Casting details

Silver Thread Productions is casting for its forthcoming production of ‘How’s the World Treating You?’ by Roger Milner which will run at the Union Theatre, Southwark from 13 March to 7 April 2012.

To apply please send a copy of your CV and photo, with a cover letter stating the part you wish to be considered and your reasons for applying to:
Silver Thread Productions casting
74c Streathbourne Road
London
SW17 8QY

Auditions:
Auditions will take place on 27 and 28 January.

Rehearsals:
Rehearsals will take place at the Union Theatre between 9.30am and 5.30pm on:
• Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th February
• Weekdays between 23rd February and 9th March
• Saturday 10th March

The technical and dress rehearsals will be on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th March. The play will run from Tuesdays to Saturdays at 7.30pm.

Expenses:
The production will pay actors expenses of £25 per week. Any profit will be shared between cast and crew (both our previous productions were profitable).

Character details:
All roles require excellent comic ability. Apart from Frank and Diedre, the same characters reappear in each act with different names and disguises (which could include different accents, though all characters are probably southern). The play’s three acts are set in England in 1946, 1956 and 1966.

Frank More
Aged 26 in Act One, 36 in Act Two and 46 in Act Three. A humane, warm, but rather passive ‘everyman’ character with a strong sense of duty. His hopeful attitude in Act One becomes one of suicidal despair by the end of the play.

Diedre
A love struck, heavily pregnant 16 year old in Act Two (Frank, her teacher, is the father). By Act Three she has become an unhappy, at times resentful, 26 year old with five children. Practical, with a tough streak. Far from innocent. Well spoken RP.

Colonel/Mr Cross/Mr Scace
Middle aged (45 to 60). Larger than life in every sense – domineering, loud and always in control. Character requires a sense of danger. Extrovert and rather bonkers. A brilliant, bold comic role.
 
Violet/Nell/Mrs Scace (Rover)
Middle aged (45 to 60). Throughout the play she is extremely positive and practical, at times can be inappropriately flirtatious, and is often rather slow on the uptake. A fantastic comic role.

Mike Holden/Geoff Horton/Jack Robinson
Early 20s. Good looking but not especially intelligent. A rather smug Army Captain in Act One, a flirtatious party guest in Act Two and a harassed, unsuccessful (and suicidal) washing machine salesman in Act Three.

Miss Clark/Stephanie/Miss Clegg
Early 20s. Very pretty with a warm manner. A friendly Army Corporal in Act One, a flirtatious party guest in Act Two and a not altogether helpful resident of Scace’s Suicide Sanctuary in Act Three.