Auditions for “This Murder Was Staged” on January 4 & 7, 2025
Saturday January 4, 2-3:30pm
Tuesday January 7, 6-7:30pm
Written by Patrick Greene and Jason Pizzarello
Directed by Sue Kelly
A comedic murder mystery play-within-a-play where everyone, including the audience, is identified as a suspect.
Many of the roles are flexible as to age and gender. Looking for actors between 16 and 90!
Performances: June 13-22, 2025
We look forward to seeing you at auditions!
Saturday January 4, 2:00-3:30pm
Tuesday January 7, 6:00-7:30pm
Williamsville Hall
35 Dover Rd, Williamsville VT
Questions about getting involved?
Contact Kelly: kellyandthedogs@gmail.com
A Call for Acts!
Please let us know by January 20 if you’d like to do a song or two, a sketch, a monologue, improv, magic tricks…
You’d prepare on your own –if you’d like a director, just whistle–and then a couple weeks before opening we’ll have one or two rehearsals and a dress rehearsal.
Dan DeWalt will accompany again; he is always game to meet with folks individually–or as a duet or trio!– to work on numbers.
PERFORMANCES Friday 2/14 and Saturday 2/15, 7PM; Sunday 2/16, 5PM in the Williamsville Hall.
Questions? Need more info? write Annie Landenberger, verbatimvt@gmail.com.
OPEN AUDITIONS for The Freeing of Mollie Steimer January 24, 25, 27
by Patrick Keppel to be produced and directed by Keppel and Annie Landenberger to commemorate the RRP’s 10th anniversary in August 2025.
Jan 24, Fri 3-5:30
Jan 25, Sat 10-12:30
Jan 27, Mon 4-7
Should none of those times be convenient for an auditioner, please contact directors at emails below.
Proposed performances: Aug 15-17; 22-24, 2025
There are 21 roles of various ages which could be played, with doubling, by 12 actors or more.
About the play…
The Freeing of Mollie Steimer is based on the life of a woman who lived in the United States from 1913 to 1923. It presents episodes in Steimer’s life from her arrival in the US to her deportation to dramatize the psychological difficulty of maintaining ideals—or of expressing or even glimpsing one’s basic humanity—within an utterly corrupt society.
Mollie’s goal is to be perfectly free so that she can better help create the perfectly free society aimed at by anarchism, yet to do so she must shed every one of the ties that bind her to the world as it is, no matter how painful, futile, or apparently counter-productive that shedding may be.
The play thus not only brings to light the inspirational story of a woman who is as yet relatively obscure, but also provides a historical lens through which we can better perceive current political controversies and divisions without contemporary tribal markers.
In part to dramatize this tension, the play’s naturalistic elements are disrupted throughout by various Brechtian elements, music, and shadow-puppetry or on-screen sequences, and a fluid, trickster-tempter-shadow figure (The Bug).”
The play was written in 1997 and received a staged reading at the Boston Playwright’s Theater in May 1999. It has since been seen in parts at various venues, but the RRP production will be its premiere.
For more information, write verbatimvt@gmail.com and/or patrick.keppel@gmail.com