Auditions

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Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel is brought to the stage by Christopher Sergel. The story of Jean Louise Finch, who shares her memories of growing up in Maycomb, Alabama during the summer of 1935. Known as “Scout” as a young girl, the nine-year old’s world is turned upside down when her widowed father, lawyer Atticus Finch, defends a young black man accused of raping a white woman. As tensions erupt and neighbours take sides in the life-and-death case, it is Scout’s clear-eyed courage in the face of ignorance and bigotry that ultimately brings hope to a damaged community.

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The King of Hollywood, two mass murderers, a dying Playboy centrefold, a rinsed out ex-wife, a spoilt weeping teen –blood, guns – we’ve got it all.
Set in the Beverly Hills home of Oscar winning movie director Bruce Delamitri, Popcorn is a satirical comedy thriller with the firepower of a hit squad. When notorious killers Wayne and Scout interrupt Bruce’s passionate introduction to Brooke Daniels (a nude model AND actress, they want more than an autograph from their cinematic idol. Wayne intends to use Bruce’s art as justification for murder. Events are disrupted by the arrival of Bruce’s soon to be ex-wife, spoiled teenage daughter, and his producer. Depsite this, Wayne means to succeed – whatever the cost.

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Portrait of a working-class family living in Newcastle during World War II.

“This play is an unmitigated pleasure” Daily Express

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Everybody at Westfeild High School thinks they know what happened the day of the fire.  Fire exit opens in the aftermath as the community faces what appears to be a prank gone wrong.  But as the kids and adults open up about their lives through a series of poignant and often funny monologues, Fire Exit is a powerful ensemble piece that proves things, and people, aren’t always what they seem.

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Synopsis – Set in a hotel room in Mumbai, retired American porn star, Arizona Snow, awaits the arrival of Martin, a young Australian journalist, to discuss her recent New York Times bestseller.

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Written by Brendan Cowell (Rueben Guthrie). This is a story about an odd couple of housemates. Ben (a depressed writer) and Marcus (hipster dating app designer), the terrier they co-own and the woman they encounter in a London park.

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A Flea in Her Ear is world-renowned as the funniest and most famous of all French farces. It’s perfectly formed in its comic timing, shamelessly saucy and completely bonkers. We’re in Paris, 1908. After years of married bliss, Madame Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband is having an affair. In an effort to catch him in the act she causes a lot more trouble than she bargained for. Spiraling into a high-octane storm of sexual intrigue, mistaken identities and bed-revolving mayhem, a cavalcade of characters get in on the act. Some want sex and revenge, several want to preserve their honor. All want to avoid being shot. Nobody gets any sleep. You will laugh out loud.

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In 1873, a young Vincent Van Gogh rents a room in the house of an English widow in Brixton. Based on fact, the play concerns the journey of the 20 year old Vincent Van Gogh, a clerk in the family art dealership.

He is absurd at times, but passionate and endearing, wrestling with his Calvinist upbringing as he shakes the foundations of his relationships. It is amazing that Vincent, the father of “Impressionist Art”, did not sell a single artwork in his lifetime.

This is a love story presented in a fascinating, funny, and deeply moving play that is quiet, contemplative and with a tragic conclusion.

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The Misanthrope is a farcical satirical social commentary where the wit is in the words.

This production will be set in the early 1960s and the comedy will be highlighted to reflect this era. There will be some classic surf/mambo style dance sections between scenes, think ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ VS ‘Psycho Beach Party’ in style.

SYNOPSIS (Wikipedia)
Much to the horror of his friends and companions, Alceste rejects la politesse, the social conventions of the seventeenth-century French salon. His refusal to “make nice” makes him tremendously unpopular and he laments his isolation in a world he sees as superficial and base, saying early in Act I, “… Mankind has grown so base, / I mean to break with the whole human race”.

Despite his convictions, however, Alceste cannot help but love the flighty and vivacious Célimène, a consummate flirt whose wit and frivolity epitomize the courtly manners that Alceste despises. Though he constantly reprimands her, Célimène refuses to change, charging Alceste with being unfit for society.

Despite his sour reputation as “the misanthrope”, Alceste does have women pining for him, particularly the prudish Arsinoé and the honest Eliante. Though he acknowledges their superior virtues, his heart still lies with Célimène. His deep feelings for her primarily serve to counter his negative expressions about mankind, since the fact that he has such feelings includes him amongst those he so fiercely criticizes.

When Alceste insults a sonnet written by the powerful noble, Oronte, he is called to stand trial. Refusing to dole out false compliments, he is charged and humiliated, and resolves on self-imposed exile.

Arsinoé, in trying to win his affections, shows him a love letter Célimène wrote to another suitor. He discovers that Célimène has been leading him on. She has written identical love letters to numerous suitors (including to Oronte) and broken her vow to favor him above all others. He gives her an ultimatum: he will forgive her and marry her if she runs away with him to exile. Célimène refuses, believing herself too young and beautiful to leave society and all her suitors behind. Philinte, for his part, becomes betrothed to Eliante. Alceste then decides to exile himself from society, and the play ends with Philinte and Eliante running off to convince him to return.

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Set in an isolated cottage on the Thames Estuary in 1885, a former actress, Miss Fiske, and her long-time companion and housemate, Ellen, become involved in competing schemes that grow more sinister after the arrival at their home of Ellen’s two sisters. A surprise turn of events will keep you glued to the unfolding story that has been described as one of the best stage thrillers of its time.
First staged in 1939 as England was starting WWII, London was in a blackout, and most theatres were closed it was an enormous hit, running for a total of 301 performances.