ANNOUNCING …
AUDITIONS for staged readings!
Only 6-8 rehearsals and 1 performance!
No memorization!
Be a part of MACH 33: The Festival of New Science-Driven Plays!
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AUDITIONS FOR
MACH 33: THE FESTIVAL OF NEW SCIENCE-DRIVEN PLAYS
Click here to learn more about the festival - http://tacit.caltech.edu/Mach33/
TWO DEGREES by Tira Palmquist
performed on Earth Day, April 22, 8pm, in Ramo Auditorium
and
THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE MERCENARY by Karen Howes
performed on May 16, time and location TBA
AUDITIONS for BOTH PLAYS will be held MONDAY, APRIL 6, 7 - 9pm
CALL BACKS for Two Degrees are Tues Apr 7, 7-9pm
CALL BACKS for The Last Flight of the Mercenary are Wed Apr 8, 7-9pm
All auditions and call backs are in Theater Arts House, 275 S. Hill
(white house with a green door)
TO PREPARE for the auditions:
- - CHOOSE the play(s) and character(s) you are interested in auditioning for (see below for descriptions of plays and characters)
* * * STUDENTS and GRAD STUDENTS: please look in particular at the characters of BLAKE (male) and CLAIRE (female) for Flight of the Mercenary. These characters could be in their 20s and 30s. The rest of the characters in both plays are 40 - 50yo+
- - FIND the monologue(s) and scene(s) for your play(s) and character(s) (see below)
- - REHEARSE the monologue(s) carefully (not necessary to memorize). The director may also ask you to read a scene, so prepare for that, too
- - IF you have a contemporary audition monologue already prepared and memorized, please feel free to bring that as well. (Just let the producer know when you email to sign up for an audition time.
- - SIGN UP for a time slot by emailing arden.e.thomas@gmail.com with AUDITIONS in the subject headline. Please tell her your availability, the play(s), and the character(s), and she will assign you a time slot
- - COME to the audition at least 10 minutes early
If you have any questions, contact the producer, Arden Thomas, at arden.e.thomas@gmail.com
SPREAD THE WORD!!
TWO DEGREES by Tira Palmquist
A cool new play about frozen people on a thawing planet.
Emma Phelps is a paleoclimatologist, focusing on ice in Greenland. She sees first hand what we have wrought in terms of climate change, and now all she can think to do is continue to study, to amass data, to publish. She’s also a recent widow and, until now …. all she can do is study, to amass data, to publish. Now she’s asked to come to Washington, DC to testify in a Senate Committee regarding climate change legislation, and she finds more than just a little is breaking up under the strain of change.
Director Joshua Wolf Coleman is known for his acting roles in the films Multiple, Mr. President, and Hidalgo and such TV shows as How To Get Away with Murder, Castle, Scandal, Parenthood, and Grey’s Anatomy. Josh performed the role of Clay in a reading of "Two Degrees" at The Road Theater.
CHARACTERS:
Emma Phelps, PhD, 50. Paleoclimatologist
Clay Simpson, 40. Lobbyist for a multinational mining company.
Louise Allen, 50. Senator from Colorado. Old college classmate of Emma’s
Eric Wilson, 40-50. Senator Allen's Chief of Staff (played by the same actor playing Jeffrey and Malik)
Jeffrey Phelps, 50. Emma's late husband.
Malik Peterson, 40-40. The extreme weather carpenter at Summit Station, Greenland (played by the same actor playing Jeffrey and Wilson)
THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE MERCENARY by Karen Howes
A romantic comedy of science and love
At a bed and breakfast perched above the Saanich Inlet in British Columbia, a young woman’s plan to marry the perfect man is thrown off course when a physics professor constructs a time machine so that she may alter the circumstances of her future and discover what went wrong in her life. This is a play of science and love, Shakespeare, nights without stars, and the latest in quantum information theory.
Director Kathryn Bikle is well-known at Caltech for directing plays such as Gobble Up Stories, The Tempest, and Midsummer Night's Dream.
CHARACTERS
Kate Eveland -- A widowed physics professor with nothing in her life except science and a pending 40th birthday, so she’s a mess and consequently immersed in a scientific experiment to travel back in time so she can fix what went wrong in her past.
Martin Wells -- Kate’s brother n law who is haunted by the same tragedy that plagues Kate and whose search for himself has manifested itself in multiple careers and little fulfillment. He’s 52.
(We will not be auditioning for the character of MARTIN)
Claire Phillips - A young and vivacious bride-to-be from NYC with Asperger’s. The syndrome causes slight obsessions, uncanny aptitudes for particular subjects, and the inability to determine the correct response to certain stimuli; 25 yrs old.
Blake Fields -- A very handsome and rugged pilot; 25-35 years old.
Jules Mitchell -- A magistrate; 60+ in years.
