AUDITIONS
AUDITION ANNOUNCEMENT!
ATYPICAL BOY
🎭 Open to Students in Grades 7-12
📅 Auditions on April 16, Show Dates: June 5-6
🎬 Directed by Matthew Weil
👦 ABOUT THE SHOW
In a fantastical world (not entirely unlike our own) where “conformity is compulsory,” Boy cannot conform. Others make a desperate attempt to fix him, but neither they nor he can change his nature. Labeled a monster by the experts, Boy is shunned until, heartbroken and alone, he disappears into a world of monsters. There, Boy struggles with Hugo, ruled by his monster side, and is drawn to Girl, who is still in touch with her true feelings.
A metaphor for invisible disabilities and disenfranchised youth, this play asks the question: Will Boy hold on to his humanity and accept himself, or will he become a monster? A cautionary tale that presents a comic anti-model of behavior, this entertaining fable for all times and all ages tells about the beauty and danger of being different in a world where conformity is valued and individuality is feared.
CHARACTERS
THE ORDINARY (male or female): Like a modern-day director, with one difference — the character follows the actors during the performance, side-coaching the action. The Ordinary enables the characters to tell the story, directs and punctuates the action with a percussion instrument, accompanying the “ta-rums” and underscoring various moments in the play.
THE BOY: An outcast, unable to conform.
THE GIRL: An outlier, still in touch with her true feelings.
HUGO: Outwardly a lost cause, ruled by his monster side.
PUPPETEERS/ENSEMBLE MEMBERS (3+): Immaculate, tidy, prim — but nothing quite matches. Everything is slightly, comically off. Their movements and language are stylized, in high form, but wacky, out of sync, as though they think they are perfect but they are not.