Audition for MORE Little Devils!
Little Devils – the inaugural production of the Helltown Players – is back! Renamed More Little Devils, this year’s festival features a new set of original short plays and represent the amazing variety and quality of theatrical works written by Cape Cod playwrights.
A collection of published award-winning plays as well as world premieres, each offers a unique worldview – entertaining, hilarious, inspiring, and heart-warming.
Auditions…
Auditions will be conducted via Zoom from February 4 - 9, 2025. See How to Audition below to learn how to register to audition and choose your time slot.
The Plays & Roles:
Convergence
Playwright: Bill Jacobs
Director: Bill Jacobs
During a thunderstorm in 1965, three young men from vastly different worlds meet in a Bucks County barn. As they wrestle with race, privilege, and purpose, their fleeting encounter sparks a transformative moment that resonates far beyond the storm.
Characters
Freddie - 20 year old, light-skinned Black man of decent build and somewhat rounded features, a poet
John - 19 year old, just-shy-of-legally-scrawny, white kid, struggling filmmaker
Blond Guy - 20 year old, white, wealthy, self-absorbed college student
Setting
A farm at the edge of a road in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Summer, 1965
No Surrender
Playwright: Candace Perry
Director: Scott Cunningham
A disoriented stranger appears in a New Orleans homeless camp, claiming to have fallen from greatness. As he clashes with a veteran and a brash developer over history and identity, he challenges what it means to reckon with the past.
Characters
Robert - White man, 63, silver-haired with a trim beard, he appears to have fallen on hard times, though his speech implies education and Southern manners
George - Also white man, 67, homeless
Beau - White man, early 60’s, successful real estate developer
Setting
A homeless encampment under an overpass in New Orleans, LA
Morning. May, 2017
Remembering When I Used to Remember
Playwright: Patrick Riviere
Director: Florence Heller
A gay married couple prepares to renew their vows at the beach in Provincetown as memories are lost and found and past secrets resurface. Remembering When I Used to Remember is a humorous and heartwarming story of love’s endurance in the face of time and imperfection.
Characters
Tucker - Gay man in his 50s or 60s
Marty - Gay man in his 50s or 60s. Married to Tucker.
Jimmy - Gay man in his early 40s. A nurse
Setting
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Memorial Day Weekend 2024
Rolando
Playwright: Wendy Watson
Director: Florence Heller
A subway ride in 1985 becomes a haunting journey through memory, grief, and humanity. A man searching for connection and a young woman grappling with guilt tell parallel stories that ask: When faced with suffering, will we look away or reach out?
Characters
Rolando - BIPOC male over 50 – and they’ve been a hard 50 years. He has been through hard times but doesn’t inflict them on others. Just gets by best he can.
GIrl - Caucasian female, 30s. Bright, caring, and struggling with her values. She is telling her story in memory. Rolando is part of that memory.
Setting
A subway train in NYC
1985
The Pros and Cons of Implosion
Playwright: R. D. Murphy
Director: Mary Arnault
Allie is a whip-smart high school senior who is a car whisperer. She wants to restore her neighbor’s Volvo which has been left to rust for 20 years. Simple plan, right? Depends on what you know about implosion.
Characters
Allie - 18 whip-smart high school senior who is mechanically inclined. Give her a screwdriver and a cell phone and she’ll solve any problem. Give her a 3D printer and a place to stand...
Mr. Gordon - 50-something, the neighbor who has always lived there yet never moved beyond a nodding acquaintance.
Setting
The sidewalk in front of the one-car garage attached to MR. GORDON’s house in an older, densely settled, suburban neighborhood north of Boston.
August 2021
Colour My World
Playwright: Melinda Buckley
Director: Judith Partelow
At a small-town bus stop, a woman encounters someone from her past who is just out of reach in her memory. Colour My World is a tender tale of love, loss, and the fleeting clarity that brings hearts together.
Characters
Nancy Ripley - 55-60 years old
Malachy - 60 years old,
Janine - 40 years old, a home health aide
Setting
A small New England town
June
Venues and Dates
Little Devils will be performed at three venues:
Cape Rep Theatre (March 28 - 30)
The Academy of Performing Arts (April 4, 5, 11, 12)
The Pilgrim House Provincetown (April 17 - 20)
Rehearsals
Rehearsals will start in early February and run up to opening night. Helltown Players asks that actors be available during this time to rehearse. Schedules will be formed to meet the needs of the actors, directors, and playwrights.
Rehearsals will take place at convenient locations for the actors, directors, and playwrights.
Non-Equity
Due to budgetary considerations, Helltown Players will not be casting Equity actors for this production. We are a new production entity and we will need to keep an eye on our production budget for More Little Devils.
We have hopes that very soon, our success will enable us to hire Equity actors for our productions. We hope all you wonderful Equity actors out there will understand!
Compensation
Helltown Players will pay each actor a total of $200.00 for their rehearsal work and performances for the run of the production (this includes all venues.)
This is $200 per role. Example: If the actor is cast in two roles that will be $400.00 total.
How to Audition…
Visit this Google folder to find the plays scripts, play descriptions, character breakdowns, and audition slides (the scripts we will be using to audition each role):
More Little Devils Audition Information >>Complete this Google form to indicate your interest in auditioning for the show: Audition Form >>
The form will allow you to upload your actor bio, indicate the roles you are interested in playing, and choose dates and times you can audition. The form will explain how it all will work.
Auditions will be conducted via Zoom from February 4 - 9.
Get Started!
Hurry!
February 4 - the first audition date - is just around the corner! Fill out the form ASAP so you don’t miss this opportunity!
View Photos from Last Year’s Plays…
About the Plays
Take a look at the event pages to find out more about each of the six short plays that make up More Little Devils: Event Pages >>
