2010/11 Season Audition

1^st Play:-  “Run For Your Wife”  by Ray Cooney         10^th to 16^th Oct 2010. 
                                    Director Mike Donohue

       M6 (young, middle age) F2 (20s) Composite setting: two living rooms
         John Smith is a London cabbie with his own taxi, a wife in Streatham, a wife in
        Wimbledon and a knife-edge schedule! He has been a successful, if tired, bigamist for
        three years, but one day he is taken to hospital with mild concussion. In the ensuing
        complications, aided by an unwilling Stanley, John tries bravely to cope with a
        succession of well-meaning but prying policemen, two increasingly irate wives and
        others, until he manfully confesses the truth.

2^nd Play:-   “Separate Tables”  by Terence Rattigan     28^th Nov to 5^th Dec 2010.  
                                    Director Elizabeth Vernon

M3 F8. A dining room, a lounge. Period 1950s.
            The typical South Coast Hotel Beauregarde is peopled by the old, the lonely and the
            indigent. The manageress, Miss Cooper, is unable to remain aloof from their troubles.
            In Table No.1 she attempts to help John Malcolm and his ex-wife Ann, who have
            ruined each other, find salvation together. In Table No.2 Major Pollock and Miss
            Railton-Bell are misfits and their despair draws them together. Miss Cooper gives
            them the courage to face life.

 3^rd Play:-  “Albert Nobbs”  by Gordon Steel                 23^rd to 29^th Jan 2011.
                                    Director Mike Russell

M1 F2-4. Interior Unit Set
            After a life of hard graft, retirement isn’t at all what Albert Nobbs had expected.
            Instead of relaxing and taking things at a leisurely pace, the curmudgeonly Albert
            finds himself bored and nagged senseless by his wife Connie. Albert’s world is soon
            turned upside-down by the sudden death of Connie in a road accident and he struggles
            to find a reason to carry on – until Connie returns as a ghost and sets about organising
            a fulfilling retirement for Albert, including matchmaking with her best friend Rose.
            Despite Albert’s protestations, he gradually learns to overcome his reluctance and
            begins to explore new opportunities so he and Connie can continue with their journeys
            in different directions.

 4^th Play:-  “Quartemain’s Terms” by Simon Gray        13^th to 19^th Mar 2011.
                                    Director Ryan Ellershaw

M5 F2. A staffroom.
            Set in the 1960s in a school of English for foreigners in Cambridge, this is an often
            humorous but ultimately moving account of several years in the lives of seven teachers.

 5^th Play:- “Don’t Dress for Dinner”  by Marc Camoletti adapted by Robin Hawdon   22 ^nd to 28^th May 2011. 
                                    Director Garth Jones

M3 (35, any age) F3 (30s). A Living-room.
            Bernard is hoping to have a weekend in the country with his chic Parisian mistress,
            Suzy. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook, is in the process of packing his wife
            Jacqueline off to her mother, and has invited along his best friend Robert as a suitable
            alibi. It’s foolproof. What could possibly go wrong? Well . . . . Hilarious confusion
            piles upon hilarious confusion as Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed!

OPEN AUDITIONS At The Club Theatre in the Rehearsal Room

 Tuesday 1^st June 2010 from 7:30pm Plays 1 & 5 –
                    “Run for Your Wife” and “Don’t Dress for Dinner”.

Thursday 3^rd June 2010 from 7:30pm Plays 2, 3 & 4 –
                    “Separate Tables”, “Albert Nobbs” & Quartermaine’s Terms”.

Tuesday 8^th June 2010 at 7:30pm All 5 Plays –
                    For all those who could not make the previous two nights, plus those parts not cast by the directors.