TheLantern
24-11-2010, 19:38
The Dilys Guite Players are proud to announce their plans for the Spring/Summer season.
The season will start with A Taste of Pinter, a selection of Pinter sketches presented on Feb 3rd, 4th and 5th 2011.
We will then be presenting The Dumb Waiter and A Slight Ache, Directed by Matt Risby (March 14th - 19th).
The season will continue with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Directed by Martin Derbyshire (May 16th - 21st).
The season will end in June with a yet to be confirmed one-act play competition.
Auditions
Auditions for all the Pinter shows as well as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead will be held on Saturday 11th of December 2010 from 10am - 6pm and Sunday 9th of January 2011 from 10am -6pm. People wanting to audition should contact Martin Derbyshire & Matt Risby at artistic@lanterntheatre.org.uk for more information or to book a 15 min audition slot. Everyone who books an audition slot will be emailed a choice of audition pieces from the plays and people will be able to audition for one, two, or all of the shows next season.
Information about each production is given below. These are open auditions and all are welcome.
The Dumb Waiter and A Slight Ache (March 14th – 19th)
The Dumb Waiter
Author: Harold Pinter
Cast: Male 2
Gus and Ben are on the job, waiting and listening. Into the waiting silence rattles the dumb waiter with extraordinary demands for dishes they cannot supply — and who is operating the dumb waiter in an empty house? In a while their victim will come and they will know what to do.
A Slight Ache
Author: Harold Pinter
Cast: Male 2 Female 1
Flora and Edward sit at the breakfast table chatting of flowers and wasps and of the slight ache which Edward feels in his eyes. Their conversation, which seems so simple and is yet so strangely revealing, then shifts to the mysterious matchseller who has been standing by their back gate for many weeks. Somehow his presence intimidates them, particularly Edward, whose ache becomes aggravated as they discuss who the matchseller may really be, and they resolve to call him in for a direct confrontation. Flora goes out to invite him to come into the house, and when he appears he proves to be an old man, dressed in rags, and so feeble that it is doubtful whether he can see or hear. Seating him in a chair Edward speaks to him in an unnaturally jovial and somehow terrifying manner and soon Edward, without a word of reply from the matchseller, is so unstrung that he cannot go on. Flora takes over the interrogation, and again the old man's silence spurs the spilling out of buried frustrations and fears.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (May 16th – 21st)
Author: Tom Stoppard
Cast: Male 14, female 2, 12 extras
Winner of both the Tony and NY Drama Critics Circle awards. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the college chums of Hamlet and their story is what happened behind the scenes in Shakespeare's play. What were they doing there in Elsinore anyway? "I don't know; we were sent for." They are not only anti agents, but also anti sympathy, anti identification, and in fact anti persons, which is uniquely demonstrated by their having such a hard time recollecting which of them goes by what name. The Players come and go; Prince Hamlet comes through reading words, words, words; foul deeds are done; Hamlet is sent abroad, escapes death; and in turn Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find their "only exit is death."
"Very funny, very brilliant, very chilling; it has the dust of thought about it and the particles glitter excitingly in the theatrical air." N.Y. Times .
"A stimulating, funny, imaginative comedy." N.Y. Daily News.
The season will start with A Taste of Pinter, a selection of Pinter sketches presented on Feb 3rd, 4th and 5th 2011.
We will then be presenting The Dumb Waiter and A Slight Ache, Directed by Matt Risby (March 14th - 19th).
The season will continue with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Directed by Martin Derbyshire (May 16th - 21st).
The season will end in June with a yet to be confirmed one-act play competition.
Auditions
Auditions for all the Pinter shows as well as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead will be held on Saturday 11th of December 2010 from 10am - 6pm and Sunday 9th of January 2011 from 10am -6pm. People wanting to audition should contact Martin Derbyshire & Matt Risby at artistic@lanterntheatre.org.uk for more information or to book a 15 min audition slot. Everyone who books an audition slot will be emailed a choice of audition pieces from the plays and people will be able to audition for one, two, or all of the shows next season.
Information about each production is given below. These are open auditions and all are welcome.
The Dumb Waiter and A Slight Ache (March 14th – 19th)
The Dumb Waiter
Author: Harold Pinter
Cast: Male 2
Gus and Ben are on the job, waiting and listening. Into the waiting silence rattles the dumb waiter with extraordinary demands for dishes they cannot supply — and who is operating the dumb waiter in an empty house? In a while their victim will come and they will know what to do.
A Slight Ache
Author: Harold Pinter
Cast: Male 2 Female 1
Flora and Edward sit at the breakfast table chatting of flowers and wasps and of the slight ache which Edward feels in his eyes. Their conversation, which seems so simple and is yet so strangely revealing, then shifts to the mysterious matchseller who has been standing by their back gate for many weeks. Somehow his presence intimidates them, particularly Edward, whose ache becomes aggravated as they discuss who the matchseller may really be, and they resolve to call him in for a direct confrontation. Flora goes out to invite him to come into the house, and when he appears he proves to be an old man, dressed in rags, and so feeble that it is doubtful whether he can see or hear. Seating him in a chair Edward speaks to him in an unnaturally jovial and somehow terrifying manner and soon Edward, without a word of reply from the matchseller, is so unstrung that he cannot go on. Flora takes over the interrogation, and again the old man's silence spurs the spilling out of buried frustrations and fears.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (May 16th – 21st)
Author: Tom Stoppard
Cast: Male 14, female 2, 12 extras
Winner of both the Tony and NY Drama Critics Circle awards. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the college chums of Hamlet and their story is what happened behind the scenes in Shakespeare's play. What were they doing there in Elsinore anyway? "I don't know; we were sent for." They are not only anti agents, but also anti sympathy, anti identification, and in fact anti persons, which is uniquely demonstrated by their having such a hard time recollecting which of them goes by what name. The Players come and go; Prince Hamlet comes through reading words, words, words; foul deeds are done; Hamlet is sent abroad, escapes death; and in turn Rosencrantz and Guildenstern find their "only exit is death."
"Very funny, very brilliant, very chilling; it has the dust of thought about it and the particles glitter excitingly in the theatrical air." N.Y. Times .
"A stimulating, funny, imaginative comedy." N.Y. Daily News.