Auditions for the plays:
The Seeing Place
by Lauren Wilson
Directed by Marybeth Gorman Craig and Lauren Wilson
Rehearsal Dates: August 20 - September 24, 2025
Performance Dates: September 25 - October 5, 2025
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Dustin Whitehead
Rehearsal Dates: September 22 - November 6, 2025
Performance Dates: November 7-15, 2025
will be held
Tuesday, April 22
5pm-8pm
with Call Backs April 23-24
Location
Booker T. Washington Building, Rm. 102
Audition Requirements
Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue (contemporary or heightened language).
To register for an audition:
- Fill out an online audition form
- Sign up for an audition time
About the Plays
Content Notes and Casting Breakdowns
The Seeing Place
by Lauren Wilson
Directed by Marybeth Gorman Craig and Lauren Wilson
Longstreet Theatre • September 25 - October 5, 2025
In the winter of 2025, a group of theatre students at the University of South Carolina begin rehearsing a play in the Longstreet Theater, a grand 1855 building which, 160 years earlier, served as a confederate hospital and morgue during the Civil War. Now in an advanced state of disrepair, the theater has been boarded up for years due to safety problems. Unfortunately, it is the only venue available to graduate directing student Sam for her final thesis project (an experimental 'Hamlet'), since the department's mainstage is being bulldozed to make way for a student wellness center. In the crumbling environs of the old theater, with its faulty electrics and creeping mold, the students throw themselves into Sam's project with heart and soul, until the ghosts of the building's past begin to emerge. An immersive ghost story, by turns frightening, funny, and poignant, the play is finally a paean to the theatre and to the students who find their people there, carrying compassion forward like a flickering spark through a world of danger and sorrow.
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Dustin Whitehead
Longstreet Theatre • November 7-15, 2025
The Importance of Being Earnest tells the story of two young gentlemen in London, who each live a double life, creating elaborate deceptions to find balance in their lives. When Jack falls in love with Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen, and Algernon (under a disguised identity) falls for Cecily, the situation gets complicated! Hijinks ensue, and the two gentlemen and their ladies are in for more than they anticipated when formidable Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen’s mother, begins sleuthing around to uncover the far-fetched truth. Oscar Wilde's brilliant comedy captures with wit and charm the absurdity and delight of the Victorian "age of surfaces" (as Lady Bracknell calls it,) while capturing the struggle of four passionate lovers trying to conform to expectations and, in the most roundabout and delightfully funny way possible, love who they wish and live how they want.
Theatre South Carolina embraces non-traditional casting and encourages the casting of ethnic minority actors, female actors, and physically-challenged actors where possible. Individual show directors, together with the artistic director and the acting faculty, make all casting decisions. While some parts may be cast before auditions, that is always the case with guest actors.