'Drinking Habits' auditions set

Auditions for the next Panida Playhouse Players production “Drinking Habits” will be held early next week.

Auditions will be held Monday, Dec. 11, and Tuesday, Dec. 12, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. “Drinking Habits” is a play written by Tom Smith about the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing convent where the nuns make grape juice from their own vineyard to give so the poor but have discovered that if they make wine they can use it to keep the convent going.

Tom Smith won the Robert J Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence in 2004 and it has been produced multiple times nationwide since then.

Available roles: Two females (20-plus years old), two females (20-40 years old), one male (40-plus years old), and twomales (20-40 years old).

The roles include Sister Philamena and Sister Augusta, who are in collaboration with groundskeeper, George. They have been secretly making wine to support the small convent for years, under the nose of Mother Superior who has an almost pathological hatred of what she calls “Satan’s hair tonic,” among other things. But Mother Superior has bigger worries right now. A letter from the Church in Rome informed all parishes that they were going to be covertly scrutinized, and that some convents could be forced to close. With only three nuns in the entire order, Mother Superior is convinced her convent is being targeted and that a spy is being sent from Rome. Amid that worry, two news reporters sneak into the convent. Sister Mary Catherine and Father Chenille round out the cast.

A variety of ages will make up the cast for this production set to start Feb. 14-17 during Sandpoint’s Wild and Wacky Winter Carnival. This comedic play will take place on the Panida main stage but auditions will be held in the Panida Little Theater.

Information: panidatheater@panida.org