Time for "A Christmas Carol"!

The Compound is presenting an original adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".  Tickets are available online here.

What's coming up?

The two resident companies are both prepping new shows--The Compound is rehearsing their original adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" and Acting Unlimited has just cast David Ives "Lives of the Saints".  "A Christmas Carol" will open on December 10th and run until the 23rd, and "Lives of the Saints" opens on the 12th of January and runs until the 22nd.

When February rolls around, Omni Artiste will be bringing in a show, and Acting Unlimited is planning a special weekend of shows to run right after Mardi Gras.

We're ending 2011 with a bang, and starting 2012 the same way!  Stay tuned for more details and pictures of the incoming shows!

New Auditions

AUI/AURA is holding open auditions for David Ives' The Lives of the Saints on Sunday, November 6th (3 to 5 pm) and Monday, November 7th (6 to 8 pm) at Theatre 810. The show will be directed by Cara Hayden. Auditioners will be provided with sides for cold readings at the auditions.

The shows will run for 2 weeks in January (January 12-22).


Lives of the Saints is a collection of short one act plays. Here are the summaries:
THE STORIES: ENIGMA VARIATIONS. Zany hijinks as a pair of lookalikes named Bebe W.W. Doppel-gängler solve an identity crisis with the help of Dr. William W. Williams and his nurse Fifi, who may or may not be Aphrodite the Goddess of Love. Or is she a male gym-teacher in a dress? (3 men, 2 women.) THE MYSTERY AT TWICKNAM VICARAGE. A body on the carpet, three ridiculous Masterpiece Theatre-style suspects and a bumbling Scotland Yard detective solve philosophical quandaries as they investigate: Who killed Jeremy Thumpington-Fffienes? (3 men, 2 women.) BABEL'S IN ARMS. Two blue-collar Mesopotamian construction workers are handed a provocative task: Build the Tower of Babel—or else. How many stones does it take to get to heaven, anyway? (3 men, 2 women.) SOAP OPERA. A washing-machine repairman falls in love with a picture-perfect washer. Should he tell his girlfriend Mabel? Is the washer two-timing him with a dryer? Stay tuned. (3 men, 2 women.) LIVES OF THE SAINTS. A tender and gently comic meditation. Two women preparing a funeral breakfast in a church basement muse on life, death, and the meaning of Polish jokes—and along the way achieve a kind of sanctity. (3 men, 2 women.) ARABIAN NIGHTS. Utterly normal Norman walks into utterly ordinary Flora's shop looking for a souvenir of his travels and together they find whirlwind romance, spurred on by a wacky translator. (1 man, 2 women or 2 men, 1 woman.) CAPTIVE AUDIENCE. A cautionary fable tells how Rob and Laura face a menace in their living room: a television that talks back to them and threatens to swallow them whole. (2 men, 2 women.)

For more information, call Acting unlimited at 873-1548 or contact
 them at actingunlimitedinc@gmail.com

Theatre--Performance

Coming Soon.....

They fell... they fell as pebbles fall down wells. And now instead of men, there were only voices. All kinds of voices, disembodied and impassioned in varying degrees of recognition... and terror.


Celebrated sci-fi author Ray Bradbury's Kaleidoscope is the story of astronauts who are thrown from their ship. As they fall through the vastness of space, they talk to one another through their headset radios. Each one deals with the certainty of death in his own unique way and learns what secrets lie in the hearts of those they thought they knew best. This production is a radio-theatre hybrid, adapted for the stage from an old-time radio script.

Upcoming Auditions!

Audition for a Festival International comedy event!

PAID GIG

One day of performing on January 26th. Small amount of rehearsal.

Audition at 2pm on Sunday October 16th at Theatre 810 (810 Jefferson Street). Be there at 2.

Director: Nathan Gabriel (www.nathangabrieltheatre.com)

Both men and women wanted! All ages. Be prepared to do a little improv.

Classes, classes, classes!

The run of WILLIAM AND JUDITH has ended very successfully.  We're waiting for our next production from AUI/AURA.

Until then, AURA is offering classes at Theatre 810.  Currently being offered are a children's acting class, a young adult class on Mondays from 4 to 5 pm and Improv class(es) which begin on Wednesday, October 12th at 5:30.  The Improv class is accepting students of all ages, but will be divided up by age.

For more information, call or text 337-873-1548 or email theatre810@gmail.com.

WILLIAM AND JUDITH

We've arrived!

Theatre 810 is proud to announce its first show:  The AUI/AURA presentation of The Compound's workshop production of Cody Daigle's WILLIAM AND JUDITH.

Our brand new space is home to a 40-50 seat performance venue/rehearsal space for AUI/AURA and The Compound, and available to other local theatre companies as well.