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.
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AUDITIONS: JAN 19, 2025 | 1pm
WITCH
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Kit Colbourn
A fable for our times | CP2 Mini Festival
Utterly spellbinding.
A charming devil arrives in a quiet village to bargain for the souls of its residents.Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a “witch,” but her soul is not so easily bought. Unexpected passions flare, alliances are formed, and the village is forever changed. An inventive retelling of a Jacobean drama, this sharp, subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by.
Witch is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com
Elizabeth Sawyer – female, forties to sixties An outcast.
Scratch – male, twenties early 30s. The devil
Sir Arthur Banks – male, fifties, sixties. A wealthy and powerful man.
Cuddy Banks – male twenties, early thirties. Sir Arthur’s son. Painfully shy, a Morris dancer*. He is secretly in love with Frank, and also hates him, jealous of him.
Frank Thorney – male twenties, early thirties. Confident and successful young man, charming and ruthless. Very ambitious.
Winnifred – female. Twenties, early thirties. Sir Arthur’s servant, resigned and pragmatic. Secretly married to Frank.
Story
The play takes place in the small, fictional town of Edmonton. Timeframe, “then-ish but equally of the moment” according to the playwright. So, sometime in the past, no particular country. No particular accents required or sought. It’s about jealousy, attraction, desire of people and things, the purpose of life… the Devi’s usual playground. Then he meets Elizabeth, and is intrigued. She challenges him intellectually and makes him question his own purpose.
*Morris dancing. A form of English folk dance. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers in costume, usually wearing bell pads on their shins and/or shoes. A band or single musician, also costumed, will accompany them. A bit anachronistic, and by some, considered nerdy.
SIDES:
Winnifred – Frank
Scratch – Aria
Frank – Cuddy
Elizabeth – Scratch
Elizabeth – Aria
Cuddy Solo
Cuddy – Scratch
Sir Arthur – Cuddy – Frank
AUDITIONS: JAN 19, 2025 | 3pm
THE BURDENS
By Matt Schatz
Directed by Matt Andrews
Dark, family comedy | CP2 Mini Festival
A contemporary play with multi-generational themes and a wicked sense of humor.
Adult siblings Mordy and Jane have a problem. Their centenarian grandfather is an emotional and financial burden on the family, and he just won’t die. Scheming almost entirely via text messages, the siblings hatch an outrageous plan to relieve themselves of their family’s burdens and their own.
The Burdens is presented through special arrangement with TRW Plays. trwplays.com
THE BURDENS by Matt Schatz| CP2 Mini Festival
A dark and fast comedy with multi-generational themes and a wicked sense of humor.
Adult siblings Jane and Mordy have a problem. Their centenarian grandfather is an emotional
and financial burden on the family, and he just won’t die. Scheming almost entirely via text
messages, the siblings hatch an outrageous plan to relieve themselves of their family’s burdens
and their own.
The play is performed as a spoken conversation with no phones, screens or technology. The
Burdens contains adult language.
CAST INFO
Jane Berman, 30’s-40’s-something-year-old woman. Determined and won’t take no for an
answer.
Mordy Berman, late 20’s-30’s-something-year-old man. Cautious yet crafty.
They’re siblings. They’re Jews. They don’t have to be white.
SIDES:
THE BURDENS 19-24
THE BURDENS 13-18
CP2 is SILVER sponsored by Powerhouse Theater and Stewarts Shops.
