Auditions Archives – Wokingham Theatre

AUDITION NOTICE: Love From a Stranger

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. Synopsis Cecily has spent her twenties in a dull office job. After winning the lottery with her flatmate, she finally has the chance for some adventure. Enter Bruce Lovell, a handsome and charming stranger who sweeps her off her feet. In a whirlwind romance, she recklessly abandons her job, friends, and fiancé to settle in the remote and blissful surroundings of a country cotta

AUDITION NOTICE: Home I’m Darling

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. IJudy and Johnny are trying to turn their backs on modern day life and live by the values and behaviour of the 1950s. The play explores the gender roles of both eras and the impact of trying to live this pretend lifestyle on relationships, work and happiness. The play won the Olivier award as best comedy in 2019 and is a nuanced examination about some of the lies we tell oursel

AUDITION NOTICE: Pressure

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. In the tense hours leading up to D-Day, meteorologist James Stagg finds himself at the center of a high-stakes battle over the weather forecast. With the fate of Operation Overlord hanging in the balance, Stagg must navigate conflicting opinions from colleagues like the ambitious Colonel Irving P. Krick, appease the formidable General Eisenhower, and even find solace in the com

AUDITION NOTICE: The Truth

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. Premiered in London in 2016, this is a brilliantly cruel comedy, and an unsettling tale of infidelity. Two couples. Friendship, suspicion, deceit… and the truth. Michel and his wife Laurence are happily married. Michel’s best friend Paul is also happily married, to Alice. But Michel and Alice are having an affair, and Laurence seems to know that something’s going on. How far wi

AUDITION NOTICE: The Game’s Afoot

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. The Game’s Afoot is a fast-paced comedy mystery with razor sharp dialogue and larger than life characters. It is set in 1936 and centres around William Gillette, the actor/ playwright who made his name playing Sherlock Holmes for many years in the early part of the 20th century. He invites his actor friends to his mansion near New York for Christmas. There is, of course, a mur

AUDITION NOTICE: The Dresser

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. The Dresser is a wonderfully affectionate, irreverent, touching and intelligent play about the theatre. Set in the days of the tradition of the actor-manager – often a tyrannical figure, who demanded hard work, devotion and loyalty from the members of his company. The play revolves around the central relationship between ‘Sir’ an ageing actor-manager and his long-sufferin

AUDITION NOTICE: Entertaining Angels

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. The 􏰀irst play of our next Season will be Entertaining Angels by Richard Everett in September, and auditions are being held later this month. As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour. Now, following the death of her husband Bardolph , she is enjoying the new found freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases. But the return of her eccent

AUDITION NOTICE: Blithe Spirit

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. A comedy by Noel Coward, described by the author as ‘an improbable farce in thee acts’. Novelist Charles Condomine invites the eccentric Medium and Clairvoyant, Madam Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires however, when the ghost of Condomine’s first wife, Elvera, comes back causing disruption and ghostly unres

AUDITION NOTICE: Steel Magnolias

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling is a hysterical, heart-warming, iconic play. Set in the fictional north-western Louisiana parish of Chinquapin, the play follows the trials and tribulations of six fierce and sassy women as they set the world to rights in their small-town, bustling beauty salon. The characters use humour and light-hearted conversations, expressed in their “wond

AUDITION NOTICE: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. Synopsis Jean Brodie’s progressive approach to education comes to create friction with the more conventional school life at Marcia Blaine. Set in Edinburgh in the 1930’s the play follows the relationships between Brodie and her chosen set of girls as well as with some of her fellow staff members. In ‘her prime’ Brodie is magniicent but in the end ‘the establishment’ will prevai