AUDITIONS - Play on! (comedy play)
Written by Rick Abbot
Directed by Paul Treasure and Bree Hartley
It's time to have some good old-fashioned theatre fun with this one!
AUDITIONS -
Sunday 27/7/25 2pm - 8pm (and Tuesday evening 29/7/25 7-9pm if required)
REHEARSALS - Tuesday and Wednesday evenings (+ any others that may be needed through discussion and agreement with cast/crew)
SEASON -
Preview - 22/10/25
Performances - Fri 24/10 (7:30pm), Sat 25/10 (7:30pm), Sun 26/10 (5pm), Fri 31/10 (7:30pm), Sat 1/11 (2 show day - 2pm and 7:30pm)
AUDITION INFO -
Please consider which role/s you will be auditioning for. You will be given a piece of the script to read on the day - please arrive 20 mins before your audition time to allow sufficient time to read it through.
If you would like to book an audition time please contact:
Bree Hartley - president@roleystonetheatre.com.au or 0402014666
SYNOPSIS -
This is the hilarious story of a theatre group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance, in which anything that can go wrong, does!
When the author decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax and a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter.
TIME PERIOD - Present Day
SETTING - The Stage of a Community Theatre.
FEATURES - Physical Comedy
DURATION - 90 minutes
CAST LIST -
AGGIE MANVILLE – a stage manager and prompter
GERALDINE "GERRY" DUNBAR – a community theatre director
HENRY BENISH ("Lord Dudley") – an mature character actor
POLLY BENISH ("Lady Margaret") – an mature character actress
MARLA "SMITTY" SMITH ("Doris the maid") – a supporting player
SAUL WATSON ("Doctor Rex Forbes") – a villain
BILLY CAREWE ("Stephen Sellers") – a young man
VIOLET IMBRY ("Diana Lassiter") – an ingénue
LOUISE PEARY – a sound-and-lighting-and-scenic technician
PHYLLIS MONTAGUE – a novice playwright in the community
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT - Rick Abbot
'Rick Abbot' is one of several pen names for prolific playwright Jack Sharkey (1931-1992). Mr. Sharkey was born on May 6, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois. He began writing when he was 10 years old. He graduated from college with a BA in Creative Writing and taught in schools from 1953 to 1955. In 1958, Mr. Sharkey went to New York to begin a full-time freelance writing career. He wrote science fiction stories and novels, humour articles and mystery novels. In 1961, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as joke editor for Playboy Magazine before serving as editor of the Allstate Insurance Company Magazine from 1964-75.
Mr. Sharkey wrote his first stage comedy in 1965. At the end of 1975, he went exclusively into playwriting, which he continued until a few months before his death. He has 83 published plays written under his own name and four others - 'Rick Abbot', 'Monk Ferris', 'Mark Chandler' and 'Mike Johnson'. 'Mike Johnson' wrote only stage thrillers. All the other plays are comedies and/or musicals. The plays are performed all around the world.
Roleystone Theatre Inc is a not for profit community theatre group. All roles are unpaid.
