Auditions for “Constellations”
by Nick Payne

When: September 11 from 7-10pm and September 13 from 7-8pm (NEW!)
Where: Allegheny RiverTrail Park
Who: Directed by Caitlin Dobronz

Please join us at auditions for our fall production of “Constellations” by Nick Payne. Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue that best showcases your range as an actor whether that be comedic, dramatic, or seriocomic. Can’t make it in person? Video submissions can be sent to ConstellationsRTC@gmail.com and will be accepted through 6pm on September 11. Registration is preferred, but walk-ins will be seen if time allows. Callbacks will be held on September 13 if selected.

Performance Dates

The show will run November 14-16 and 21-23 at 8pm at Allegheny RiverTrail Park in Aspinwall, just across the river from Pittsburgh. The venue is indoors and has heating/cooling and other amenities.

Synopsis

Marianne meets Roland. Marianne is an astrophysicist, and Roland keeps bees. How will it go, and come, and go? Come again? In an infinite number of universes, anything can happen. Which is good, because Marianne is running out of time. Premiered at the Royal Court in 2012, Nick Payne’s tale of love, loss and honey has played to packed houses in the West End, on Broadway, and further afield.

Constellations is a play about possibilities, about different outcomes from the same starting point, about paths taken and paths not taken. Marianne, an astrophysicist, explores the theory of the multiverse – that there are an infinite number of universes, each differing slightly or greatly from our own. The play's structure reflects this, as the audience is presented with multiple versions of the same events, varying in their outcomes. Also, events do not necessarily occur in a linear temporal sequence.

Funny, poignant and unorthodox, this celebrated contemporary play comprises over fifty, mostly very short, scenes interspersed by changes in lighting state which indicate change of ‘universe’. It offers exciting and challenging opportunities to the actors. 

Roles

Marianne (20s to 50s): Astrophysicist. Vivacious and playful when we first meet her but has to come to terms with the development of a brain tumour, which sometimes affects her speech, and with its various prognoses.

Roland (20s to 50s): Beekeeper. Divorced and fairly hard up. More easy-going, and presumably less bright, than Marianne.

Questions? Please email ConstellationsRTC@gmail.com.