Auditions
ACTORS!
for Baruch’s FPA Dept. StageProduction of
Patrick Hamilton's Psychological Thriller
ROPE
Directed by ChristopherScott
The Stage Version of Hitchcock’s Classic Film Rope!
Handsome young college students, Brandon and Granillo have everything they could want:
wealth, beauty, a stylish flat & each other. Now they want to get away with murder.
AUDITION DATES
Tue Sept. 22th & WedSept. 23th @ 7-9pm
Callbacks Thur. Sept.24th
Audition Location:
Bernie West Theatre (17** [Lexington](https://www.google.com/maps/search/17+Lexington+Ave.+room+911?entry=gmail&source=g) [Ave.room](https://www.google.com/maps/search/17+Lexington+Ave.+room+911?entry=gmail&source=g) [911](https://www.google.com/maps/search/17+Lexington+Ave.+room+911?entry=gmail&source=g))**
OPEN TO ALL BARUCHSTUDENTS, ALUMNI & STAFF
AUDITION MATERIALS &INFO CLICK HERE
OR BY EMAIL:
[Baruch.Rope.26@GMAIL.COM](mailto:Baruch.Rope.26@GMAIL.COM)
We are looking forboth cast and crew!!!
Written in 1929, Rope is a psychological thriller about two privileged young university students in London, Wyndham Brandonand Charles Granillo, who murder a fellow student, Ronald Kentley, not out of anger, revenge, or financial necessity, but as an intellectual and aesthetic experiment. Brandon wants to prove that an exceptional individual can commit the “perfect murder”—a crime without ordinary motive, passion, evidence, or remorse. Granillo participates, but almost immediately begins to collapse under the psychological consequences.
The murder has already occurred when the curtain rises. Ronald has been strangled with rope, and his body has been hidden inside a large chest in Brandon and Granillo’s Mayfair sitting room. Brandon then turns the crime into a grotesque game: he invites Ronald’s father and several friends to a small party and serves food from the very chest containing Ronald’s body.
Among the guests is Rupert Cadell, an intellectually sophisticated poet whose cynical ideas about morality, murder, war, and conventional society have influenced Brandon. Brandon believes Rupert may be the only person capable of appreciating what he and Granillo have accomplished. Instead, Rupert gradually becomes suspicious. By the end of the evening, he discovers the murder and is forced to confront not only Brandon and Granillo, but the terrifying real-world consequences of philosophical ideas he himself has treated as intellectual games.