Audition Notice

The End of History…, by Jack Thorne

Sunday 3rd January 2021, 4pm

As part of our Covid-19 Secure measures, please note that audition slots must be booked in advance. You will not be allowed to audition if you just turn up on the day.

Director: Faye Woodbridge

Production Dates: 9th - 13th March 2021

Rehearsals: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 31st January (with some flexibility considered). REHEARSALS WILL BE SOCIALLY DISTANCED AND ARE ALLOWED UNDER GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES.

For more information, please contact Faye on faye.woodbridge@gmail.com.

About the Play

Sal and David would rather feed their kids with leftist ideals and welfarism than fancy cuisine. Its 1997 and they have managed to get their brood back home for the weekend. Eldest son Carl is bringing home his new girlfriend, middle daughter Polly is back from Cambridge Uni, and youngest Tom will hopefully make it out of detention in time for dinner. Funny, moving, antagonistic…family.

Set in the family home over 30 years – 1997, 2007, 2017 – everyone will play the characters at their multiple ages. We will not be doing old age makeup.

Please note – I will not be looking for familial resemblance in casting. I do not care about ethnicity, race, disability or other physical aspect.

The only thing that will affect my casting is that, ideally, the people playing the children will be within the same age range in real life; everyone will have to play mid-teens / early-twenties, mid-twenties / early-thirties and mid-thirties / early-forties so to keep it clear I will try to cast everyone within one of those groupings.

Characters

Sal - Loving but firm, the driving force of the family. Passionate, and well intentioned, wants the best for her children but doesn’t always go about it in the way they would like. Not in Act 3. Playing age: 46 & 56

David - The father of the family. Uncomfortable with what his children choose to live their lives. Loves them but doesn’t understand them; doesn’t always try to. Loves his wife dearly. Playing age: 51, 61, & 71

Polly - Sal & David’s middle child.  Strong willed, very intelligent, a little self-obsessed, and ambitious. Not always tactful. Playing age: 19, 29 & 39

Carl - Oldest of the children. Coasting on potential in his younger years but not necessarily able to follow through as well as he thought he would. Not particularly close to his siblings. Playing age: 20, 30 & 40

Tom - The baby of the family. Troubled and not as strong as his siblings. Trying to find his way in the world and not finding it. Struggles with life. Playing age: 17, 27 & 37

Harriet - Carl’s girlfriend. From far more wealth than the family and religious. Finds herself pregnant and unmarried at 21. Doesn’t fit in with the family, ends up not trying to. Not it Act 3. Playing age: 21 & 31

BLT actively encourages auditionees from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities and any of the above parts could be played by any race.