Casting Teen Performers for "A Murder is Announced"
Audition for Agatha Christie's "A Murder is Announced" for actors 16+. Please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACEPTED. About the project: An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is not one of the house's several occupants, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death, and a determined inspector grimly following the case's twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution – at some risk to herself – in a dramatic final confrontation. Additional info: NO MONOLOGUE REQUIRED FOR AUDITIONS: Sides from the show will be provided at auditions for cold readings! Performances: May 31, 2024, & June 1, 2024, @ 7 pm, June 2, 2024, @ 2 pm. ANYONE UNDER 18, MUST BRING THIS SIGNED PARENTAL PERMISSION SLIP WITH THEM AT AUDITIONS. if interested, please apply.
7 roles
Julia is staying with her Aunt Lettie. She is studying pharmacy. Beautiful but difficult.
Julia’s brother, Patrick is a very handsome young man. A jokester, fights with Julia.
Lettie’s cook, Mitzi is dark and mid-European or Asian (e.g. Hungarian, Romanian, Yugoslavian, Chinese etc.). She is explosive, if not paranoid but is very funny.
Tall, rather elegant looking, blonde, and classy, Phillipa is a war widow with a young son.
A serious young man with pretensions of being a writer, Edmund is dark and foreign looking, though very British. Embarrassed by his mother. He is interested in Phillipa.
Rudi is a young Swiss national.
Mellors is Craddock’s assistant. Sometimes not too bright but diligent.
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