Community residents are encouraged to auditions for the next Meridian Community College theatrical production, Decision Height, a play that looks into the lives of World War II’s Women Air Force Service Pilots.

Auditions for this Arts and Letters Series production will get under way on Tuesday, Aug. 8, at 6 p.m. in the McCain Theater. “We are looking for nine females to audition,” said Dr. Todd Brand, MCC chair of the communications and fine arts division, “and interested actors will need to prepare a one-minute dramatic monologue and be prepared to read,” he said.

This production will be directed by Kriss Kuss, theater director/professor from the University of West Alabama.  The play will run Sept. 14-17.

Decision Height is the winner of the 2013 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and it tells the tale of friendship and the complex though essential role of women in wartime.

In the play, Virginia Hascall has left her home and fiancée to become a Women Air Force Service Pilot, and do her part to help defeat the Axis powers in the Second World War. Through triumph and tragedy, she and her sisters in flight suits learn as much about themselves as they do about airplanes. As the war rages over there, the women form a sisterhood that cannot be broken, and Virginia must make a decision that will change her life forever. With a cast of nine vibrant female characters, Decision Height offers a look into an under recognized subset of American heroes and revises history into herstory. 

The play’s title refers to the altitude at which a pilot must decide to either land or execute a missed approach procedure.