October
28
Casting Breakdown – British Theatre Challenge 2016
Performance Dates
Friday 2nd, Saturday 3rd December at Lost Theatre, Stockwell
Salary
Travel expense allowance, comp tickets to the show and a video copy of the project will be provided.
Details & Requirements
Audition Dates: 12th and 13th November
Rehearsals commence: 17th November
10 winning one act plays from around the world, performed and filmed over two nights. An eclectic mix of comedy, thriller, romance, mystery and horror in two evenings wherein the audience will be asked to vote for the play believed to be the best which will then receive the audience appreciation award.
Our selected winning plays are of the highest quality, so much so that over the last two year’s, 18 out of 20 plays were offered publication! We expect this year’s plays to continue that record.
Opportunity to play in more than one play across the performance weekend. A perfect showcase for artists seeking new representation and to invite casting directors along to.
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Please email newplay@skybluetheatre.com with your CV and covering letter.
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Submissions for multiple roles welcome.
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We look forward to hearing from you.
Water Under The Bridge
Challenging pacey dialogue; old friends, American gangsters, Louis and Tony meet unexpectedly in the
changing room of a sauna and revisit their violent, brutal past. Powerful story leading to a savage climax.
As they dress they use the opportunity to settle old scores.[LOUIS] [MALE] [AGE: 30+]
Gangster. American accent. Needs strong teamwork
[TONY] [MALE] [AGE: 30+]
Gangster. American accent.
Fallen Wings
A daughter, Meghan, reflects on final episodes with her dying mother – home, café, hospital- then realises her mother has passed away.
[MEGHAN] [FEMALE] [AGE: 30+]Good at being alone; very well spoken; talks directly to the audience; mourns a relationship with her mother
that never was[MOTHER] [FEMALE] [AGE: 40+]
Also good at being alone; closed off; cold; bitter; judgemental
[WAITRESS] [FEMALE] [AGE: ]
Committed to her job
[DOCTOR] [FEMAIL] [AGE: ]
Crumpled
roles 2,3,4 can be same actor
iDOLLatry
Inspired by Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Richard Jones has found Pearl and placed her in a cage in the basement of
his home. Richard’s wife, Janice, is appalled.[PEARL] [FEMALE] [AGE: 20s – 30s]
Long hair; attractive; must be able to move, sit, stand rigidly like a doll
[RICHARD JONES] [MALE] [AGE: 35+]
Lethargic; henpecked; suffering a midlife crisis;
[JANICE JONES] [FEMALE] [AGE: 35+]
Housewife; outspoken; overbearing; controlling; ability to play comedy an advantage
The Gangster Game
Just a friendly, illegal back-street poker game, but Johnny and Eddy have no idea Sergey is an undercover federal. When things go awry,
a shoot-out commences, and that’s when Mrs Pesci interrupts the 10 year olds’ gangster game.[JOHNNY] [MALE] [AGE: 30+]
British, cockney accent; gangster; ability to act like a ten year old and move in slow motion required
[EDDY] [MALE] [AGE: 30+]
American accent , 1930s New York gangster; ability to act like a ten year old and move in slow motion required
[SERGEY] [MALE] [AGE: 30+]
Undercover Russian mobster; ability to act like a ten year old and move in slow motion required ; Russian
and English accents[MRS PESCI] [FEMALE] [AGE: 30+]
(pronounced Peh-shee, as in Joe Pesci) cheerful British mother.
Blue Love
When Tara Maher, the troubled daughter of local developer Michael Dan Maher, submits an inappropriate
piece of coursework to her lecturer Steve Collis in a regional college in small-town Ireland, she sets in motion a destructive, illicit relationship which comes to a head as the anniversary of
the suicide of her twin sister Caoimhe approaches.[STEVE COLLIS] [MALE] [AGE: EARLY 30s]
Strong Dublin accent, a lecturer awaiting his viva. Non-committal, a moral coward who believes himself basically moral; becomes involved with his student
[LARRY KEHOE] [MALE] [AGE: 30s]
History lecturer; an unmarried local; Motivated by alpha-male rivalry and a vicarious transgressive impulse; Irish accent
[TARA MAHER] [FEMALE] [AGE: Early 20s]
A student; bipolar; very bright; Desperate to escape the small-town, particularly since her twin sister’s suicide; destructive; becomes involved with her teacher; vulnerable;
troubled; Irish accent[MICHAEL DAN MAHER] [MALE] [AGE: 40+]
Tara’s father; a big man; a bankrupt developer; Used to having his way with workers; widower; confident;
protective of his daughter; Irish accentMercy Killing
Mercy Killing examines (via a post-coital discussion between two lovers) how Abby’s affair decades earlier, and her then husband’s forgiveness
thereof, has lead to paralysing aftershocks that have followed her ever since.
