THE RADIANT Submission - Red Fern Theatre Company Auditions

THE RADIANT - Submit Photo / Resume for NYC Appointments

Red Fern Theatre Company (NYC) Seasonal Showcase Code pending approval

Writer: Shirley Lauro

Executive Artistic Director: Melanie Moyer Williams

Managing Director: Ken Hall

Director: Melanie Moyer Williams

First Rehearsal: January 17, 2013

Performances: February 21-March 10, 2013. At the Theatre at the 14th Street Y

Set one hundred years ago in France, THE RADIANT centers on the true, tempestuous life of the brilliant Madame Marie Curie. Widowed with two young children, she becomes involved with her young married assistant, rocking Paris, and nearly ruining her extraordinary career and her very life. All the while, she isolates her discovery of radium and earns her second Nobel Prize -- revolutionizing science forever, as she ushers both “The Atomic Age” and the first cure for cancer.

MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE

FEMALE; Polish, but in France many years. Late 30’s- mid-40s. Ethereal beauty – ash blond, small, graceful, piercing eyes. Brilliant, unique, complex woman of great strength, drive. Can be severe, steely, but emotionally vulnerable.

KATARINA

17. FEMALE; MARIE’S niece from Warsaw. Pretty, funny, strong spirited but not contemporary teen – rather of era when young people ruled by adults. Loveable, impulsive, dramatic.

PAUL LANGEVIN

MALE; Late 20s – mid 30’s. Handsome, youthful, French. Brilliant but naïve, sensual man. Repressed, yearns to break out

1 MALE ACTOR:

To play the following roles

• CHIEF PAYMASTER OF THE SORBONNE –MALE, Late middle-age. Epitome of bureaucrat, a lecher.
• PROFESSOR WILBOIS –MALE, Middle-aged. Physics professor at Sorbonne. Kindly, loveable. Somewhat absent minded
• LORD KELVIN – MALE; Middle-aged. Physics Professor, University of Edinburgh. A Scotsman. Pompous, blustery, condescending.