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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#003399'>Auditions for <i>These Shining Lives</i> by Melanie Marnich<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#003399'>Directed by Cindy Brizzell-Bates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red'>AUDITIONS: Sunday, November 18<sup>th</sup> at 7pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Curtain Call Theatre, 210 Old Loudon Road, Latham<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>(</span><a href="http://www.curtaincalltheatre.com/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.curtaincalltheatre.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>All parts are open: 4 Women/ 2 Men<br>Auditions will be conducted with excerpts from the script. Please bring a resume and headshot (if possible).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Production Dates and Times:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Feb 22 – March 23 (performances on Thurs at 7:30pm, Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Rehearsals</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>: Begin early January; Typical rehearsal day/times include Saturday morning or afternoon, Sunday late morning or evening, and Mon-Wed 6:30-10pm but exact dates and times will be arranged based on the actors’ schedules.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Plot</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>: This play, set in the 1920s and 1930s, tells the story of the women sometimes called “the Radium Girls” who painted the face dials on clocks, watches and other items using “glow in the dark” paint containing radium. While at first radium was said to have the qualities of vitamins that make the body healthier, these women discovered first hand that radium exposure – much less ingestion – was deadly. But with no protection from the courts to ensure healthy work places and with their status as women in the 1920s-1930s, their pleas for attention to this horrific situation went unheard until the radium had ravaged their bodies. After seven years of court battles, the women finally won the law’s validation that radium exposure and ingestion had indeed served them all death sentences. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Characters:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Note:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <i>All Characters except Catherine play multiple roles including Reporter 1, Reporter 2, an Official, Judge 1, Judge 2, Son, Daughter, Company Doctor, Dr. Rowntree, Dr. Dalitsch, and Leonard Grossman. The suggested doubling is noted below but final decisions about doubling will be made after casting.</i> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Catherine Donohue</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> (mid 20s): Katie is a strong but sensitive woman. She is proud, hard-working, level-headed and honest. She is dedicated to her twin children and her loving husband, but when her family could use some additional income, her interest is piqued in working. She takes a job at a local factory and finds she has great talent in quick, accurate painting of face dials. Initially, her job is quite rewarding. She takes pride in her work and becomes close friends with women at the factory. At a time when women just won the right to vote, she enjoys the new social privileges that making her own money provides. But when her body starts hurting “from the inside out” she becomes convinced that something at the factory is making all of the women ill. She champions the women’s efforts to get the factory owners to acknowledge this serious health issue and then reluctantly leads their legal efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Frances</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> (mid-late 20s): Frances is one of the women who work at the factory. Her boss considers her to have the “moral backbone” of the women at the factory, but her friends know that she loves to gossip. Nonetheless, she is fun, loving, and full of energy – until the radium poisoning takes over her body. [Can also play Reporter 2, an Official.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Charlotte</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> (mid-late 20s, early 30s): Charlotte also works at the factory and, until Catherine discovers her own talent, Charlotte is the quickest, most accurate worker at the factory. She is fast-talking, spirited, and loves to keep people on their toes. She lives a bit on the edge for her time and circumstance, going to dance halls to drink, smoke and have a good time. But at the end of the day, she goes home to care for her mother. [Can also play Reporter 1]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Pearl</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> (mid-late 20s, early 30s): Pearl is the joke-teller at the factory. She brings a sense of humor to all situations with her bad jokes and loving spirit. Pearl is a good friend. [Can also play Daughter, Judge 2]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Tom Donohue</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> (mid-20s): Tom is Catherine’s devoted husband. Tom is a construction worker who spends his day high on the beams of buildings under construction. He works hard and appreciates the work his wife does both at home and at the factory. He is, however, sensitive to the standard gender roles of the 1920s and 1930s. In the end, though, he loves his wife above all things. [Can also play Dr. Rowntree, Dr. Dalitsch]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Mr. Reed</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> (40s-50s): Mr. Reed is the manager at the factory where Catherine, Frances, Charlotte and Pearl work. In the beginning of the play, he is a good man who seems to walk the fine line between authority and support of his workers. But he is also a small man in that when he sees the factory making his workers sick, he “toes the company line” rather than acknowledging the radium poisoning. [Can also play Radio Announcer, Company Doctor, Son, Judge 1, and Leonard Grossman]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>For more information, please call Curtain Call Theatre at 877-7529 or contact the director at </span><a href="mailto:cindy@batesny.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>cindy@batesny.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>