[ABBY] [FEMALE] [AGE: 30+]An Attorney. Witty, smart, occasionally acerbic, guarded; American accent
[DREW] [MALE] [AGE: 30s+]
Witty, smart, Affable; American accent
The Likeness
The story of a dictator, Mostar, now without power and Lash, a girl who paints him. Poetic and symbolic the
play asks questions about religion and tyranny.[MOSTAR] [MALE] [AGE: 40+]
Handsome and has an aura of barely diminished self-command and power, RP
[LASH] [FEMALE] [AGE:, 30s – 50s]
Commanding, controlling, sensual, RP,
Driven
Matt is driving to work to finalise the deal of a lifetime but in a series of phone calls from his girlfriend, wife
and father everything goes wrong and his driving becomes more manic ending in a dramatic climax.[MATT] [MALE] [AGE: 30+]
A wealthy businessman speeds toward the deal of a lifetime; Uber-cool; charming; egotistical; Armani suited; Knows how to drive; he becomes increasingly frantic watching the
deal slip through his fingers; player – is cheating on his wife with a younger model.[FLIC] [FEMALE] [AGE: 20s]
Matts girlfriend. Attractive, not very intelligent; fashion victim;naive; thinks the world revolves around her;
flirtatious; is having an affair with Matt.[ELIZABETH] [FEMALE] [AGE: 30s+]
Matts wife; dedicated; harried; a housewife and mother; unaware her husband is unfaithful
[STEVE] [MALE] [AGE: 30+]
Matts business partner; anxious, chardonnay socialist;
[DAD] [MALE] [AGE: 50+]
Father to Mat; hard of hearing; kindly; fatherly;
[RAFI] [MALE/FEMALE] [AGE: 10]
Rafi, Matts son – playing age ten years old
The Windsor Con
Frank on his 64th birthday recalls incidents and meetings with family and friends. He believes his family are
coming to celebrate with him but he never cared about them so they don’t.[FRANK] [MALE] [AGE: 50s+]
Deadbeat Dad; mean spirited; American accent; lost sense of reality;never takes responsibiity for anything
– from Detroit[CHERYL] [FEMALE] [AGE: 40s+]
Frank’s ex-wife; American accent; hardy; not afraid to speak her mind; sick of Franks bullshit
[FRANNIE] [FEMALE] [AGE: 30s]
Franks estranged daughter; American accent; dislikes her father intensely; struggling single mother to her
young son; works as a dancer in a club[WAITRESS/NURSE] [FEMALE] [AGE: 30s]
American accent; friendly; jolly; chatty but a bit too busy for Franks stories – from Toronto
[STAS] [MALE] [AGE: 50s+]
Frank’s best friend; resents Frank not taking responsibility; more of a moral conscience than Frank; tells
him how it is;Berry Season
It’s a dull day for cashier, Jon at the produce market and then Tracey walks in. All she wants is some
strawberries, but Jon’s imagination takes off with warp speed. He smells the nectar of her breath, hears
pounding surf, sees verdant hills, plunges into deep valleys and then, she walks out.[NARRATOR] [FEMALE] [AGE: 20s-30+]
Professional concert speaker; needs excellent sense of timing and ability to speak poetically and sensually
[SpEAKER] [MALE] [AGE: 20s – 30+]
Professional concert speaker tones; needs excellent sense of timing and ability to speak poetically and
sensually; Speaker has the inside track and is the full throttle version of Jon.[JON] [MALE] [AGE: 20s]
Clumsy; works in a market; distracted; attracted to a very beautiful woman while trying not to show it;
needs excellent sense of timing[ETHEL] [FEMALE] [AGE: Ethel: 40+]
Customer ; impatient; doesn’t suffer fools gladly
[TRACEY] [FEMALE] [AGE: 20s]
Customer; very attractive; sensual; long brown hair; needs excellent sense of timing
Submissions for multiple roles welcome.