AUDITION: Pick Your Poison

Pick Your Poison
by Laura Barbieri
directed by Abby Stine
Show Dates: November 14-23, 2025

Open Call: Please attend one of the following:
Thursday, August 14, 6:00pm
Saturday, August 16, 10:00am

Location: Penny Smith Theatre, 114 Cussewago Square, Meadville

Audition details: Audition will consist of a cold read from the script.

Rehearsals will start in September.

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Show Synopsis: Pick Your Poison is a murder mystery farce in the style of the “country house murder.” Sir Nicholas Blackburn invites his old friends, acquaintances, and one stranger to visit him at his country estate, but some of them may not live through the weekend. In this audience-interactive play, the audience votes at intermission on which of the eight main characters is the murder, and the winning vote determines which one of eight alternative endings are played at that performance.

Character Breakdown: (Note that the setting is 1930’s England, so accent is preferred)
Alice Jennings – Female, late 20’s to 30’s
Josephine (Fifi) Francois – Female, mid 20’s to 30’s – Requires French Accent
Lord Earnest Crawford – Male, mid 20’s to 30’s
Dr. Merlin Hayes – Male, 50’s to 60’s
Octavia Osborne – Female, 50’s to 60’s
Clayton Asburty – Male, late 20’s to 30’s
Sir Nicholas Blackburn – Male, 50’s to 60’s
Hector Perrot – Male, late 20’s to mid 30’s – Requires French Accent

MCT is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all our productions. We provide equal opportunity in casting as far as our contracts allow.

Pick Your Poison is produced by special arrangement with Stage Partners. (www.yourstagepartners.com)