East Lane Theatre, Vale Farm, Watford Road, Sudbury, Middlesex, HA0 3HG Registered Charity Number 1183134
General Notes on Auditioning for East Lane Theatre Club
Auditions are open to anyone over 18 (or 16 by arrangement)
East Lane is an amateur club. No payments are made for performing.
If this is your first time at East Lane, please also bring with you details of your past experience, a photo with your Full name, address, phone number and email so we can contact you later.
Auditions are as friendly and informal as possible, you will be asked to read from the provided
audition pieces, either singly or in groups, as well as moving around our stage.
There is no need to learn the pieces provided, and we do not ask for any learnt pieces to be performed.
We do ask that if cast you can make all the rehearsal & performance dates, although it is sometimes possible to accommodate pre arranged holidays. Please bring with you dates you cannot make.
To perform in a production you must be a Full paid up Member, and pay the casting fee £20 on the first rehearsal (which covers your script, insurance, tea & coffee etc)
We usually rehearse for 9 weeks, Monday & Thursday from 19.30 to 22.00
Productions weeks are:
Fri: Technical rehearsal
Mon: Dress rehearsal
Wed-Fri evenings production
Sat Matinee and evening production
Sunday Matineeproduction
Our fourth production of the season is Improbable Fiction,
a 2005 play by Alan Ayckbourn.
Production dates: 16th July to 20th July 2025
The play is about a writers' circle meeting, set in the living room in Arnold's
house. It is one continuous scene, broken only by the interval.
The first act almost entirely takes place during the Writers' Circle meeting
where the various authors discuss their current projects.
In the second act, however, the same room represents various houses in
various stories in Victorian times, the 1930s, and the present day.
The only set change is the phone on the dresser.
The play takes us from a character driven drama into a surreal comedy.
Arnold, middle-aged chairman of the Writers' group and a writer of
instruction manuals: 30s-40s
Grace, mother of grown-up children, wants to write children's books: 50s onwards
Jess, a farmer, wants to write period romance novels: 50s onwards
Vivi, younger woman, busy writing detective novels: mid 20s onwards
Brevis, retired headmaster, still writing musicals: 60+
Clem, young man, writing conspiracy theory science fiction : Any age
Ilsa, carer for Arnold's mother during Writers' group meetings: 18 onwards
This is a fairly physical play with some really fast costume changes.
It will certainly stretch your acting skills but should also be great fun.
Reading
2nd Feb @ 19.00
Auditions
Fri 7th Feb @ 19.30
Sun 9th March @ 19.00
Rehearsals start 19th May 2025
Danny
Danny.popkin@outlook.com: 07802775036
NEXT AUDITIONS
IMPROBABLE FICTION
by Alan Ayckbourn.