Key for Two
Written By: John Chapman & Dave Freeman
Creative Team: Director: John Martin
Harriet is a divorcee who lives in an expensive Regency flat in the UK seaside city of Brighton. She is fact a ”kept woman” who has two lovers, both married men, who spend the night in her bed once a week on different days of the week. They are kept in order by the threat of the wrath of Harriet’s fictional wowser mother.
These men, unknown to each other, pay all of Harriet’s expenses. This idyllic situation has been going on for two years with Alec, the fishing trawler owner from the north of England and advertising guru Gordon who keeps chickens in his back yard.
So Harriet is well supplied with eggs and fish.
Then enters Harriet’s friend Anne, on the run from her drunken New Zealand husband Richard and from then on things start to unravel a twisted ankle leaves Gordon housebound, then sundry wives and husbands turn up unannounced and Harriet, quite brilliantly, lies her way through the morass with smiles, a quick wit and a disarmingly honest tone to her voice.
Audition Information: https://www.trybooking.com/DINJO
| Audition Information #:1 | |
| Date: | 31/01/2026 |
| Time From – Time to: | 13:00 – 17:30 |
| Audition Information #:2 | |
| Date: | 01/02/2026 |
| Time From – Time to: | 14:00 – 17:00 |
| Character Descriptions #:1 | |
| Role Name: | Harriet |
| Gender: | Female |
| Stage Age: | 40+ |
| Role Information: | A canny divorcee who orchestrates a complex schedule of her two married lovers to meet her financial needs. She is a master of lies and improvisation as her plan unravels into chaos. British Accent |
| Character Descriptions #:2 | |
| Role Name: | Gordon |
| Gender: | Male |
| Stage Age: | 40+ |
| Role Information: | One of Harriet’s married lovers (The Egg Man). He is forced to stay in her flat after spraining his ankle, which sets the farcical chain of events in motion. Upper Crust English Accent. |
| Character Descriptions #:3 | |
| Role Name: | Alec |
| Gender: | Male |
| Stage Age: | 40+ |
| Role Information: | Harriet’s second married lover (The Fish Man), who also turns up unexpectedly. Northern British Accent (Yorkshire). |
| Character Descriptions #:4 | |
| Role Name: | Anne |
| Gender: | Female |
| Stage Age: | 40+ |
| Role Information: | Harriet’s madcap friend who arrives unexpectedly after a tiff with her own husband. She initially becomes entangled in Harriet’s lies, posing as Gordon’s wife at one point. British Accent. |
| Character Descriptions #:5 | |
| Role Name: | Richard |
| Gender: | Male |
| Stage Age: | 40+ |
| Role Information: | Anne’s husband and Harriet’s ex-lover, who pursues Anne to the flat. Aust/ New Zealand Accent. |
| Character Descriptions #:6 | |
| Role Name: | Magda |
| Gender: | Female |
| Stage Age: | 40+ |
| Role Information: | Gordon’s irate wife, who arrives in search of her husband. Upper Crust English Accent. |
| Character Descriptions #:7 | |
| Role Name: | Mildred |
| Gender: | Female |
| Stage Age: | 40+ |
| Role Information: | Alec’s irate wife, also arriving in search of her husband. Northern British Accent (Yorkshire). |
More Information at: https://www.trybooking.com/DINJO
Contact: John Martin
phoenixvariety.musicgroup@gmail.com
0419 804 698
