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AUDITIONS

SIDES

CHARACTERS

Maggie Pollitt:
Mid 20s to Early 30s – Maggie is a pretty young Southern woman of grace and charm. And she is a survivor, desperate in her loneliness and fear of poverty. Her marriage to Brick is virtually in name only as he has set strict conditions on their continuing to live together. Still, she continues
to fight for him and for their future.

Brick Pollitt:
Mid 20s to Early 30s – Brick is the youngest and most favored son of his parents. A former football star and sports broadcaster, his life is currently in tatters, and he has turned to liquor to escape a life he perceives as filled with lies and betrayal. Much has been definitively written about Brick’s character, but Tennessee Williams was purposely  ambiguious about Brick, and describes him as suffering from “moral paralysis” and “spiritual despair”.

Big Daddy Pollitt – Brick’s father:
It is his 65th Birthday. He is the patriarch of the family and is celebrating his life on this very special birthday. Dubbed by Maggie as an old-fashioned “Mississippi redneck,” Big Daddy came to this plantation in his early 20s with the soles falling off his shoes, became it’s overseer, now owns one of the largest and successful plantations in Mississippi. He is domineering, brash, vulgar, and capable of great love and compassion.

Ida “Big Mama” Pollitt:
63 – She grew up in marginally better circumstances than Big Daddy and enjoys the trappings of wealth. She is sincere, earnest, has a crude sense of humor, and “laughs like hell at herself” … sometimes to cover hurt. Her main goal in life is to be important to her husband, as he defines her identity. Big Mama is not an educated woman, but she is not stupid.

Gooper Pollitt:
Late 30s to Early 40s – Gooper Pollitt is the eldest son who has resentfully languished in Brick’s shadow since the day his brother was born. He married into ‘society’ and has become a successful corporate lawyer. He and his wife Mae have a brood of five children, with another on the way. He seeks to ingratiate himself into Big Daddy’s good graces as a loving son, the family lawyer, and an honest and upstanding family man.

Mae Pollitt:
Late 30s to early 40s – Mae is a former beauty queen who flaunts her self-satisfied snobbery as mother of five over her childless sister-in-law. Mae is responsible for the demonstratioins of familial love and devotion which she stages with the children before the grandparents. A grasping woman who is confident of success, there is little she won’t do to achieve her just desserts

Reverend Tooker:
50s and upward – The family Preacher – a tactless, opportunistic, and pious guest at Big Daddy’s birthday party.

Doctor Baugh:
50s and upward –  The Doctor is Big Daddy’s physician. He is a sober man who has seen much of life and has no illusions. He is also a keen observer of human nature.

The Children – Dixie, Trixie & Sonny: ages 8-12 in appearance
Mae and Gooper’s children. They are spoiled and undisciplined children, who intermittently interrupt the action on-stage. Under Mae’s direction, they offer up a burlesque image of familial love and devotion.

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