Audition Notice
River City Community Players is pleased to announce auditions for our Fall production of Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory. Auditions are scheduled for September 3-4 from 7-9pm. Those wishing to audition are encouraged to sign up though walk-ins are also welcome. Callbacks will be held, if needed, on Friday, September 5th at 7pm. Readings will be from sides.
Auditions are at Gayton Kirk Presbyterian Church, 11421 Gayton Road, Henrico, Virginia, 23238. Please either send your headshot (or recent selfie) and resume to brandystevens434@gmail.com or bring a printed copy of each to the audition. If sending your headshot and resume digitally, please send each as separate files attached to the email. Make sure to include your full name.
Rehearsals will begin in September 2025.
There will be 6 total performances between November 7 and November 15.
All performances will be held at Gayton Kirk Presbyterian. No performers are paid.
About the Play
In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece for 9 to 10 actors, who play more than 30 parts—friends, co-workers, lovers, relatives, attorneys, scientists, consumer advocates, and myriad interested bystanders. Called a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science.
Character Breakdown
Director Alex Martin seeks a strong ensemble of AT LEAST 3 women in their 20's, 2 women ages 30-50, and 4 men ages 30-60 to play the following characters:
Actor 1: Grace
Actor 2: Kathryn/Board Member 1/Shopgirl/Society Woman/Harriet
Actor 3: Irene/Miss Wiley/Board Member 2/Photographer/Mrs. Michaels
Actor 4: Sob Sister/Clerk/Elderly Widow/Mrs. Fryer/Macneil
Actor 5: Mrs. Roeder/Madame Curie/Customer/Board Member 3
Actor 6: Lee/Drinker/Bailey/Flinn/Male Shopper/Court/Lovesick Cowboy
Actor 7: Tom/Reporter/Berry/Knef
Actor 8: Markley/Von Sochocky/Store Owner/Venecine Salesman/Martland
Actor 9: Roeder
Note that more than 9 actors may be cast at the director's discretion.