AUDITIONS for FIRST DEGREE'S MURDER! 🐏👩🏽‍🎓🥀

First Degree's Murder (Week 6 Corpus Mainshow) is looking for a cast! We are seeking six actors to bring this feminist farce to the stage.

First Degree's Murder is looking to cast six actors to bring this piece of new student writing to the Corpus Stage in Lent Week 6!

Send us your self-tapes by 23:59 on 25th January 2025. Choose the character you’d like to read for, and send us a self-tape by 23:59 on 25th January. Some of the roles have two extracts, some have just one - if you’re reading for a part with two then please send us both! We may then invite you for an in-person callback and chemistry read within the next few days, for which we will send you the scenes in advance. We might ask you to read for a different character than the one you’d previously auditioned for.

Send all self-tapes to hw621@cam.ac.uk, with your name and the character you’re auditioning for in the subject line.

Audition pack: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-tT8-MS1GKyh-l4vZ3_UP3gSz96M8UA31HwL9X55VGw/edit?usp=sharing

Note: Some roles have specific requirements for casting, please take this into account when considering who to audition for!

PLOT SUMMARY

Four girls, a sheep, a corpse, and a vote that could change everything. What could possibly go wrong?

December 1947, days before the University of Cambridge will vote on whether to allow women to receive degrees. The women’s colleges buzz with anticipation, aware this could change everything for them, but also that the stakes are sky-high. So when Florence accidentally runs over an infamously misogynistic fellow with her bicycle, the choice seems obvious: cover up the manslaughter by any means necessary. After all, what’s hiding a corpse in a cupboard for a few days when weighed against finally getting degrees for Cambridge women? As Florence and her friends Betty, Celia, and Lyla undertake increasing farcical measures to prevent anyone - from the university itself, to a potential love interest - finding out, they reckon with the university’s ingrained prejudices, and question whether one vote can really undo seven centuries of control by grumpy old men. Sometimes, pushing for change can take sisterhood, a little criminal activity, and... a sheep?

Contact hw621@cam.ac.uk before 25th Jan 2025 23:59 for more details.