Malvern Theatre Co. Inc.
VDL Awards Entry: 2023
Author: Emma Wood
Director: Susan Rundle
Genre: Drama
Agent: Stagescripts Ltd
Synopsis
Sue’s daughter is getting married. While the bride-to-be brims over with excitement, Sue grits her teeth and wonders how she will endure it. The wedding will force her to come to terms with her own, very different circumstances: the end of her long marriage, her estranged husband and his new partner, and questions she has tried very hard to ignore. As pressure builds, the armour she has carefully constructed around herself is threatened. She is forced to a reckoning with family, her oldest friend, and even the past in the form of an old flame with an agenda of his own. Can she find the strength to face a very different future from the one she imagined?
Characters
Characters Summary:
Female: Five Roles - 30s-80s
Male: Two roles – mid 50s-early 60s
Sue: 55-60s
Denise: 55-60s
Lara: 30s
Daniel: 55-60s
Bill: 55-60s
Jessica: 38-40
Mary: 80s
Characters Description:
SUE
Female, mid fifties, mother of Lara and former wife of Bill, who has left her a year earlier after a long marriage. Sue is struggling with how to approach the next stage of her life and feels she has lost control over her own destiny.
DENISE
Female, mid fifties, a close friend of Sue’s and family friend who has known Lara and Bill for many years too.
LARA
Female, 30s, Sue’s daughter, a bubbly and excitable woman about to be married. She has good relations with her separated parents and hopes they can mend the breach before the wedding.
DANIEL
Male, mid fifties, old flame and long time friend of Sue’s. They used to date in their early twenties before she left him for Bill. He has been working overseas but returns in time for the wedding, and to care for his elderly and sick mother.
BILL
Male, 60ish, Sue’s former husband, now living with Jessica. He faces challenges as his health falters while his younger partner is pregnant.
JESSICA
Female, early 40s, partner to Bill. She is thrilled about her first pregnancy but under considerable stress as Bill’s affairs are not settled, he works longer than he should and has some health concerns, and his guilt over the divorce means she is kept on the side lines.
MARY
Female, 80s, Daniel’s mother, one scene only. Good humoured and wise
Precast Characters:
None
Audition Venue & Dates
Audition Dates and Times:
2:30pm on:
7:30pm on:
Audition Venue Name: Malvern Theatre
Audition Venue Address:
29 Burke Rd, Malvern East, VIC, 3145
Audition Enquiries Contact: Susan Rundle, theatre@psrundle.com, 0416 298 136
Performances
Season Dates: 25 Aug 2023 - 9 Sep 2023
Showtimes:
2:00pm on:
- Sat 26th Aug 2023
- Sun 3rd Sep 2023
- Sat 9th Sep 2023
8:00pm on:
- Fri 25th Aug 2023
- Sat 26th Aug 2023
- Wed 30th Aug 2023
- Thu 31st Aug 2023
- Fri 1st Sep 2023
- Sat 2nd Sep 2023
- Wed 6th Sep 2023
- Thu 7th Sep 2023
- Fri 8th Sep 2023
- Sat 9th Sep 2023
More info
Other Information
Other Information:
Auditions are strictly by appointment.
Successful cast members MUST BE available for rehearsals on Tuesday evenings, Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons/ evenings between 18th June and 24th August 2023 as well as all production dates. Please check you are available for all performance dates before booking your audition time. Please also inform the Director at your audition, if there is a possibility of you taking on professional acting work that may conflict with rehearsal and performance dates.
A copy of the script will be provided, together with a list of the sections to be read at audition. It is expected that auditionees will have read the play and have a reasonable understanding of it.
You will be required to submit a resume and headshot prior to the audition via our online audition form.
If you are successful, you will be required to become a member of the Malvern Theatre Company, if you are not already and abide by our Association Rules & Policies.
