Archive for March 2025

Audition: Passenger Written and Directed by Paul Reynolds

Audition Date: Tuesday 22nd April at 8pm

Show Dates: Tuesday 1st to Saturday 5th July 2025

If you are interested please contact Moyra Brookes on [email protected] or just turn up. If you are interested but cannot make the date please let us know so we can arrange to see you separately.

Synopsis

The play is about how we see people and who they really are (and the differences in reaction this causes with the audience) and about hope when all things seem to be potentially against you. It’s a parody of 21^st century culture and living with the constant cloud of social media, dating Apps, and electric vehicles. There are undertones of reflection on relationships and growing old (dis)gracefully. The individual characters hit off each other more strongly as the play develops and relationships shift at the same time.

The action takes place on a busy street, in a coffee shop, a bar, a Eurostar passenger train compartment and a lounge/bedroom

Characters;

Maisie; Slightly mousy, introverted and downtrodden mid 40’s, been unlucky in love and now has moved in with her considerably well-off cantankerous Mother in Highgate, N10 following the death of her Father last year. Maisie has been briefly married but has no children, has been more recently let down by a series of men and now looks upon her life’s goals as opportunities to speak about the psychology and behaviour of European domesticated felines at various conferences, rebuff men on Internet dating sites and drink lots of White wine, black coffee & Espresso Martinis.

Think Cher in Moonstruck pre-make-over. Something there but not sure how to release it

Andy;Archetypal man on the street, confident (outwardly), slightly flamboyant, natty dresser and someone who knows a small amount about most things but specialises in virtually nothing (other than failed relationships). He is recently separated from his long-term partner and is living in Southwest London with a ‘friend’ until he gets back on his feet. He is a Civil Engineer which he hates but he can’t find anything else to do that he ever lasts longer than a year at. His confidence and jovial banter hides an inner turmoil of self-loathing, depression, vulnerability and deep desire to find ‘the one’.

Think Andrew Ridgeley before the grey hair & paunch took hold

Mum (Beryl);Mum is a no nonsense well at heel Londoner who has seen and done most things in life and now wants everyone to just piss off and leave her alone (with her dog Roderick). Unfortunately, her daughter has decided it would be a great idea to move back in with her following the death last year of her swashbuckling go getter husband who died whilst hang gliding off a cliff in Tenerife. Mum hates most things in modern life including Tik Tok, X, people saying ‘like’ every third word, influencers, the French, the price of coffee and electric vehicles.

Ray the CoachRay is gruff, to the point and very tired of driving coaches (he’s been doing it for 40 years). He relieves the boredom of driving passengers on weekend city breaks by drinking to oblivion and doing his best to find a suitable female to shack up with for 24/48 hours. Unfortunately, his attempts with Beryl go horribly array. He is also a self-confessed racist and does not understand what ‘woke culture’ is let alone trying to spell it.

Patrice Patrice is a slightly flamboyant, tall, suave good-looking French guy in his late 20’s who works on Eurostar as a customer services assistant but dreams big, dreams of being in Moulin Rouge or starring as Josh Brolins body double.

Audition: Dead Dad Dog by John McKay

Directed by Graham Botterill

Audition Date: Mon 31st March 8pm

Show Dates: Tues 1st to Sat 5th July

If you are interested please contact Graham Botterill [email protected] or just turn up.If you are interested but cannot make the date please contact us so we can arrange to see you separately.

Synopsis

Eck (Hector) has a great day ahead of him. He’s got an interview with BBC Scotland, that he’s going to breeze, followed by a hot date with the lovely Roseanne. But then his father, Willie, turns up and Eck literally cannot get away from him. What complicates the situation is that Willie is ten years dead!

Characters:

Eck: Mid twenties. Trendy aspiring Scottish media type, currently unemployed

Willie: Age around 50’s. A dead hoover salesman dressed in a loud, flared seventies suit, with a tacky wide seventies haircut, including big sideburns. He is both cheery and dour.

“an amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books”