CP2 Auditions
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.
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.
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.
MINI FESTIVAL 2 AUDITIONS
GEORGE WASHINGTON’S TEETH
By MARK ST. GERMAIN
Directed by MICHAEL J. FROHNHOEFER
SUN OCT 2 | 1pm
Performances: DECEMBER 2 & 3
The women of the beleaguered New Bunion Historical Society must find creative ways to lure visitors to their sleepy New England town. When a set of George Washington’s dentures turns up in the hands of an unexpected rival, they brace themselves for all-out war.
GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM
By MARTIN SHERMAN
Directed by ANDREW KARL
SUN OCT 2 | 3pm
Performances: DECEMBER 3 & 4
Beau has spent his life trying to blend into a world that told him to be invisible. Rufus lives his life openly and becomes fascinated with the much older Beau. Falling into a whirlwind affair, over a decade, they navigate a relationship neither expect, but on which both depend. This is a bittersweet, funny romance about being a gay man in the 21st century, and finding love along the way.
MINI FESTIVAL 3 AUDITIONS
CONSTELLATIONS
By NICK PAYNE
Directed by BRITTANY PROIA
SUN JAN 22 | 1pm
Performances: MARCH 3 & 4
This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we know – delving into the infinite possibilities of their relationship and raising questions about the difference between choice and destiny.
ADA & THE ENGINE
By LAUREN GUNDERSON
Directed by PARKER REED
SUN JAN 22 | 3pm
Performances: MARCH 4 & 5
As the British Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace sees the boundless creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul mate Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Ada envisions a whole new world where art and information converge. Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age.