Streamers
Auditions
Audition Flyer
ELDEN STREET PLAYERS
Herndon, Virginia
STREAMERS by David Rabe
Audition Dates: Dates: November 3 & 4, 2002 at 7:00 p.m.
Production Dates: January 24 - February 15, 2003
From the playwright of "Hurlyburly" and "In the Boom Boom Room," comes an
electrifying modern classic of the American stage. Hailed as the 1976 New York
Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, STREAMERS is the explosive
portrayal of a handful of soldiers and their fatally intertwined destinies.
STREAMERS is a part of Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, which includes "The Basic
Training of Pavlo Hummel" and "Sticks and Bones," takes place in a desolate
Vietnam-era Army barracks where a group of disparate young recruits wait
nervously for their orders. Billy and Roger have learned to ignore their racial
differences and become good friends. Richie is an effeminate soldier whose
personality disarms the others, and when Carlyle, an angry black man, arrives,
the simmering tensions come to a boil. He berates Roger for living in a white
barracks, and crudely exposes Richie's homosexuality. When drunken officer Cokes
tries to calm the quarreling soldiers, Carlyle is driven to destructive
behavior. Placing the characters in a purgatory-like locale where death and
violence is imminent, Rabe's play crackles with the anger, fear, and confusion
of a group of young men at a pivotal moment in their lives. STREAMERS is a
tightly woven script, resulting in a tense, uncompromising drama, and a rare
challenge for actors.
Roles
10 men, all ages;
