Auditions

9 Feb 2025 - 19 May 2025
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THE WINTER’S TALE

Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group Inc.
Auditions: 15 Feb 2025 @ 11:00am,
17 Feb 2025 @ 7:00pm

Author: William Shakespeare

Director: Drew Mason

Genre: Drama

Agent: N/A

Synopsis

Jealousy. Betrayal. Retribution. Fate. Forgiveness?

Convinced that his wife Hermoine, the Queen of Sicilia, is pregnant by his closest friend Polixenes, the King of Bohemia, Leontes, King of Sicilia enacts a plot to destroy everyone he believes has caused him harm. But will it cost him all he holds dear? Has he chosen to ignore fate and instead destroy himself and his kingdom?

One of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale is a powerful exploration of the consequences of jealousy. Combing elements of tragedy and comedy, and spanning over sixteen years, this epic play is magical.

This production is set in the lavish court of Sicilia during the jazz age of the 1920s and travels to the Great Depression era court of Bohemia. With music by Cole Porter, and some bawdy physical comedy, The Winter’s Tale is sure to dazzle and amaze.

Characters (Ages are suggested playing ages—not fixed in most cases).

Audition Dates and Times:

11:00am on:

  • Sat 15th Feb 2025

7:00pm on:

  • Mon 17th Feb 2025

Performances: 29 May 2025 - 7 Jun 2025

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Grey Nomad

Warrandyte Theatre Company
Auditions: 21 Feb 2025 @ 7:30pm

Author: Dan Lee

Director: Dan Lee

Genre: Comedy

Agent: By arrangement with the author

Synopsis

Jim dedicated to a quiet unfettered retirement is on the road with Helen in their RV, peacefully looping around Australia and living a circular dream – clockwise. Despite efforts to keep themselves to themselves, their peaceful idyll is challenged by the brash, outgoing and determinedly low-brow Val and her spirituality seeking husband, Garry, also heading clockwise.

Between Cable Beach and Darwin foreshore Jim and Helen become drawn into Val and Garry’s liberating sphere. Subsequent trips see them catching up and building what at first seemed an unlikely friendship.

Did I say that Val and Garry are naturists?

Grey Nomad is an original and lively comedy that brings to light some home truths but at its core, focusses on enduring and endearing love .

Audition Dates and Times:

7:30pm on:

  • Fri 21st Feb 2025

Performances: 22 Aug 2025 - 6 Sep 2025

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Proof

Peridot Theatre Inc
Auditions: 23 Feb 2025 @ 6:00pm,
24 Feb 2025 @ 7:30pm

Author: David Auburn

Director: Damian Jones

Genre: Drama

Agent: Origis Theatrical

Synopsis

The play focuses on Robert’s daughter Catherine, who has cared for her father as his mathematical acuity declined due to mental instability and illness. He was previously a professor of mathematics at Chicago University. Catherine has put her life on hold to care for Robert, while her sister has moved on to a successful career in New York.
Catherine is also possessed of significant mathematical talent, without others being aware of her ability, but also has concerns that she is suffering from mental illness. Her sister Claire, wants her to move to New York, where Catherine can start afresh under her sister’s eye.
Upon Robert’s death, his PhD student Hal discovers a ground-breaking mathematical proof in Robert’s office, which Catherine claims is her work. Hal seeks to determine whether the mathematical proof is intellectually robust, and then its authorship.
The questions arise – is Catherine capable of this work, and can she prove it?

Audition Dates and Times:

6:00pm on:

  • Sun 23rd Feb 2025

7:30pm on:

  • Mon 24th Feb 2025

Performances: 16 May 2025 - 25 May 2025

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Knife Edge

Beaumaris Theatre Inc.
Auditions: 26 Feb 2025 @ 7:00pm,
1 Mar 2025 @ 2:00pm

VDL Awards Entry: 2025

Author: Alison Campbell Rate

Director: Deborah Fabbro

Genre: Drama

Agent: Alison Campbell Rate

Synopsis

Every day comes down to moments. Moments of decision, or change. Moments that fall between ‘before’ and ‘after’. Moments where you’re balanced on the edge of who you are and who you might be. Do you reach for it or don’t you?

Knife Edge explores pivotal moments in life, in relationships, and in self-discovery as the characters dissect, carve up and attempt to cut through to a deeper understanding of themselves and each other.

Audition Dates and Times:

2:00pm on:

  • Sat 1st Mar 2025

7:00pm on:

  • Wed 26th Feb 2025

Performances: 9 May 2025 - 24 May 2025

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The Children

Mordialloc Theatre Co. Inc.
Auditions: 2 Mar 2025 @ 2:00pm,
3 Mar 2025 @ 8:00pm

Author: Lucy Kirkwood

Director: Peter Newling

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

In a small English coastal cottage, former nuclear scientists Hazel and her husband Robin are enjoying a quiet retirement, despite living just outside the exclusion zone of a dangerously crumbling nuclear power plant.
She practices her yoga, while he tends to his cows and, bar the rolling blackouts, their lives seem mostly untouched by the chaos outside – until a visit from an old friend and colleague shakes their
peaceful existence, forcing them to confront their secret jealousies
and their past and future.

