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
We are looking for 4 or 5 actors to do justice to this powerful, haunting and emotional American classic.
The Glass Menagerie is a “memory play” narrated by Tom Wingfield, who looks back on his life with his mother Amanda and his sister Laura in their shabby St. Louis apartment during the late1930s. All 3 characters dream of escape. The arrival of a dinner guest, referred to as The Gentleman Caller, does not go according to anyone’s plans.
The characters
Amanda Wingfield, a former Southern belle, has come down in the world and dreams of a better life while clinging to memories (maybe not always accurate) of her youth.
Playing age 50s. Accent deep South (Mississippi), which is where she grew up.
Tom Wingfield, her son. Works in a dead-end warehouse job to support the family but yearns for escape and adventure.
Playing age flexible, as we see a middle-aged Tom (50s) narrating the action in which his younger self ( 30s) is portrayed.
Usually played by one actor but can be played by two actors. Accent standard, neutral American.
Laura Wingfield, her daughter. Painfully shy, physically disabled, emotionally frail, she retreats into her collection of fragile glass animals—her “glass menagerie”.
Playing age 30s. Accent standard, neutral American
Jim O’Connor (The Gentleman Caller). A work colleague of Tom’s, an old high-school crush of Laura’s. Amanda is hoping, unrealistically, that he will be a suitor for Laura.
Playing age 30s. Accent standard, neutral American
Key Dates
General reading, all welcome.
Friday 10 April at 7.30pm
Auditions
Sunday 12 April at 7.00pm
Wednesday 22 April at 7.30pm
Audition pieces will be sent out in advance, so please contact the Director with your email address if you would like one or more, indicating the part(s) you wish to read for.
Rehearsals will start on Monday May 18th.
We will rehearse on Mondays and Thursdays, but as this is a short rehearsal period, there will be a few weeks in which there will be a 3rd rehearsal, the dates to be mutually agreed once the play is cast.
Production week Sunday 5 July (get-in) to Sunday 12 July (last performance).
Director
lindahampson40@gmail.com or phone/WhatsApp 07765 836313
NEXT AUDITIONS
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams