“The Nether” by Jennifer Haley, directed by Rachael Lindhart
September 16, 17, 23 & 24, 2016
3 men/2 women

**Auditions for The Nether will take place July 8th 6:00-8:00 and July 9th 2:00-4:30 at the Iowa City Public Library.  For more details, click here or check out our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1739406806297657/ 

The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. But when a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination. Winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Nether is both a serpentine crime drama and haunting sci-fi thriller that explores the consequences of living out our private dreams.

“Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Brian Tanner
December 9,10, 16 & 17, 2016
2 men/4 women

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, author of The Clean House and Eurydice. A work about how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering changes us—it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

“Antigone” by Mack Welkman, directed by Matt Brewbaker, Adeara Jean Maurice, and Krista Neumann
February 10, 11, 17 & 18, 2017
0 men/3-9 women

Version of the classic Antigone story (Antigone buries her dead brother who had lead a revolt against Thebes; such an act was considered a crime against the state) told through 3 women (who may be the three Fates). It is a short play intended to be repeated three times during the same performance. Our idea is to have three different directors do three different interpretations. They may or may not use the same women in their casts.

“Down the Road” by Lee Blessing, directed by Nate Sullivan
March 24, 25 & 31 and April 1, 2017
2 men/1 woman

DOWN THE ROAD centers on a convicted serial killer and the husband and wife writing team hired to help him write an account of his crimes. The killer, Bill Reach, has admitted to the murders of nineteen women, but there may have been more. Over many weeks of interviews, the couple—Dan and Iris Henniman—grow more and more uncertain of the ethics of what they are doing. Are they simply relating terrifying events, or are they helping readers consume rape, murder and mutilation as if they are consuming any other product of our society? Are they, in fact, helping to turn Bill Reach into a celebrity?

“Consider the Oyster” by David MacGregor, directed by Madonna Smith
May 12, 13, 19 & 20, 2017
3-4 men/2-3 women

When Gene breaks his leg after proposing to girlfriend Marisa, he begins to feel some odd changes. It turns out the oyster shell that the doctor left in his leg to assist with his healing is causing him to slowly transition into a female — just the way an oyster does. Can Gene learn to live his life as a different gender, and will he — or she — be able to feel the same for his fiancee? Consider the Oyster is a funny and surprising exploration of gender and our changeable human nature