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Life Without Me
15 June @ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
by Daniel Keene
DIRECTED by Megan Dansie
Award winning director Megan Dansie directs the SA premiere of this whimsical Australian play.
Date: Saturday, 15th June 2024 from 2.00pm
Location: The Church of Epiphany Hall, Crafers (directions provided on booking a slot)
Cast: 4 male (ages – late 20s to 50s), 3 female (ages – late 20s to 70s)
Season: Friday, 28th March to Saturday, 12th April 2025, with performances on Friday to Sunday.
Rehearsals: Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons, either in the Stirling Community Theatre or a nearby hall commencing late January, 2025
Auditions: In small groups
The play:
A funny, honest and heart-warming story that invites us to question life, or at least our own.
Nigel is the clerk for a run-down 2 star hotel owned by his mother. The hotel (and its toaster) proves to be as dysfunctional as its occupants. As a storm traps the guests in the hotel, they come to discover what they really want, or perhaps need, out of life.
Characters:
All ages are very approximate stage ages
Nigel: A hotel clerk (30s to 40s). Ability with physical comedy a plus. Nigel is nonchalant rather than welcoming; querulous rather than patient. He hasn’t a pen for guests to sign the register, but questions the effectiveness of using a pencil.
John: Guest (40s +), wants to leave the town and start a new life and is in some emotional stasis at the start of the play. He is a man alone, and if not content with that, at least without hope that anything will change.
Roy: Travelling salesman (50s +). Appears confident, but his life is currently a bit lost and he wants to recapture his golden years. He is divorced with a grown-up son.
Roy arrives at the hotel and meets someone from his past or are they?
Alice: Guest (50s +). She is waiting to move into her new life.
Mrs Spence: Nigel’s mum (60s-70s). Her daffiness and mothering conceal a broken heart.
Tom: Guest & Ellen’s husband (late 20s-30s) They’ve been together since they were kids, and they’ve come from interstate to the hotel to try to renew their relationship.
Ellen: Guest & Tom’s wife (late 20s-30s) Like Tom she may not want the life she is in.
To book an audition time, please contact John Graham at contactstirlingplayers@gmail.com. Audition selections with then be emailed out.
For further information feel free to contact the director – phone: 0413 800 221 or email: mdansie42@gmail.com
