AUDITION NOTICES
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AUDITION NOTICE
WORLD PREMIERE!
STALIN IN SIBERIA
Written and directed by Lewis Cowen
Performing dates: May 18 to 23 2026
Audition date: Tuesday October 21 at 7pm in the theatre bar
In November 1913 Josef Vissiaronovich Djugashvili, later to be known to the world as Stalin, was finally arrested by the Czarist secret police, the Okhrana, and exiled to Turukhansk in Siberia. He and fellow Bolshevik, Jakob Sverdlov, plotted to escape but their plans were betrayed and they were sent even deeper into Siberia, to the tiny settlement of Kureika, almost on the Arctic Circle. There Stalin had an affair with 13-year-old orphan, Lidia Pereprygina, by whom he had a surviving son. Stalin also became involved with the local hunters who taught him that hunting was much harder in the tundra than in sunny Georgia and that ruthlessness was essential to live.
Characters: Josef Vissiaronovich Djugashvili, alias Stalin (36)
Jakob Mikhaelovich Sverdlov (25-35)
Fyodor Taraseev, head man of Kureika settlement (50-70)
Elizaveta Taraseeva, aka Babushka, wife of Fyodor (50-60)
Lidia Pereprygina, a 13-year-old orphan (to be played by someone at least 16)
Martin Alexeivich Peterin, a hunter (40s)
Kostoglotov and Dvorin, two other hunters (40s, 50s)
Captain Ivan Kabirov, Chief of Police of Turukhansk district (40-50)
Constable Sergei Ramirovich Laletin, a police officer (20-30)
Galina Galitzina, a Major in the KGB (40-50)
Rehearsals will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from the beginning of February.
Copies of the script are available from Lewis on or phone him on 07523 050961.
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How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn
Co-directed by Stephen and Susan Keyes
Auditions: Sunday, 2nd November 10 am at the Wharf Theatre
Rehearsal schedule to be confirmed, possibly Tuesday and Thursday evenings commencing mid December
Date of performance March 16-21, 2026
For more information and sight of the script please contact or 07740 107413
Synopsis
How the Other Half Loves is an Alan Ayckbourn masterpiece. There’s an affair afoot but who exactly is romantically involved with whom. Confusion reigns, misunderstandings multiply and the ensuing chaos provides the perfect platform for a riotous evening of farce set in the 70s
Characters
This is a 6 hander so we are looking for a strong cast who more or less share a similar quantity of lines.
Frank Foster 50 to 70
A successful company director who we strongly suspect of the “old school tie” route to the top. Frank bumbles and stumbles his way through life and his dealings with the world.
Fiona Foster 40 to 60
The long suffering wife of Frank ,a well spoken social climber who has reached the top and wants to stay there. She is having an affair with Bob to compensate for her unemotional husband.
Bob Phillips 30 to 40
Bob is an all action man’s man with just a touch of 70s misogynist about him. Strong willed and capable of anything, he works for Frank but is secretly dating Fiona.
Teresa Phillips
Bob’s wife and mother to his only child. a bored housewife who fills her time writing endless letters to the press. In the 60s she was the epitome of “hippy” but now finds herself in a stormy marriage.
William Featherstone 20 to 40
A nerdy junior member of Frank’s team, but he wants promotion and sucks up to Frank to get it. William certainly rules the roost at home but although ambitious lacks the finer social skills to really get on in life.
Mary Featherstone 20 to 40
Poor Mary. Timid, abused and adoring second fiddle to William she’ll go along with anything he suggests until her inner steel is finally exposed.