Guest Director Jane Kelley Martin of Burnet also serves as an HCCT Governor and VP-Production.

Auditions will be held at 7 p.m., Monday, April 19 at Hill Country Community Theatre in Marble Falls, Texas, for Grace and Glorie, a sentimental, crowd-pleasing story with only two actresses on stage.

The touching comedy, written by Tom Ziegler, will be directed by Artistic Guest Director Jane Kelley Martin of Burnet, who also serves on the HCCT Board of Governors as V.P-Production.

“This promises to be an amazing experience for everyone involved - actors, crew and audience members,” said Martin, who directed The Miracle Worker in 2003 and made her first on-stage appearance at HCCT in February in I Love, You’re Perfect, Now Change.

This "Odd Couple” relationship between two women, who are decades apart in their ages, is fraught with both laughter and poignancy about the difficulties of living and dying. Playing for two weeks only, the show opens June 3 and runs for only nine performances through the June 13th. Curtain is at 8 p.m. nightly with two Sunday matinees at 2:15 p.m.

Box office for the production will open weekdays and Saturdays beginning May 24 from noon until 4 p.m. for patron members and May 26 for the general public. Information and reservations can be obtained by calling 830-798-8944 or using the www.hcct.org web site.
HCCT is located at 4003 West FM 2147 in Cottonwood Shores, between Marble Falls and Horseshoe Bay. Scripts for the play are available for checkout now.

Grace Stiles, an elderly woman, has checked herself out of the hospital and returned to her beloved cottage home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Gloria “Glorie” Greenwood, a Harvard grad, lonely ex-New Yorker and a volunteer hospice worker, appears to deliver medication Grace has willfully left behind.

Grace, who is cantankerous, rustic and non-nonsense is a contrast to Grace, for whom life is intense, unhappy and guilt-ridden. As they both attempt to “nurse” the other, they gain new perspectives on life’s highest values.
“For all the actresses who talk about the shortage of great roles for women, here are two roles of a lifetime,” Martin observed. “The age range for either one can be very flexible. The script is inspiring and the on-stage opportunity to be a part of this heartwarming tale of courage and reaffirmation is, in a word, exciting.”

HCCT has an open casting policy, with pre-casting forbidden. No experience is required. All parts require some basic stage movement. Auditions consist of cold readings, but a short one- or two-minute monologue highlighting one’s talents is acceptable. Everyone, regardless of experience, is encouraged to try-out, and volunteers for lighting, props, stage management, make-up, costumes and set construction also are welcome to attend the audition.

Rehearsals, which are typically held Mondays through Thursdays between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., begin Tuesday, April 20. Minor scheduling conflicts can be accommodated with adequate notice.

Meanwhile, Love, Sex & the I.R.S. continues its two-week run through April 25, providing laughter and hilarious situations in a farcical relief on the current tax season.

For more information on the current performances or tickets, membership, volunteer opportunities (box office, costumes, make-up, props, lighting, set building and painting), auditions or script checkout, please contact the HCCT Box Office at 830-798-8944, or the Executive Office at 830-693-2474.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR INTERVIEWS:
Preston F. Kirk, APR, Publicity, HCCT Governor, Spicewood, TX, 830-693-4447; F 693-9898, kirk@281.com