POP!
Show Info
Title | POP! | ||
Playwright | Cianon Jones | ||
Director | TBD | ||
Stage Manager | Reading SM TBD | ||
Category | New Play Festival, Staged Reading | ||
First Rehearsal | TBD | ||
Performances | May 5th | ||
Roles to be cast | Age (Presentation) | Gender (Presentation) | Description |
Treasure | Should feel aged | any | A fir tree |
Bind | Grown but not nearly old | any | An oak tree |
Gift | Grown but not nearly old | any | A birch tree |
Gwo | Grown but not nearly old | any | A willow tree |
Auburn | Old enough to know enough | any | An obsessive human |
Go-Go | Old enough to know better | any | A fearful human |
Memory | Young in feeling and knowledge | any | A caterpillar who eventually becomes a butterfly |
Roadkill Carcass |
| any | A dying opossum |
Mudda | At a twisted age | any | A murderous deer on the loose |
Rain | Freshly made | any | A rain drop falling from the sky |
Picidae Aves | anything | any | A woodpecker |
Owl | anything | any | An owl |
Shroom #1 | Young & scrappy | any | A possibly poison mushroom |
Shroom #2 | Young & scrappy | any | A possibly poison mushroom |
Shroom #3 | Young & scrappy | any | A possibly poison mushroom |
A Sapling | newborn | any | A sapling of an unknown tree |
Forest Chorus | various | any | All of nature’s energies in the forest; everyone is the forest chorus |
Synopsis | POP! explores the proximity of humanity and nature through a forest that is very much alive and deliriously in danger. | ||
Notices | Mentions/portrayals/inferences to: carnage, murder, human cruelty, animal cruelty, blood, death, drug use, destruction, questionable things of the natural and unnatural world | ||
Important Dates/Holidays | 3/30 Ougadi/Ugaadi, 3/30 Eid al-Fitr (End of Ramadan)*, 4/4 Qing Ming Jie, 4/6 Ram Navami, 4/10 Mahavir Jayanti, 4/12-4/20 Passover*, 4/13 Theravada (New Year), 4/18 Good Friday, 4/18 Good Friday (Orthodox), 4/20 Easter, 4/20 Easter (Orthodox),5/1 Beltane-Samhain, 5/5 Cinco De Mayo, 5/11 Mother's Day, 5/12 Vesak- Buddha Day, 5/12-16 Spring Finals, 5/17 Commencement, 5/17 Armed Forces Day, 5/26 Memorial Day (Observed), 5/29 Ascension Day, 5/31 Duan Wu Jie, 6/1-3 Shavuot*, 6/8 Pentecost, 6/14 Flag Day, 6/15 Father's Day, 6/19 Juneteenth (Fed. Observed), 6/20 Summer Solstice-Litha, 6/23 Pentecost (Orthodox) | ||
Cast List
POP! Cast list
| ROLE | ACTOR |
| AUBURN | Zhen Rammelsburg |
| GO-GO | Zoe Hoffenberg |
| TREASURE | Samantha Burds |
| BIND | Stephanie Decker |
| GIFT | Soren Martin |
| GWO | Ali Khan |
| MEMORY | Ella Sirna |
| ROADKILL CARCASS | Sven Bode |
| MUDDA | Alicia Philadelphia |
| RAIN | Jason Vernon |
| PICIDAE AVES | Carden Green |
| OWL | Alex Shipman |
| SHROOM #1 | Julie Englander |
| SHROOM #2 | Erin Detlesfen |
| SHROOM #3 | Haydon Bailey |
| SAPLING | Mazzy Sleep |
| FOREST CHORUS/Stage Directions | Frances Dapier |
| FOREST CHORUS/Stage Directions | Lucas Nelson |
Thank you to everyone who auditioned! Please email Cianon Jones (cianon-jones@uiowa.edu) to accept or decline the role by 5pm Monday, March 31st.
Please note cast members will need to attend an intimacy workshop on Wednesday, April 2nd at 7pm in Macvey theater.
Contact
Stage Manager: TBD
NPF Production Stage Manager: savanha-moore@uiowa.edu