Auditions
The Lady’s Not For Burning
by Christopher Fry
directed by Ruth Sarratt
DETAILS
Dates
Auditions – Sunday, 28 June, 10:30 am
Call-backs – Wednesday 30 June, 7:35 pm
Venue: (also for rehearsals and performances) Cochran Hall, 106 Cashmere Avenue, Khandallah
Rehearsals: start Sunday 2 August at 2:30pm. Thereafter, Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons (or evenings) until Thursday 1 October.
Technical and dress rehearsals: afternoon and evening of Sunday 4 October, and evenings of Monday 5 October and Wednesday 7 October. - you must be available for these.
Season: 7 performances: evenings of October 8, 9, 10 and 15, 16, 17 and a matinee in the afternoon of October 11.
To register for an audition
Check the audition, rehearsal and performance dates - are you available?
Register your interest by emailing katmembership@gmail.com. Give your phone number. If you can’t audition on the given dates, let us know and we’ll see if we can arrange another date/time for you.
On receipt of your email we’ll send you the link to a form for you to fill in.
About a week before the audition date we’ll send you the audition pieces.
Come along to the audition.
The play
The play is set in the early 1400s.
Thomas Mendip, a discharged soldier, weary of the world and eager to leave it, comes to Cool Clary, announces that he has committed murder and demands to be hanged. Shortly afterwards a young woman, Jennet, is brought before the Mayor for witchcraft. Strangely, she has no wish to be put to death.
The Mayor’s family members, clerks and officials gather for an impending wedding and somehow end up inviting these two characters. Through the party and the night, the intended bride slips off with the orphan clerk, two brothers fight over the bride and later become bored with her, the Mayor gets the vapours, Jennet becomes the guest of honour and poor Thomas falls hopelessly in love. Luckily, that love is reciprocated.
Events transpire that mean that Thomas can’t be hanged for murder; neither is there proof that Jennet is a witch. The question of hanging is, therefore, deferred until morning. In that breathing space, Jennet and Thomas consider their next moves.
The roles
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a woman in her prime, intelligent, attractive, strong-minded and well-educated (for the time)
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young and pretty
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a busy, distracted matron, a mature character but not old
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a discharged soldier, world-weary, adult (not old), fit and healthy
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an orphaned clerk, young and poor, but wise to the ways of the world (and his employer especially)
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young, energetic, wants whatever his brother Humphrey has
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a bit less energetic and more absent-minded than Nicholas
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a not-particularly efficient town official, easily weighed down with the responsibilities of office, an older character
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a Justice, a mature town official, more sensible and practical than his friend Tyson
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an older character (or perhaps not – there could be room to play with this character), he is ineffectual. This role could be doubled with Skipps
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the ”clown” role - a rag and bone man who appears only in the final scene. Could be doubled with the Chaplain