AUDITIONS at Milnerton Playhouse for
TOM, DICK and HARRY - a comedy
By Ray and Michael Cooney
Directed by Johann van der Merwe
Fasten your seat belts and be warned auditionees - this hilarious comedy takes you on a rough ride! And here’s the story! We’re looking for nine characters with comedy acting skills. The three brothers are no ordinary Tom, Dick and Harry! Tom and his wife Linda are in the final stages of adopting a baby, and are nervously awaiting the inspection and final approval of the unforgiving, formidable head of the adopting agency, Mrs. Potter. However, rogue brothers Dick and Harry throw a spanner in the works: Dick, who shares the house with Tom and Linda, returns from a trip (having used Tom's delivery van without his knowledge) with goods he acquired illegally outside the borders, and two hidden refugees of whose presence he is totally unaware. Meanwhile brother Harry, whose work for a hospital involves disposing of cadavers used by medical students, embarks on an ambitious plan that involves burying body parts in the garden of the house that Tom and Linda are renting, in order to get the price reduced - seeing that they are trying to buy the house from the owner/landlord.
When a suspicious female police constable keeps popping in and sniffing around, it becomes increasingly more difficult for the beleaguered Tom to fabricate plausible explanations for the mayhem around him - especially since the refugee duo of granddaughter and grandmother (whose command of English is very limited) keeps appearing from closets and bedroom doors.
And when the master mind, criminal human refugee seller turns up to collect his money for goods delivered, more chaos is inevitable!
Rehearsals start mid-January 2023 and production dates: 4 -18 March 2023
LINDA - Tom's wife, 30ish/40ish. Even 20ish. Attractive and unflappable. Large part
TOM - the more grounded brother of the three; the one who has to juggle all the balls in the air simultaneously. Split second timing required. Age to synergise roughly with Linda's. Large part. DICK - older or younger than Tom. A real schemer but likeable. Large part. HARRY - older or younger than Tom. Like Dick, a real schemer too; and likeable. Even more rough around the edges perhaps. Large part.
MRS POTTER - a stickler for following rules. A real bureaucrat; no nonsense person. 50ish. Largish, recurring part. Female Constable DOWNS - this role could be played quite butch. Or not! She is very suspicious. Any employable age will do. Medium, recurring part. KATERINA - 20ish/30ish. The granddaughter refugee. Very rough around the edges; but female enough to attract Dick's attention. Medium, recurring part. Will be required to speak a foreign language phonetically (supplied in the text) as well as very bad English
ANDREA - the grandmother refugee. Age applicable to being the grandmother of Katerina. Same spoken language requirements as in Katerina's case. She gets gradually quite tipsy and unruly as she discovers more and more bottles of alcohol illegally brought across the border by Harry. Medium, recurring part. BORIS - the smooth, dangerous looking, human trafficker thug. Real character part. Small - but important – part.
Details: Audition dates: Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 October 2022 at 14.00 at the Milnerton Playhouse in Pienaar Road, Milnerton
For more information, please contact the director:
Johann van der Merwe
johann1wp@gmail.com /083 680 6160
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