The Bracken Theatre Company is holding auditions for Patrick Marber’s drama, “Closer” on Wednesday, May 7 and Thursday, May 8 from 6:30-8:30 pm, and Saturday, May 10 from 2-4 pm. Auditions will be held at the Phoenix Performing Arts Center (old “Kurlanchik” building) at 409 Main Street in Duryea. Performance dates are June 20, 22 (location TBA) and 27, 28, and 29 at the Phoenix Performing Arts Center.

Cast includes 2 women (age 20’s and 30’s) and 2 men (age 30’s-40’s).

Four lives intertwine over the course of four and a half years in this densely plotted, stinging look at modern love and betrayal. Dan (an obituary writer) meets Alice (a stripper) after an accident in the street, and the two become a couple. After an internet prank, Anna (a photographer) and Larry (a dermatologist) meet at an aquarium and fall in love. Through a series of events, these four people cross relationships and pursue each other, and struggle to find intimacy while failing to get closer.

Winner of the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Play and the 1999 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. “…a brilliant and bracingly adult new play from London…bruising and beautiful, shatteringly funny and devastatingly sad. The play’s dialogue has a raw emotionality rarely heard in art or life. It cuts like broken glass…full of bitter, intelligent, unvarnished truth. —Variety.

The script includes adult language and romantic situations. For more information, contact director Alicia Nordstrom at alicianordstrom@yahoo.com.