RRT auditions are next week
May 24—Rushville Regional Theatre is hosting auditions for "12 Angry Jurors" at 6 p.m. May 28, 29 and 30 at the Rushville Public Library. Don't be late! Library doors are locked at 6:30 p.m.
The RTT is looking for men and women ages 20 (or who look 20) to 99.
"12 Angry Jurors" is a timeless story and play from 1955 and popular movie from both 1957 and again in 1997 called "Twelve Angry Men."
The setting and staging in one room, the simplicity of the plot, and the dialogue and discussion between the 12 actors makes audience members feel like you want to be part of the jury. The audience will be wrapped up in the evidence and facts of the case until the final curtain.
Synopsis
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father.
"He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room.
It looks like an open-and-shut case until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts.
"This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says a foreign-born juror," that we are notified by mail to come down to this place and decide on the guilt or innocence of a person — of a man or woman we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing."
But personal it is, with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes!
Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors get angry!.
The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it — in tense scenes that will electrify the audience and keep them on the edge of their seats — add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature.
