Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

Audition Notice: Potatoes of August

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AUDITION NOTICE

Potatoes of August
Written by Sibyl Kempson
Music composed by Mike Iveson Jr.
Lyrics by Sibyl Kempson
Directed by Kathy Ng ‘25 MFA

Performances: 
April 10 - 19
Leeds Theatre: 83 Waterman Street 
(Please note auditions are taking place in Stuart Theatre)

 

POTATOES OF AUGUST is a theatricalist fugue wherein 4 retirees encounter a highly educated sack of sentient potatoes, and find their outworn belief systems forcibly confronted by the challenges of a highly integrated, enlightened metaphysics. Parts kitchen sink drama, musical comedy, intimate biographical portraiture, museum educational presentation, opera, Renaissance fair, science fiction, science fair, and phenomenological debate it is a fugue in both the musical and psychiatric sense.

AUDITIONS
Stuart Theatre: 75 Waterman Street
Friday, January 31: 12PM - 4:30PM
Saturday, February 1: 6PM - 10:00PM
CALLBACKS
Sunday, February 2, 1PM - 5:30 PM

Audition Slots will be 10 minutes long. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before your slot time and sign in.

Auditions are open to all Brown University and RISD undergrads.

Sign Up for an Audition Slot here: Potatoes of August Audition Sign-Ups

For Auditions Please Prepare:
  • You may be asked to sing, but do not need to prepare a song.

CASTING NOTE

Looking for folks who are deadly serious about silliness (and potatoes). Come ready to play! 

No prior performance experience is expected or required. 

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

  • The 4 "human" characters in the play are all confused, eccentric, deeply feeling, butt hurt, and too smart for their own good. 
  • The 4 "potatoes" in the "potato ensemble" all have a terrifying aura, are extremely powerful, and always up to some sort of vegetal mischief" 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Kathy Ng ‘25 MFA (she/they) writes plays and makes crafts. I was born in Hong Kong. My work aims to create sharply soft playing spaces for human-adjacent beings. I like the idea of theater as a construction site fo new, alien languages. Recent works include Sky Rats (Writing is Live 2024, Brown University),  bacon sausage veggie noodles (Clubbed Thumb Reading Series) and happy life (NPC Finalist '21, The Hearth). I made my NYC debut in the summer of 2022, where happy life received a world premiere production at Walker Space. The production was called "porous but sticky" and "seizing with an almost maniacal delight" - New York Times. I am a New Georges Affiliated Artist and an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group. BA from Brown in Writing for Performance. I currently live in Providence, a home-like place, where I’m back at Brown and pursuing my MFA in playwriting.Website (warning, work in progress):  https://kingyam.hotglue.me/

For any questions, please contact director Kathy Ng, kathy_ng@brown.edu

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