Auditions for Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance"

   Here's the information about auditions this weekend in St. Albans for A Delicate Balance:

   The Alban Arts Center proudly presents auditions for this classic American comedy from master playwright Edward Albee. There are four roles for women ages mid-30s to mid-60s and two men mid-40s to mid-60s. 

   The Alban production will be directed by Patrick Felton and will play on April 26, 27 and 28 as well as May 3, 4 and 5. 

   Auditions will be Saturday, Feb. 16 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 17 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

   Auditioners do not need to bring a prepared monologue, selections from the script will be available and the audition process will be done through dry reading. 

   A Delicate Balance was first produced on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on September 12, 1966, where it ran a respectable four months and won the author the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes.  

   The story revolves around the household of an old WASP couple (Agnes and Tobias) and the cohabiting Claire (Agnes' hard-drinking sister), who never passes up an opportunity to drink or to make a good joke at someone's expense (including her own). Their uneasy peace is disrupted first by the unexpected arrival of two old friends (Harry and Edna) - fellow empty-nesters with free-floating anxiety who ask to stay with them to escape an unnamed terror - and then by the arrival of their daughter Julia, whose fourth marriage has collapsed.