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Pantomime auditions for PHA production of PETER PAN at the Marina Theatre in Lowestoft

Auditions for the Lost Boys

Paul Holman Associates and Marina Theatre, Lowestoft are seeking actors to play the roles of John Darling, Michael Darling and the Lost Boys in their 2018 production of The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan.

All applicants must be…

• Confident
• Enthusiastic
• Disciplined

And should have…

• Clear speaking voices
• Some singing & dancing ability

John & Michael – aged between 9 – 14 years may apply, and should not exceed 5’0” in height.

Lost Boys – aged between  9-14 may apply and should not exceed 5’0” in height.

Michael is the youngest & smallest of the brothers, with an ideal playing age of 7-8 years old.

John, his older brother, has an ideal playing age of 11-13.

Rehearsals starting: Saturday 2^nd December 2018

Performances starting:  Wed 13 December 2018

Performances closing:  Mon 1 January 2019

Auditions will be held at the Marina Theatre, Lowestoft on

Saturday 22^nd September, with registration at 11.30am.

Parental/Guardian consent

All children attending auditions should be accompanied by a parent/guardian who will need to sign a parental permission form on the audition day to agree participation & media coverage.  If the child is not attending with their own parent/guardian, then the form can be obtained by emailing Will  Isgrove, Head of  Young People and Outreach at the Marina Theatre, at –willisgrove@marinatheatre.co.uk.  The signed form must be brought along on audition day.

Availability

Successful children must be available for the whole rehearsal & performance period from Saturday 2^nd December to Tuesday 1 January 2019.

They should also live & go to school within a maximum of 30 minutes travel time from the Marina Theatre.  There may be some weekend rehearsals scheduled prior to the main rehearsal period, which are to be confirmed. They may need to miss some school term time.

There is no need to pre-prepare anything for this audition – just turn up on the day and script and basic movement will be set.

Further information

This year, the stars of the panto include Eastenders’ Sid Owen as Captain Hook & Anthony Sahota from TV’s Let It Shine, alongside Lowestoft’s returning favourites Terry Gleed & Fenton Gray.

For further information, please contact Will Isgrove – willisgrove@marinatheatre.co.uk

 

Staged by the Classic Spring Theatre Company, the Oscar Wilde Season will be broadcast live to Marina Theatre from the Vaudeville Theatre in the heart of London’s West End.

Tuesday 9 October is The Importance of Being Earnest followed in 2019 with a season of Wilde Wednesdays;

• Wednesday Jan 23rd – A Woman of No Importance
• Wednesday February 27th – Lady Windermere’s Fan
• Wednesday March 27th   – An Ideal Husband

Classic Spring is the new theatre company from Dominic Dromgoole, former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe. The company’s first season is a year-long celebration of the late genius Wilde, one aiming to provide a much fuller picture of the man and the artist, revealing this much-loved but complex playwright as the brilliant renegade he was in his own time.

Dominic Dromgoole will personally direct the first play A Woman of No Importance, starring Olivier Award-winning actor Eve Best as Mrs Arbuthnot and BAFTA-nominated Anne Reid as Lady Hunstanton, alongside Eleanor Bron and William Gaunt.

Multi-award-winning actor, director, comedian and playwright Kathy Burke will then direct Lady Windermere’s Fan, bringing together a talented comedic cast including the Olivier Award winning actress Samantha Spiro as Mrs Erlynne, Kevin Bishop as Lord Darlington, and guest starring Jennifer Saunders as the Duchess of Berwick, marking her return to the West End stage for the first time in over twenty years.

Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Classic Spring, comments: “Oscar Wilde was a lover of the modern in all its forms, and I’m sure the idea that his plays could now be broadcast live to so many people, in so many places, would have delighted him. We are very pleased that these glorious plays are going to reach an even wider audience and have life beyond their runs in the West End.”

Short Q&A with Bing Live director Will Tuckett about the Magic of Bing Live

We caught up with Bing Live director Will Tuckett as the tour heads out around the country and asked him how things are going.

“Watching audiences around the country watching Bing Live has been a wonderful experience. When people are watching something and enjoying it, it’s one of the best things imaginable. A little girl behind me stood on her mother’s lap the other day singing one of the songs in the show at the top of her lungs without much sense of tune or rhythm, but the look on her face and her mum’s face, and her grandpa’s… and the gusto with which she joined in… she was just totally loving it without any filter whatsoever! If you could take that home, that joy and energy, and pop it in a drawer so you could take it out whenever things felt a bit blue… well then you’d never have another grey day for the rest of your life”.

How has it been working with the Bing Live team bringing Bing to life with Puppetry?

“Tahra Zafar (The Bing Live Puppet and Costume designer) is an incredible collaborator. Not only is she very, very experienced from her time working cross a myriad of projects involving puppets and creature creation on Star Wars, Harry Potter and with Jim Henson, but she is also one of the most open and generous creative people one could hope to meet. Working out how to transfer 2D characters into a 3D world is never straightforward and we spent a lot of time in her studio working out dimensions for scale, puppet handles, grips, harnesses… and that’s before she starts looking at the mechanics to make the puppets blink, walk, stretch, have ears that move… the list goes on and on!  Wonderfully, when you look at the puppets you would never be aware of the complicated inner structures but that is the amazing thing about both Tahra and her incredibly talented team. They make the imagined real which is a pretty awesome skill!”

Bing Live here 6-7 February 2019

Prices:

 Full Price: £16.00

 Privilege Card: £14.00

To book, call 01502 533200.