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Show Dates 8/31 - 9/8, 2024 at the Valerie Theatre
Audition Notice June 4 & 6 at 6:30pm
The Curious Savage Synopsis
The Curious Savage by John Patrick, is a comedic play about Ethel P. Savage. Mrs. Savage is an elderly woman whose husband has recently died leaving her ten million dollars. Contrasting the kindness and loyalty of psychiatric patients with the avarice and vanity of "respectable" public figures, it calls into question conventional definitions of sanity while lampooning celebrity culture.
The Residents
Florence Williams (20's-40's)
Florence Williams (20's-40's)
Florence Williams (20's-40's)
The elegant "mother" of The Cloisters, she believes she has a five-year-old son named John Thomas; in fact, John Thomas is a doll. During Mrs. Savage's stay at The Cloisters, Florence believes that John Thomas has the measles.
Fairy May (early 20's)
Florence Williams (20's-40's)
Florence Williams (20's-40's)
Fairy is a compulsive liar who is obsessed with having others love her. She is unkempt throughout the play but believes herself to be stunningly beautiful. She is also very childlike, behaving and speaking in the tone of a six-year-old.
Jeffrey (20's-30's)
Florence Williams (20's-40's)
Hannibal (20's-40's)
Once a military pilot, Jeff was shot down in the war, surviving a crash that killed all his men. He now believes that he has a scar on his face, which he constantly hides from others. He plays piano but is too shy to do so around other people. He is also married to Miss Willie, but does not remember that he is, due to the crash.
Hannibal (20's-40's)
Mrs. Paddy (40's-50's)
Hannibal (20's-40's)
Hannibal, once a statistician, was fired and replaced by an electronic calculator. He has taken up the violin, which he wrongly believes he can play beautifully. He is a kind man with a vast array of knowledge stored in his sometimes sarcastic head.
Mrs. Paddy (40's-50's)
Mrs. Paddy (40's-50's)
Mrs. Paddy (40's-50's)
Mrs. Paddy paints with the quality of Hannibal's violin playing. She paints only seascapes, which strikes Hannibal as "odd, because she's never seen the ocean." The other patients say that Mrs. Paddy stopped talking when her husband told her to "shut up" one day, and she hasn't spoken since. She only speaks to announce what she hates. She hates "everything in the world. "Her main lines are lists of random things she hates, strung together loosely alphabetically. Her tirades are ignored by the other characters. She has given up electricity for Lent and turns off all the lights multiple times throughout the play, causing mayhem.
The Savages
Titus (50’s-60’s)
Lily Belle (late 30's-40's)
Lily Belle (late 30's-40's)
He is the eldest stepson of Mrs. Savage. He has been sent so many threatening letters that he is listed by Western Union as a "tangible asset"; Titus is the least popular senator in congress. He is sober, humorless, and direct. Titus also has a temper that tends to come out most when dealing with his stepmother.
Lily Belle (late 30's-40's)
Lily Belle (late 30's-40's)
Lily Belle (late 30's-40's)
Lily Belle, was once married to a Slovak prince, and has remarried five times since then. A celebrity heiress, she is arrogant, chic, and self-assured. She is also very selfish and is constantly putting forth the effort to make sure others are respecting her. When Lily Belle first met Ethel, she bit her new stepmother's finger and has promptly been just as vicious ever since.
Samuel (40's-50's)
Mrs. Ethel P. Savage (70's)
Mrs. Ethel P. Savage (70's)
Samuel has the distinction of being the judge with the most overturned decisions in the U.S. He walks in the shadows of his siblings, offering a sassy, short comment every once in a while, only to be shot down.
Mrs. Ethel P. Savage (70's)
Mrs. Ethel P. Savage (70's)
Mrs. Ethel P. Savage (70's)
Referred to as "Mrs. Savage" for the majority of the play, she is a witty, kindhearted, blue haired woman with a shifted viewpoint of humanity. The events of the play are centered around her and her decision to hide the money which she has inherited from her late
husband from her greedy stepchildren, to give away to those less fortunate or to fulfill others' random, yet important lifelong dreams. She dislikes her stepchildren, but learns to love the residents of The Cloisters, accepting their own realities and delusions with an open-mindedness that others on the outside do not.
The Staff
Dr. Emmett (40's-50's)
Miss "Willie" Wilhelmina (20's-40's)
Miss "Willie" Wilhelmina (20's-40's)
The staff doctor for this wing of The Cloisters, Dr. Emmett is kind, warmhearted, and he works hard to help his patients.
Miss "Willie" Wilhelmina (20's-40's)
Miss "Willie" Wilhelmina (20's-40's)
Miss "Willie" Wilhelmina (20's-40's)
Miss Willie is an administrative assistant and nurse. She is married to Jeff but struggles to pretend not to be because he doesn't remember her. She occasionally calls Jeff her petname "Bingo." He is the reason she is working here, but she is nonetheless extremely kind and understanding towards all the residents of The Cloisters.
Audition Forms
Printable versions of the audition form, character breakdown, and flyer. Audition Forms can be emailed to j.walker@unityofcitrus.org
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