"Enchanted April" Auditions for Boys and Girls
Seeks actors ages 17+ for the first show of their 2025 season, "Enchanted April". Please see the details below. About the project: Enchanted April (the play) is based on the 1922 book The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. It follows four women who, dissatisfied with their dreary lives in post-WWI London, find each other and an Italian castle through a classified ad in a newspaper. Running from fractured relationships, the rain, and the past, they agree to share the castle for the month of April. In San Salvatore, they find friendship, joy, agency, and enchantment. If the magic of the Mediterranean can be worked on by their husbands and friends, the enchantment will be complete. Additional info: Actors may arrive at the Depot any time from 6:00-8:30 on the evening they are auditioning. Auditioners will sign up for an audition slot and audition when their name is called. Auditions are closed and will consist of monologues and cold readings from the script, as chosen by the director. Monologues will be available ahead of auditions. All auditioners will be asked to use a British accent during their audition. If interested, please apply.
5 roles
Hampstead housewife. She is candid, sincere and guileless, so much so that it both charms and annoys. Capable of great love, warmth, and openness, but unaware of her capacity for all, for now.
Lotty's husband. A handsome, distinguished and overbearing solicitor, who always knows what to say and how to say it. Used to commanding his wife in all things, he has long since discounted her as a lost cause and has found an acceptable state of tolerance. Meticulous in his appearance and ambitious in nature, Wilton moves through the world with ease because he is sure he understands it completely.
A ravishing, yet melancholy beauty seeking respite from the vapidity of London society. Caroline is the daughter of a prestigious, aristocratic family, a celebrity of sorts, but seeks a quiet place to think, alone. Blue blood through and through, but with a rebellious streak that shocks her family, Mrs. Graves, and herself.
An artist with a touch of the Bohemian about him. Wilding owns San Salvatore, and longs to fill it with a big family. Charming, disarming, and confident, he is smitten with Rose at first sight.
3-4 members of the San Salvatore staff, residents of the town of Mezzago, consisting of gardeners, stable workers, and cooks/housemaids. All love their master, Antony Wilding, fiercely, and are a bit befuddled by the “English ladies.”
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