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Reading and Auditions for “Chicks and Dogs” - a comedy by Clive Renton

To be Directed by Jackie Wesley-Harkcom
Performance Dates - 2nd -6th April


Cast requirements,
Julia Harptree - Spinster, local busy-body. ‘Jolly Hockey-sticks’ type, Organises everybody.

Margaret Watson - Mother, housewife, rushed off her feet trying to ‘keep all the plates spinning’.

David Watson - Father, geography teacher with ‘a bee in his bonnet’ about charity fund raisers.

Oliver Watson - Son nearly teens or early teens, schoolboy.

Lydia Watson – Daughter, a little older than Oliver, student.

Revd. Matthew Singer - Parish vicar. An interesting mixture of other worldly and down to earth.
 
It’s a few days before the village’s next fund-raiser and Margaret has volunteered her whole family to help Julia with the arrangements for the enterprise.  These are all super characters with plenty of opportunity for comedy.

Please note that all readings and auditions are open to anyone that might be interested in getting involved, not just members of Teignmouth Players, although if you do audition and are successful in securing a part, you will be expected to become a member of the society which costs just £10 per year (plus an initial £5 joining fee).