Williamstown Little Theatre Inc.
Author: Jules Verne, Dramatised by Toby Hulse
Director: Peter Newling
Genre: Comedy
Agent: Toby Hulse
Synopsis
Jules Vernes’ 260 page, 1872 masterpiece is being brought to life on the WLT stage.
We’ll depart London to Dover to Paris to Turin to Brindisi to Bombay to Calcutta to Hong Kong to Yokohama to San Fransisco to New York to Newfoundland to Queenstown Ireland and finally back to London.
We’ll travel via steamer, train, hansom cab, elephant and (according to David Niven) hot air balloon.
The question is – How on earth can all that be done on WLT’s tiny stage? By three Actors? We have no idea, but it’ll be fun to figure out.
Join literary royalty Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, Detective Fix and Princess Aouda, along with 20-odd other assorted and interesting characters as they make their epic journey against the clock.
A rollicking fast-paced bit of silliness to finish the year.
Characters
Characters Summary:
In the spirit of plays such as the 39 Steps, three actors will attempt to stage the whole 260 page novel. The fourth character is author Jules Verne, who makes an unexpected appearance.
It’s a rollicking, fast paced bit of silliness to finish the year. It’ll require a cast with huge energy and equally huge inventiveness.
To our knowledge, this will be the first time the four-handed version of this play will be done in Australia.
Characters Description:
All actors play myriad roles. But each has a main character that stays with them throughout. These are described below, and will form the basis of auditions. As scripted, all four actors are male.
Phileas Fogg: 50s. Debonaire, charming, and with a killer smile. Perfect manners hide the fact that he’s a high-class thief. Quite unflappable, with unshakable dignity.
Passpartout: 30s or younger. Fogg’s young employee and fixer. This role will be the most demanding in terms of physical comedy. Bright, helpful, perhaps a bit gullible. But a genuinely nice young guy.
Inspector Fix. 35+. The hapless Scotland Yard detective charged with bringing Fogg to justice. Stuffy, dogmatic and no fun at parties. This actor would ideally be able to put across a range of British accents.
Jules Verne. 60+. Written as something of a doofus. Tries very hard to be helpful to the actors, but more often than not just gets in the way. Adopts a narrator type role, so must be confident with audience interaction.
Precast Characters:
Nil
Audition Venue & Dates
Audition Dates and Times:
7:30pm on:
- Sun 11th Sep 2022
- Mon 12th Sep 2022
Audition Venue Name: Williamstown Little Theatre.
Audition Venue Address:
2-4 Albert Street Williamstown
Audition Enquiries Contact: Peter Newling - peter.newling@gmail.com or 0419 205 200
Performances
Season Dates: 16 Nov 2022 - 3 Dec 2022
Showtimes:
5:00pm on:
- Sun 20th Nov 2022
- Sun 27th Nov 2022
8:15pm on:
- Wed 16th Nov 2022
- Thu 17th Nov 2022
- Fri 18th Nov 2022
- Sat 19th Nov 2022
- Tue 22nd Nov 2022
- Wed 23rd Nov 2022
- Thu 24th Nov 2022
- Fri 25th Nov 2022
- Sat 26th Nov 2022
- Tue 29th Nov 2022
- Wed 30th Nov 2022
- Thu 1st Dec 2022
- Fri 2nd Dec 2022
- Sat 3rd Dec 2022
More info
Other Information
Other Information:
Williamstown Little Theatre requires that all those who work with us – including cast – must be able to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19, or provide an appropriate medical exemption. Please ensure you have your proof of vaccination certificate or exemption with you when you come to the audition.
Rehearsals will be held at Williamstown Little Theatre on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and Sunday afternoons.
Once you have booked an audition with the Director, please bring to your audition a completed audition form downloaded from wlt.org.au/auditions, together with a non-returnable headshot (studio shot not necessary).
