Auditions: Wednesday 27th November at 7.30pm

 

The Nomad spring production will be the classic black farce, Arsenic and Old Lace, written by Joseph Kesselring and described as “ frenzied, hilarious and madcap”. You may never have seen the stage play but most likely have watched the famous Cary Grant film, included in the best 100 films ever made. Written in 1941, Arsenic and Old Lace is not only a classic comedy - it is a superb black comedy.

A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. His maiden aunts, Abby and Martha, have a very different view of life where charity certainly begins at home, but not in the conventional sense. Watching their nephew Mortimer struggle with his aunts’ version of reality is, if you’ll pardon the pun, killingly funny. His brother, Jonathan - of dubious mental state with a string of random murders to his name - and his sidekick, the dipsomaniac Dr Einstein, are treated as little more than a pair of wayward schoolboys. Add to the mix brother Teddy, who thinks he’s President Roosevelt, a bemused fiancee and her father, four police officers (three of whom are not really that bright), a potential lodger and the superintendent of a sanatorium, and this great comedy is the result.

There are 14 parts on offer (some of them minor) so opportunities for all.

The final audition is on Wednesday, 27th, at 7.30 pm (on the main stage). I’ll be glad to see anyone who has already attended for another chance but I do hope as many of you as possible will come. We can already cast Abby and Martha, the two elderly leading ladies but will be looking particularly for actors to fill the following roles:

Major

Mortimer (20′s/early 30′s)

Jonathan (late 30′s)

Teddy (early 40′s)

Dr. Einstein (any age, probably 40′s/50′s)

Elaine (late 20′s)

Minor (but just as important)

Four Police Officers ( 20′s/40′s), could include a woman

Three Older Men

 

 

 

The director is Alan Wiseman

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