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.

CP2 is sponsored by Powerhouse Theater and Stewarts Shops. 

 

 

 

 

 

CP2 AUDITION FORM

 

CP2 READERS THEATRE

AUDITION DATE: October 1, 2023 at 1pm

DECEMBER 1 & 2, 2023
Fri 8pm & Sat 2pm

FREUD’S LAST SESSION
By MARK ST. GERMAIN
Directed by JAMES STEINMEYER

The first of September 1939. Sigmund Freud, the world-renowned psychoanalyst awaits the visit of soon to be legendary author C.S. Lewis on the day World War 2 is declared. The impending war and Freud’s failing health catalyzes a far deeper conversation as they clash about the existence of God, love, sex, and the meaning of life.

 

Audition Info:
St. Germain’s 37 page witty play actually feels like sitting invisibly with 2 of one’s quickest and smartest and most challenging acquaintances as they lunge and parry through some of life’s heaviest metaphysical questions. It’s September 3, 1939, as Sigmund Freud, the renowned psycho analyst, has one of his last intellectual matches with the esteemed C.S. Lewis, 40 years of age. Lewis brings his sense of logic, his rational nature, and his recent conversion from atheism. Freud, on the other hand, prefers to play the contrarian who banters with his opponent, while remaining humorous and provocative.

Casting:

Therefore, this show calls for two actors who enjoy an evening of thought-provoking intellectual exchange. One must be more rational and serious of mind, and the other a seasoned warrior, who pokes with wit and literary and historical references, while landing his jabs lightly but accurately.

Freud’s Last Session is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. dramatists.com

CP2 READERS THEATRE

AUDITION DATE: October 1, 2023 at 3pm

DECEMBER 2 & 3, 2023
Sat 8pm & Sun 2pm

THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE
By LAUREN GUNDERSON
Directed by MICHAEL J. FROHNHOEFER

In 1912, scientist Marie Curie spent two months on the British seaside at the home of Hertha Ayrton, an accomplished mathematician, inventor, and suffragette. At the time, Curie was in the throes of a scandal in France over her affair with Paul Langevin, which threatened to overshadow the accomplishment of her second Nobel Prize.

The Half-Life of Marie Curie, which revels in the power of female friendship as it explores the relationship between these two brilliant women, both of whom are mothers, widows, and fearless champions of scientific inquiry.
Cast:
Marie Curie – 44. Polish born, French national. Brilliant, shrewd, private and patient scientist. At this point she has already won her first Nobel Prize in physics with her husband Pierre in 1903. She is the mother of two daughters, Irene (14) and Eve (7 ). She was widowed in 1906 when her husband died tragically.
Hertha Ayerton – 58. British. A brazen, ambitious, fiercely intelligent engineer, inventor and suffragist. Widowed in 1908 she continued her work in electrical experimentation while secretly housing suffragettes running from police. Of Jewish origin she became an agnostic pragmatist.
Ages given are playable ages, actors need not specifically fit the given age to audition
Process:
Auditions will be based on a series of cold readings using sides and monologues from the script which will be provided at the audition

The Half-Life of Marie Curie is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the the Dramatists Play Service collection. dramatists.com

 

CP2 READERS THEATRE

AUDITION DATE: January 21, 2024 at 1pm

MARCH 8 & 9, 2024
Fri 8pm & Sat 2pm

PHOTOGRAPH 51
By ANNA ZIEGLER
Directed by KIT COLBOURN

Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets of DNA in the 1950s. Her more famous contemporaries Watson and Crick took all the kudos for the discovery of the molecule’s double helix structure, yet it was Franklin’s skill with X-ray diffraction that first uncovered what’s called “the secret of life.”

 

Photograph 51 is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. dramatists.com

Character Breakdown:

Rosalind Franklin – 30’s, a Jewish British scientist. Straightforward and matter-of-fact. Is fully aware of her gifts and intelligence. A woman in a man’s world.

Maurice Wilkins – 30’s-40’s, a British scientist. A bit stiff and formal. Challenges Rosalind. Admires her, but within the constraints of current societal norms.

Ray Gosling – 20’s, a British scientist. Honest and “green.” Earnest and awkward.

Don Caspar – 20’s-30’s, a Jewish American scientist. Open and affable.

James Watson – Early 20’s. Self confident, ambitious, presumptuous. Is never wrong.

Francis Crick – 30’s-40’s, a British scientist, a bit stiff and formal, yet caring, philosophical.

The play takes place in Britain with British characters, so accents are strongly encouraged. But some sort of “mid Atlantic” compromise may work as well if it becomes necessary.

CP2 READERS THEATRE

AUDITION DATE: January 21, 2024 at 3pm

MARCH 9 & 10, 2024
Sat 8pm & Sun 2pm

SILENT SKY
By LAUREN GUNDERSON
Directed by CHRISTINE CRAWFIS

A decade before women gained the right to vote, Henrietta Leavitt and her fellow women “computers” transformed the science of astronomy. While at the Harvard Observatory, Leavitt found 2,400 new variable stars and made important discoveries about their fluctuating brightness, enabling fellow scientists to map the Milky Way and beyond.

Silent Sky, the true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; Henrietta and her female peers believe in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.

All roles are available:

HENRIETTA LEAVITT (F, 30-40): Brilliant, determined, a dreamer, hard of hearing (wears a period hearing aid), has never much cared for the “status quo.”

MARGARET LEAVITT (F, 25 – 35): A homebody, genuine, sweet-natured, realist. (Ability to sing a plus.).

PETER SHAW (M, 30 – 40): The head astronomer’s apprentice, reserved, his views have never really been challenged prior to the events of the play. He is in love with Henrietta, as she is with him.

ANNIE CANNON (F, 40 – 50): A leader, tough, sure, grows into a firebrand for the suffrage movement;

WILLIAMINA FLEMING (F, 45 – 60): Scottish, intelligent, witty, warm and outgoing, the first of her kind, smart as a whip and fun. (Role requires a Scottish Accent)

Ages given are playable ages, actors need not specifically fit the given age to audition

Silent Sky is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists PlayService collection. dramatists.com