Audition Dates and Times:

2:00pm on:

  • Sun 2nd Mar 2025

8:00pm on:

  • Mon 3rd Mar 2025

Performances: 22 May 2025 - 31 May 2025

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Macbeth

Malvern Theatre Co. Inc.
Auditions: 9 Mar 2025 @ 6:00pm,
10 Mar 2025 @ 7:00pm

Author: William Shakespeare

Director: David McLean

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

“Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires.” A valiant and trusted soldier, Macbeth is propelled down a dark and treacherous path when an encounter with supernatural beings bring to the surface secret dreams of power. Spurred on by his ruthless wife, he embarks on a terrifying quest to get the Scottish crown. But once got, it must be kept. Macbeth’s determination leads him into a nightmare world of murder and madness, taking the country to the very brink of catastrophe.
Shakespeare’s most thrilling story of unchecked ambition, witches and ghosts, castles and swordfights, is a harrowing exploration of crime and guilt, power and corruption. Malvern Theatre Company’s production of Macbeth will excite all lovers of this classic play.

Audition Dates and Times:

6:00pm on:

  • Sun 9th Mar 2025

7:00pm on:

  • Mon 10th Mar 2025

Performances: 20 Jun 2025 - 5 Jul 2025

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Warrandyte Theatre Company
Auditions: 12 Mar 2025 @ 7:00pm,
15 Mar 2025 @ 1:00pm

Author: Oscar Wild

Director: James Banger

Genre: Comedy

Synopsis

Jack and Algy are wealthy young men and respectable members of society. Or so it seems. Behind the façade, both lead double lives, escaping social obligations whenever they choose. Idle merriment and triviality are rudely interrupted, however, by the question of romance. Soon, Jack and Algy find themselves between town and country, trying to maintain their respective deceptions. False identities, cucumber sandwiches, and buttered muffins abound, not to mention a very famous handbag.

Oscar Wilde’s final play premiered on Valentine’s Day 1895, at St James’s Theatre in London. Since then, his dazzling wit and delightful wordplay have rendered this satire of Victorian manners absolutely timeless. This production also performs 130 years after the Australian premiere in Melbourne.

Audition Dates and Times:

1:00pm on:

  • Sat 15th Mar 2025

7:00pm on:

  • Wed 12th Mar 2025

Performances: 13 Jun 2025 - 28 Jun 2025

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

Heidelberg Theatre Company
Auditions: 16 Mar 2025 @ 7:00pm,
18 Mar 2025 @ 7:00pm

Author: Mike Bartlett

Director: George Werther

Genre: Comedy

Agent: ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company

Synopsis

Sandra and Kenneth are born into the optimistic “baby-boomer” generation, ready to “change the world”. We follow their lives from the heady 60’s into the challenging 90’s, with their adolescent children seeking new directions. We then meet them in the new millennium, as they and their now adult children have very different needs and conflicting world views. The baby-boomers discover life is not a bed of roses.

Mike Bartlett has brilliantly and humorously painted the story of the highs and lows of the post-war generations, leaving us with clever insights, much food for thought, and many unanswered questions.

Love, Love, Love has “a galloping satirical wit that pulls you along, happy and appalled, through the decades.”

Audition Dates and Times:

7:00pm on:

  • Sun 16th Mar 2025
  • Tue 18th Mar 2025

Performances: 4 Jul 2025 - 19 Jul 2025

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Home, I’m Darling

The 1812 Theatre Ltd.
Auditions: 6 Apr 2025 @ 6:00pm,
7 Apr 2025 @ 7:30pm

Author: Laura Wade

Director: Amy Calvert

Genre: Comedy

Agent: An Amateur production by arrangement with ORiGiN Theatrical Pty Ltd

Synopsis

Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn’t as easy as it looks…
Home, I’m Darling is Laura Wade’s new dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife.

Audition Dates and Times:

6:00pm on:

  • Sun 6th Apr 2025

7:30pm on:

  • Mon 7th Apr 2025

Performances: 7 Aug 2025 - 30 Aug 2025

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The Humans

Malvern Theatre Co. Inc.
Auditions: 13 Apr 2025 @ 7:00pm,
14 Apr 2025 @ 7:00pm

Author: Stephen Karam

Director: Nicky Neville-Jones

Genre: Drama

Agent: By special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection

Synopsis

The Humans is a poignant, award-winning drama (Tony Awards, Best Play) that, with humour and compassion explores the tensions and bonds in family life today. In Brigid’s run-down New York apartment, with bad wi-fi and strange noises upstairs, the Blake family comes together to celebrate Thanksgiving, bringing with them their anxieties, fears, and hidden struggles. But as they cook and eat, bicker and joke, darkness begins to fall and long buried tensions and secrets start to emerge. Plus, the strange noises upstairs may not be as innocent as they thought!
The Humans is warm, funny, uplifting and unsettling. Malvern Theatre Company is proud to present the Victorian premiere of this modern masterpiece, dubbed “Kind, rich and beautiful” (Chicago Tribune).

Audition Dates and Times:

7:00pm on:

  • Sun 13th Apr 2025
  • Mon 14th Apr 2025

Performances: 22 Aug 2025 - 6 Sep 2025

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