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SEPTEMBER 2022
9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24
By LAUREN GUNDERSON
Directed by ANDREW KARL
William Shakespeare’s been dead for three years. His friends and fellow actors miss him and his beautiful plays. When a pirated, badly botched Hamlet (“To be or not to be, there’s the point…”) plays on a nearby stage, they realize Shakespeare’s lines are disappearing into the forgetful memory of time. They need a book—a definitive copy of his original plays, but to make one, they have to battle an unscrupulous publisher, a boozy poet, and their own mortality. Lauren Gunderson’s look at Shakespeare’s First Folio is a lively, funny, poignant love letter to theatre and the printed word.
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CP2 Mini–Festival Auditions
CP2 Readers Theatre offers an exciting opportunity for actors, directors, and audience members to experience theater in a fresh way, with full dramatic readings of selected plays. No costumes, no sets, no props, and the actors perform with scripts in hand. These shows are an incredible opportunity to experience great theater stripped to its essence: the playwright’s words.
COVID AUDITION PROTOCOL: At this time, ALL ACTORS AND CREW MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED. PLEASE WEAR A MASK AND BE PREPARED TO SHOW PROOF OF VACCINATION WHEN YOU ARRIVE TO AUDITIONS. The stage manager will provide the audition form (or you may download it from this page, print, fill it out, and bring it with you to the audition.)
SCHEDULE: Be prepared to list all possible conflicts. Rehearsal schedule will be respectful of performers’ time and conflicts. Please note, due to Covid restrictions, fully vaccinated actors planning to audition are asked to carefully consider travel out of state during rehearsals or performances. County Players will follow current CDC guidelines for domestic and international travel restrictions for Fully Vaccinated individuals. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/index.html. Note: There are separate sections for both domestic and international travel which are updated as Covid-19 levels fluctuate. Once inside the theatre, you may be unmasked (if fully vaccinated) and/or to read for the audition.
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MINI FESTIVAL 1 AUDITIONS
ADMISSIONS
By JOSHUA HARMON
Directed by CHRISTINE CRAWFIS
SUN AUG 28 | 1pm
Performances: OCTOBER 7 & 8
Sherri is head of admissions at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. She and her headmaster husband have succeeded in bringing it into the 21st century.
When their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition and progressive values collide, with convulsive results.
Characters
Sherri Rosen-Mason – Early to mid fifties, very liberal secular Jewish woman. Head of Admissions for Hillcrest.
Bill Mason – Early to mid fifties, very liberal WASP, Sherri’s husband. Head of the School at Hillcrest.
Charlie Luther Mason – Late teens (17+), Bill and Sherri’s son, a senior at Hillcrest.
Ginnie Peters – Fifties to sixties, very liberal WASP, stay-at-home mom; her son is Charlie’s best friend.
Roberta – Early seventies, white, works in development at Hillcrest.
The play takes place at Hillcrest, a second-tier, on-the-cusp-of-being-a-first-tier prep/boarding school in rural New Hampshire.
Cold readings from the script. Sides will be provided.
THE NICETIES
By ELEANOR BURGESS
Directed by KIT COLBOURN
SUN AUG 28 | 3pm
Performances: OCTOBER 8 & 9
A black student visits her white professor during office hours to discuss her paper on the American Revolution. The polite review of her thesis explodes into a high stakes debate over race, history, power, and revolution.
Zoe Reed is an undergrad at a good liberal arts college. Female, black, 20 years old.
Janine Bosko is a college professor at the same college. Female, white, early 60’s.
From the author’s notes:
“Both of these women can be noble. Both of them can be charming. Both of them can be petulant, snotty, arrogant, overwhelmed and immature. Let them both be people. And resist the temptation to think of only one of them as a mouthpiece for the truth. When it comes to the facts of history, almost everything that both of the women say in this play is right.”
Cold readings from the script, sides provided here and at audition.
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COVID AUDITION PROTOCOL: At this time, ALL ACTORS AND CREW MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED. PLEASE WEAR A MASK AND BE PREPARED TO SHOW PROOF OF VACCINATION WHEN YOU ARRIVE TO AUDITIONS. The stage manager will provide the audition form (or you may download it from this page, print, fill it out, and bring it with you to the audition.)
SCHEDULE: Be prepared to list all possible conflicts. Rehearsal schedule will be respectful of performers’ time and conflicts. Please note, due to Covid restrictions, fully vaccinated actors planning to audition are asked to carefully consider travel out of state during rehearsals or performances. County Players will follow current CDC guidelines for domestic and international travel restrictions for Fully Vaccinated individuals. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/index.html. Note: There are separate sections for both domestic and international travel which are updated as Covid-19 levels fluctuate.
Once inside the theatre, you may be unmasked (if fully vaccinated) and/or to read for the audition.
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
By EDWARD ALBEE
Directed by ANNA MARIE PAOLERCIO
SUN AUG 14 | 7pm
MON AUG 15 | 7pm
Performance Dates
NOVEMBER 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19
Edward Albee’s award-winning Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is considered a masterwork of American drama, with dazzling language and unforgettable characters. There is no dysfunctional stage couple quite like George and Martha. The funny and darkly unsettling duo welcomes you into their living room, along with the young couple Honey and Nick. Lean in to the titillating shock and awe of this masterpiece of modern American Theatre, whose characters were just as radical, hilarious, and unforgettable then as they are today.
Virginia Woolf Cast Description
MARTHA* – early 50s; a boisterous woman; looking somewhat younger; sexy. She is the daughter of the president of the college, unhappy and domineering wife of George. She taunts him in public but loves him dearly.
GEORGE – mid to late 40s/early 50s; Martha’s husband; studious. Professor of history at the college. He is frustrated with his life and the delusions he and his wife have created. Generally subdued and henpecked. Protagonist of the play.
HONEY – mid to late 20s/early 30s; rather plain. Nick’s immature wife.
NICK* – mid to late 20s/early 30s; Honey’s husband; well put together; preppy. He is a new biology professor at the college and is quite ambitious.
*smokes cigarettes
Audition Form Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf Audition Scenes
ALL CHARACTERS – pp 13-17
ALL CHARACTERS – pp 29-33
ALL CHARACTERS – pp 54-58
MARTHA (monologue) – pp 76-77
MARTHA & GEORGE – pp 7-13
MARTHA & GEORGE – pp 67-69
MARTHA & GEORGE – pp 85-86
NICK & GEORGE – pp 42-47
NICK & MARTHA – pp 77-80
Martha and George – pages 7-13, 67-69, 85-86
All characters – pages 13-17, 29-33, 54-58
Nick and George – pages 42-47
Nick and Martha – pages 77-80
Martha – page 76 (monologue)
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