Reckless
by City Theatre Company
Oct. 21 - Oct. 22
It's Christmas Eve, and Rachel Fitzsimmons' euphoric existence is shattered when she learns her husband has done something recklessly unexpected. She escapes into a snowstorm and is swept away into the most fractured of fairy tales filled with crazed killers, insane therapists, over the top game show hosts, would-be paraplegics, and so much more. Craig Lucas’s dark holiday comedy is a hilarious - and very poignant – fifteen year journey forcing us to face head on, the slipperiness of fate and the hope of coming home again.
Casting Call! City Theatre Austin auditions for the wickedly funny holiday comedy RECKLESS by Craig Lucas
October 21 – 22, 2024, Monday and Tuesday, 6:30 – 9:30 pm. Ten-minute spots by appointment. Cast of four men, five women (doubling)
Genesis Creative Collective, 1507 Wilshire Blvd, Austin, on the campus of Genesis Presbyterian Church.
Needed: No prepared monologue. Sides will be performed and sent before your audition date. Please be familiar with the show and characters, and plan to stay a few minutes after your time as you may audition with others.
Please bring headshot, resume, and your best comedic talents. This is an open call to all actors.
Actors of any race, sexuality orientation, gender expression, ability, and age are encouraged to audition. Casting all roles.
Show dates December 6 – 22, 2024 with rehearsals beginning October 27. Directed by guest director Tracy Arnold with production design by Andy Berkovsky.
Contact 512-470-1100 or info@citytheatreaustin.org to set up an appointment.
Website: citytheatreaustin.org
From Dramatists Play Service:
At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her, and she must flee for her life—which she does by scrambling out the kitchen window and into the snowy night. She meets and joins up with Lloyd Bophtelophti, a true “original” who has changed his name to avoid alimony payments and who now lives with a paraplegic named Pootie (who also pretends to be deaf in order to get double disability). Rachel then wins $100,000 on a TV game show and begins a series of picaresque escapades involving numerous psychiatrists and, eventually, an ill-fated reunion with her husband. In the end, Rachel becomes a therapist herself, treating her own child (who fails to recognize her) and is led more and more to ponder whether the modern world might not be a vast conspiracy designed to systematically undermine her own increasingly shaky sanity.This richly inventive and often startling dark comedy marked the arrival of an exceptionally imaginative and resourceful young playwright. Filled with bizarre characters and events, the play reflects the fractured life-styles which have become the norm for so many in our tenuous times.
“With RECKLESS…Mr. Lucas has given us a bittersweet Christmas fable for our time.It’s a Wonderful Lifeas it might be reimagined for a bruising contemporary America in which homelessness may be a pervasive spiritual condition rather than a sociological crisis…RECKLESS…has a simple emotional pull akin to that of a Crosby ballad born of the lonely World War II home front, it yanks us through every conceivable absurdist hoop, fracturing narrative, language and characterization on the way to its rending destination.” —The New York Times.
