UPCOMING AUDITIONS
RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN
By Gina Gionfriddo
Directed by Peter Gelblum
Audition Dates:
Sunday, February 10, 6:00-8:00 PM, Park Hall, Ben Lomond
Monday, February 11, 7:00-9:00 PM, Center Stage, Santa Cruz
If the director does not know your work, please prepare a one-minute modern monologue. Otherwise, be prepared to read from the script. A perusal script is available by contacting the director at: pbgelblum@gmail.com
Callbacks (if necessary) – February 12, 7:00-9:00 PM, Center Stage, Santa Cruz
Roles Available:
Catherine – early 40’s; smart, sexy, single, successful scholar and author on feminist studies
Don – early 40’s; college dean, Gwen’s husband, no ambition, smokes weed and watches porn
Gwen – early 40’s, housewife, Don’s wife and mother of two kids, unhappy with Don and life
Alice – 65-75; Catherine’s mother, traditional, concerned about Catherine being single
Avery (female) – 18-22; college student, smart, seeking, sharp-edged
Performance Dates:
(Fridays & Saturdays, and one Thursday, at 8 PM, Sundays at 2 PM)
May 10, 11
May 16, 17, 18, 19
May 24, 25, 26
May 31, June 1, 2
Rehearsal Dates:
Generally, Monday to Thursday Evenings, 7-10 PM
March 18 – May 9
Location TBD, depending in part on the cast. Last 4-5 weeks will be at Park Hall
About the Play:
A Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama. Also called “one of the top 10 plays of 2012” by Entertainment Weekly and “intensely smart and immensely funny” by the New York Times. After grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose opposite paths. Catherine built a career as a rock-star academic, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in polar opposite ways, each woman covets the other’s life, commencing a dangerous game of musical chairs – the prize being Gwen’s husband, Don. With searing insight and trademark wit, this dramedy is an unflinching look at gender politics in the wake of 20th-century feminist ideals.
