MARION — Open auditions for all roles in “The Women of Lockerbie” by Deborah Brevoort will be held on Monday, Aug. 5 from 7 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday, Aug. 7, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Marion Art Center, 80 Pleasant St. (the corner of Main and Pleasant Streets). Performances will be October 18 to 20 and October 24 to 27.

In 1995, a New Jersey mother roams the hills of Lockerbie Scotland, looking for her son’s remains from the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the women of Lockerbie who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain clothing of the victims found in the plane’s wreckage. The women, determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim’s families. 

Director Jennifer Palmer will cast five females and two males. Actors’ ages should appear the ages represented in the following characters: Madeline Livingston, victim’s mother, age 45 to 55; Bill Livingston, Madeline’s husband, 45 to 55; Olive Allison, woman from Lockerbie, 50 or older; woman 1 and 2, from Lockerbie, 25 and older; George Jones, American Government representative, 40 or older; Hattie, woman from Lockerbie, works for Jones, 30 to 50. Auditions will consist of a cold reading from the script, callback dates to be determined.

Rehearsal schedule will be set once the show is cast. For more information, contact Jennifer Palmer at jengpalmer@msn.com.