It is important to read the plays before auditioning. For more information or to borrow a script for advance reading, please email DSP at dsp@durhamshoestring.org or phone 905-725-9256. 

Auditions are held at the Oshawa Arts Resource Centre, 45 Queen St. There is plenty of free evening and weekend parking. Use the green doorbell for entry.

Auditions are public readings using the script; no monologues or bookings required. No fees and no experience necessary, but you should read the script to determine your interest and suitability. Please plan to stay for the duration of each audition. DSP is a community theatre so all participation is non-paying, non-union, and volunteer. Audition scenes will not be announced in advance. 

Bob, a retired autoworker, and Fran, an emergency room nurse, have worked hard to give their four children the opportunities they never had. Now, with the kids making lives of their own, it’s time to sit back and smell the roses. But the change of the seasons reveals some shattering truths, leaving us asking whether it’s possible to love too much. A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family – and a marriage – through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents’ love and expectations.