Hebden Bridge Little Theatre New Playwriting Competition - Casting breakdown

Auditions to be held on Sunday 25th May 2-5pm

Please message me with expressions of interest with the role or roles you would like to audition for:

Janetgriffiths55@sky.com or Whatsapp 07944 033 364

Performances 7/8/9 August

Must be committed from Tuesday 29th July

Rehearsals in July

Island by Chris Salt
Two men are shipwrecked on a barren island in various stages of sanity. A female arrives following another shipwreck. How will they respond to this new arrival?
MIKES: mid-twenties dual-heritage preferably, slight
CAL: thirty, Caucasian, rough-hewn
BESS: teenager, black preferably

Somewhere in the Middle by Sarah Green
When Shannon’s Nan dies the family discover she wasn’t married to their grandfather and he’d had another child before they got together
SHANNON: Seventeen
JOE: Forties
SALLY: Forties
VOICEOVER OF IRISH NAN

Shared Air by Sarah Osborne
Joyce is widowed and rents out her next-door cottage to Craig who assures her his wife and family will follow. It turns out Craig has been a gambler, and his wife doesn’t want to be with him. Joyce and Craig become intimate but eventually she tells him to leave.
JOYCE: Forties, widow, strong willed, kind, a lonely spirit
CRAIG: Thirty nine, Lost, caring, thoughtful, estranged from his wife and children
ED: Forties/early fifties, warm-hearted, concerned, a simple soul, Joyce’s husband

Scared to Death by Aaron Cliff
Early 1900s. Robert a University Lecturer is attended by Robert a young butler.
Tabitha comes to call pretending to be contacting Celia who is dead and eventually
kills Robert.
ROBERT: fifties/sixties arrogant and pompous
CEDRIC: twenties rather timid with a quick wit
TABITHA: elderly, rather mysterious, like a fortune teller

To Kill a Nightingale by Chris Berry
Two time periods (1942/1960s) telling of a wartime spy ring and a thwarted romance.
Lydia has been having an affair with Dominic and had his baby but marries
Daniel who poisons Dominic who is in prison and the baby is adopted.
LYDIA: thirties and forties needs to be able to sing
DANIEL: thirties and forties
DOMINIC: thirties

Snakes and Ladders by Jay Cundell Walker
Starting as a gentle situation comedy, this piece gradually reveals that the characters
Are struggling with two of the most common issues affecting society in Britain today.
Karen is caring for a mother with dementia. Malcolm has a wife with mental health
problems. They meet every Friday lunchtime for a prawn sandwich with benefits.
MALCOLM: middle-aged
KAREN: Forties, extremely bright, has lost all ambition.