Directed by Sue Miller.

Auditions will be held on Sunday 21 February from 2pm to 4pm at the Drama Christi Studio (beside the Wesley Church), 75 Taranaki Street, Wellington.

 The French Lieutenant’s Woman is set in England in 1867, mainly in Lyme Regis, but also in London. It tells the tale of Sarah or “Tragedy” who is abandoned by a French Lieutenant, and who then is subsequently befriended by the aristocratic Charles. There are three different endings to the play, with a narrator who also interacts with the characters, making this an intriguing play for both actors and audience.

Cast list:

Sarah -   30s
Author/Grogan  -  older man
Mrs Tranter        -  50s,  wealthy
Ernestina            -  early 20s, wealthy
Charles               -   30s,  baronet's son
Sam                    -   20s,  gentleman's gentleman
Rev Forsythe     -  60s
Mrs Poultney     -  older woman
Mrs Poultney's housekeeper  -  older woman
There are a number of smaller roles, which could be doubled up, for both men and women of all ages.

For more information contact Sue Miller on 233 1842 or kotuku.media@xtra.co.nz

28 July to 7 August The Diary of Anne Frank  

Dramatised by France Goodrich and Albert Hackett newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman.

Directed by Tanya Piejus 

A cast of 10 plus 3 teenagers. Auditions early May. Date to be advised. 

Fleeing from Germany to Holland in 1933 to escape the Nazis, Anne Frank and her family, who were Jews, are forced into hiding when Holland itself is invaded by the Nazis. The play is set in the family’s hiding place, an attic above a factory which was their home for two years and which they shared with another Jewish family and a doctor. The play powerfully conveys the tensions and terrors of the period. The story is well known and the ending unhappy, but this script, which draws heavily on Anne’s diary, provokes discussion about the way human beings treat each other.

For further details contact Tanya Piejus, email: teapea@paradise.net.nz 

16 to 25 September Trick of the Light (NZ) 

by Ken Duncum

Directed by Meg Cooksley 

Cast of 4. Auditions early July. Date to be advised 

A modern drama linking two plays in the same motel three decades apart.  

Two generations, and the long shadow of a famous murder case. A brother and a sister bring their mother's ashes to the motel.  It was her dying wish.  But why?  Is there a key here to past secrets?  How is the mystery of that past mirrored in their own lives and relationships? Then, thirty years earlier the parents have come to the motel.  He is a policeman, working on a controversial murder retrial.  She has her own ideas.  How do they deal with conflicting loyalties, trust and truth, and one another? A passionate search for answers to the mysteries of the past and present...... For further details contact Meg Cooksley email: mbcook@clear.net.nz

24 November to 4 December

Black Adder II - The Early Tudors 

by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton 

Directed by Ewen Coleman 

Auditions early September. Date to be dvised. 

Being a true and japesome historie of Elizabethan England, regaling the tales of Edmund, Baldrick and Lord Percy, along with Queen Elizabeth I, Nursie, Melchett and 20 plus other characters. 

This production will combine three episodes of the TV series:- Belles – Everything is reasonably normal for Edmund, the bastard great-great-grandson of the repulsive original, and his dungball servant, and bird-brained dim-witted companion, till he meets Bob… 

Money – Trouble is in store for Edmund when the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells drops by unexpectedly and tries to shove a red-hot poker up places where a cotton bud would be kinder.

Chains – Edmund is slightly inconvenienced when a fat-headed German chamber-pot boxes him up in a chestful of iron spikes and leaves him to play charades with a crazed Spanish interrogator. 

For further details contact Ewen Coleman, home 394 1413, mobile 027 428 8491 or email: edcoleman@xtra.co.nz