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STRATHCLYDE THEATRE GROUP IS A CHARITABLE BODY, REGISTERED IN SCOTLAND (SC042388)

JANUARY 2012

Hello and Happy New Year!

STG has lots of exciting things lined up for the rest of this season and more details will be includin the January newsletter to be sent out next week. There are still lots of opportunities coming uto get involved onstage and backstage.

In the meantime we have auditions coming up next week for Mike Leighs Abigails Party, detailbelow.

Wishing everyone a happy, productive and fulfilling 2012

Debbie and Sara on behalf of the STG Board

AUDITION NOTICE

Abigail's Party directed by Peter Lamb

Production Dates: 19th Mar 2012 - 23rd Mar 2012

Rehearsal Dates: commencing somewherebetween 6th and 13th Feb.

Audition Dates: Mon 16th Jan - Thurs 19th Jan (in

20 min slots from 7 pm to 10 pm each evening)

Venue: The Brunswick Hotel Penthouse

The Sixties are over. And the Seventies has so far failed to deliver on the prior decade's promiseequality and free love. So begins Mike Leigh's seminal devised comedy of class and manners,Abigail's Party. The party in question is for Susan's daughter's fifteenth birthday.

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The characters of the play reflect the aspirations of the times, however they have all in many wayfailed to achieve their dreams and hopes for fulfillment. Resentments grow throughout the coursof the play escalating to its disastrous climax.

It's a funny play about failing to have fun. However, the party in question is someone else's partysomeone else's fun. The grass is always greener...

Characters (ages are merely a rough guide. Could be played by younger actors.)Beverly (early - mid 30s) - Laurence's wife. An unintentionally monstrous woman of innerdesolation. Beverly dominate/domineers the action of the play in her efforts to have the perfectmiddle-class social gathering.

Laurence (mid 30s) - Beverly's husband. Officious, pedantic and smug workaholic. Not as capabor well-cultured as he imagines he is or would like to be.

Angela (mid - late 20s) - Tony's wife. A nurse, befriended by Beverly. She finds it difficult to cometo the foreground in her social interactions with others.

Tony (late 20s) - Angela's husband. An primally agressive, curt man and an ex-footballer. A manfew words.

Susan (late 30s - mid 40s) - Separated. Abigail is her daughter, the unseen character of the title.Susan is a self-effacing woman of weakened confidence and self-esteem.

The play is set in 1977 outside of Essex. This setting/era will be maintained for the play andtherefore a middle-class London accent will be required.

Further info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail%27s_Party

For the audition, you will be required to prepare a 2 minute piece from a contemporary play

(preferably containing an element of comedy).

Arrange your audition slot with Peter directly via email ap.lamb@ntlworld.com (preferred methodIf you don't have access to email, then you can call him on his mobile 07837 195 706 instead.

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