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 Matinee production
Set on the ‘Costa del Crime’. The period is early 2000s.
Michael and Ray were East End villains, back in the day, working on lucrative crimes together.
Now, Michael lives a comfortable life in Spain with his younger second wife Francine, whereas Ray, still married to his sharp-tongued wife Brenda, and still in Britain, is struggling to make ends meet.
Out of the blue, after two years without contact, Michael has invited Ray and Brenda over for a visit. Ray is delighted, taking it at face value. Brenda, on the other hand, wonders…what could be Michael’s true motives? They do go. Polly, a young researcher working on a film (how she presents herself, anyway) enters. She introduces more tensions to an already volatile situation.
As stories of the men’s past are told, suspicions mount. Finally, the truth is revealed…..expect some neat twists!
Note that, quite in keeping with the way that people in those circles talk, the play includes very strong language.
Ages below are from the script; there is some flexibility in them provided that we stay within the bounds of intended relative differences and plot chronology.
Characters:
Michael mid-sixties
Francine early forties (hint of French accent would be nice but not nec.)
Ray mid-sixties
Brenda early-sixties
Polly late twenties
+ a Man, voice only, in Spanish - must be or sound like native speaker
Reading Sunday 4th January, 7.00 pm
Audition 1 Sunday 11th January, 7.00 pm
Audition 2 Friday 23rd January, 7.30 pm
1st Rehearsal Monday 23rd February, 7.30 pm
Production Dates 29th April to 3rd May
Any questions, or if you want to audition but can’t make either date, email or call me: laurenceconway@btinternet.com 020 8907 9931. Laurence Conway, Director
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by Richard Harris