Auditions:
Expectations – a short season of short plays

KAT Theatre’s annual short season of short plays is the ideal opportunity to give rein to your performance creativity without needing to learn too many lines or have too many rehearsals each week.

In 2025 the programme contains five plays - all quite short and all with very interesting characters and situations.

Auditions: 2 pm, Sunday 2 February 2025

Venue: Cochran Hall, 106 Cashmere Avenue, Khandallah

Rehearsals start: Sunday 1 March. Exact days and times of rehearsals will be negotiated by the directors when they know their casts’ availabilities.

Season: Friday 2 to Sunday 4 May (4 performances)

The plays 

A Marriage Has Been Arranged by Alfred Sutro – an unusual and amusing marriage proposal offering actors the chance to showcase wit, intensity, and nuanced emotional transformation. A man in his 40s and a woman in her late 20s.

Director Archana Sahani, 021 920 667

Boxes by Peter Wilson, Tim Denton and Annie Forbes – a play about friendship and differences that will put a smile on everybody’s faces– and it has no dialogue. This is physical theatre at its finest and a great opportunity to break out of the straitjacket of scripted lines to learn.

Director Krzysztof Kowal, 027 956 9961

Call of the Revolution by Leonid Andreyev, adapted for stage by Walter Wykes – when the revolution starts, can you choose whether or not to join? On the surface a simple play, but with hidden depths, so needing good subtle acting.

Director Hayden Rogers, 021 609 518

Fourteen by Alice Gerstenberg – much mayhem as a frazzled society woman, her dutiful daughter and her unflappable butler/housekeeper prepare for a dinner party while the number of guests expected keeps changing.

Director Liz Ebrey, 020 420 8204

Poverty by Angie Farrow – the battle of the generations. A warm and family-affirming study of a mother and her young adult daughter as each tries to get the other to understand her perspective on what’s important in today’s world.

Director TJ Duggan, 022 186 3805

Scripts and audition pieces

To read the scripts go to the folder for this production on KAT Theatre’s Google Drive. 

Please DON’T print or download them (copyright rules) - each director will bring selections from their script to the audition.

Who to contact

Text the production manager Mary Collie-Holmes on 022 083 5499 to request an audition form and audition pieces or if you can’t audition on 2 February and want to arrange another time.

If you want more information about a particular play, text the relevant director (numbers shown above).