[NEohioPAL] AUDITIONS for The Half Life of Marie Curie at Clague Playhouse, directed by Anne McEvoy

[Clague Playhouse]

*Audition Notice: *
*The Half Life of Marie Curie *
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Anne McEvoy

*AUDITIONS: *Tuesday, November 26 and Wednesday, November 27 from 7PM-9PM
at Clague Playhouse (1371 Clague Rd, Westlake, OH 44145)

*STORY:* In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her
discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object
of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with the married Frenchman Paul
Langevin, all but erasing her achievements from public memory. Weakened and
demoralized by the press lambasting her as a “foreign” Jewish temptress and
a homewrecking traitor, Marie agrees to join her friend and colleague
Hertha Ayrton, an electromechanical engineer and suffragette, at her summer
home in England. *The Half-Life of Marie Curie* 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.*“A fast-paced, frisky, feminist crowd pleaser…80
minutes of wit and wisdom powered by two turn-of-the-century female STEM
stars…a powerhouse theatrical opportunity for two, middle-aged actresses.”*
*Characters:* 2 women*MARIE CURIE:* 40 – 50 yr. of age. Slight Polish
dialect. A French national…and 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(4) and Eve (7) and was widowed in 1906 when her husband
died tragically.*HERTHA AYRTON:* Mid to late 50’s. Refined British dialect
but she’s not above using strong language. 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 who changed her name from Sarah to Hertha after a Swinburne poem
about a goddess of the earth.Please come prepared with a short (90 second
max) monologue and be prepared to read from the script. Scripts are
available for 3 days at the Clague Playhouse Box Office for a $10
refundable deposit.  All perusal scripts must be returned by Saturday, Nov.
23, 2024.  Headshots and/or resumes greatly appreciated but not required.*NOTE:
If Anne has directed you in a previous play, no need to prepare a monologue.
Information can also be found on the Clague Playhouse website at
https://clagueplayhouse.org/index.php/auditions/.

Clague Playhouse, Inc.

1371 Clague Road

Westlake, OH 44145

*info at ClaguePlayhouse.org <info at clagueplayhouse.org>*

440-331-0403

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