The Theatre Group at SBCC will hold auditions for George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and The Man” at 5:30 p.m. June 3 by appointment in the Jurkowitz Theatre.

Directed by Jonathan Fox, callbacks will be June 10, rehearsals start Aug. 26, and performances will be Oct. 8-25 in the Garvin Theatre on campus.

“Arms and The Man” is a romantic comedy. In his lifetime, it was one of Shaw’s most popular plays.

The play takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Raina Petkoff, a wealthy young woman with a taste for melodrama, is engaged to Sergius Saranoff, a dashing major in the Bulgarian army.

On the night of her fiancé’s triumph on the battlefield, a soldier in the Serbian army bursts into her bedroom, and begs her to hide him so he will not be killed.

Raina complies, and gradually becomes smitten with this new soldier, calling into question her engagement to Sergius, as well as her ideas of romantic love.

Roles are available for three women and four men. All actors must have a good sense of comedic timing as well as a comfort with elements of farce. All characters speak with American accents.

For more details about roles and sides, visit www.theatregroupsbcc.com/auditions.

Audition appointments can be made by emailing Christina Frank at cmfrank1@pipeline.sbcc.edu.