Wellington Repertory Theatre

by Ken Duncum
A New Zealand play directed by Meg Cooksley.

Cast of 5

Auditions; Saturday 3rd July, 2 - 5pm Newtown Hall, Daniel Street, Newtown, Wellington.

Two women to play Clare/Jan in their 30's - 40s

Three men to play Bevan/Tom & Phillip in their 20's to 50's.

However, whoever auditions for the motelier, Mrs Wicks/Phillip, must be able to look and act in their late teens /early 20's to early sixties.

The script is quirky and the story is quite haunting in parts. Briefly, it's very loosely based around a detective sent to discretely investigate the first police investigation of the Crewe murders. It's a promotion for him. He takes his wife with him. She realises the significance of the area and whilst her husband is out on the job, forms her own opinion of what happened.

30 years on, their two children are back at the motel the parents stayed at, at the mother's request,with her ashes for one last night. The play is not about the murders, but rather about the intersecting of relationships. And it's powerful.

Produced by Wellington Repertory at the Gryphon on Ghuznee Street from 16 - 25th September 2010.

For more information contact: Susannah Donovan

by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton directed by Ewen Coleman

Auditions; Sunday 5 September, Time TBA, Newtown Hall, Daniel Street, Newtown, Wellington.

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 – Ewen Coleman