 contracted spinal meningitis, rendering her little body practically useless. Being her caregiver for the better part of three years, we spent a tremendous amount of time together. She was an exceptionally positive person, always looking for the good in everyone and everything. This play is a theatricalized account of my time as her caregiver. In the play, a personal aid (Chloe) meets and begins working with Alice. Through the action of the play, Chloe learns to understand Alice's difficult speech, unlocking both beautiful and heartbreaking stories of Alice's past. Ultimately, Chloe must bear witness to the end of Alice's journey on earth.
 
Character Descriptions
CHLOE is a woman in her early 30’s who’s been assigned to work with individuals with disabilities. She is gifted in the arts of compassion and humor; a perfect match for all who need a smile and a laugh.
ALICE is a beautiful woman in her early 70’s. While she is not mentally disabled, her lack of human interaction in her early years and her extremely crippled body hassled her learning throughout the years. She is exceptional positive and close to God.

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Letters We Write – LeShawn Holcomb
 
Synopsis
This play is about life. It’s about forgiving racism and moving into an inclusive world, as it was intended to be. Can a black man forgive his racist white brother-in-law, who wrote letters cursing his sisters’ marriage? Or will they loose to racism. This play is about life.
 
Character Descriptions
DARYL: Black Man. 30
JAMIE: White Woman- DARYL’S wife. 29
KENNETH: JAMIE’S Brother. 34

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Mochi – Wendy Gourley
 
Synopsis
Mochi is an historical fiction about the internment experience of WWII. Miko, a young girl interned at Topaz, Utah, learns of art and life from her art teacher. The events are based from primary accounts of the time and some of the philosophies expressed are those of Hisako Hibi, Chiura Obata, Masao Yabuki and others who taught or were taught at the Topaz Art School. The projected paintings were painted by Hisako Hibi during her internment.
 
Character Descriptions
MIK0: A 13 year old Nissei girl (second-generation Japanese-American); a typical American pre-teen of the early1940's.
HISAKO HIBI: An adult Issei woman (first-generation Japanese-American); although she was born and raised in Japan, she has been in the United States for many years.She should still speak English with an accent.
FATHER: MIKO'sdead father. A mute character. Should be dressed in a black dress kimono with fan. Played by a mime/dancer. Could be masked.

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The Last Slice – Nicholas Scutti
 
Synopsis
Nothing can stop David and Martha from having the most wonderful anniversary dinner...until they both reach for the last slice of bread. From there, David and Martha argue over why each of them deserves the last slice, which leads to a fight over how one treats the other insignificantly. The facade of a happy marriage finally dissolves as David calls Martha a "fatlard," and Martha explains that she's pregnant, wanting to wait until their anniversary to tell him. The couple look away from each other, neither of them wanting to finish the last slice of bread.
 
Character Descriptions
DAVID: mid-thirties. Married to Martha. He wants to please his wife by being a gentleman, but after only a year of marriage, his patience with her is coming to a close.
MARTHA: mid-thirties. Married to David. She loves her husband, warts and all, but takes his love for granted. She has a secret that she know she will love.

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