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OK, the plan is for Whisky Priestess of this vicinity and I, your enfeebled correspondent, to put on two thematically-linked one-act plays, 'Sleighbells Roasting' and 'The Ad Man's New Year' in north London this summer. Both are about a young(ish) man on a fast-track career path who, for differing reasons in each play, attempts to pass off an East European escort girl as his true lady love during a visit to his family home, and are, respectively, a black comedy of manners, and an absurdist farce. 'Sleighbells Roasting' is published playwright and award-winning poet WP's work, and 'The Ad Man's New Year' is, erm... well it's by me.
So this is a thread for anyone who knows anyone who might be interested in performing, basically.
The roles on offer are;
Tone - A shambling bear of a financier in his early thirties, who has various issues to do with Christmas.
Irina - A world-weary Russian escort in her mid-to-late twenties, who, while accustomed to dealing with a certain amount of unusual behaviour in her professional life, finds herself, in this case, a bit out of her depth.
Jack - A slightly down-at-heel actor, mid-fifties, and fond of the odd scotch, who Tone has hired to play the part of his father.
Jean - Jack's wife, another actor, hired to play Tone's mother.
Bill - A twentysomething advertising creative who just wants to write poetry, for heaven's sake, and drink gin, and take cocaine.
Tanya - An escort girl in her early twenties, and sometime
avant garde ventriloquist, who specialises in channeling the undead spirit of a Nazi crocodile, Alphonse.
Mr Waters - A northern industrialist in his Fifties, who, as Bill's long-suffering father, just wants him to move back to Yorkshire and take over the family business, a textile factory.
Mrs Waters - Bill's equally long-suffering mother.
Stuart - The head of Bill's company, a Scottish advertising executive and self-styled man of the arts in his early Forties.
Andrew - In charge of sales at Bill's workplace, mid-thirties, angry.
Wendy - Andrew's partner, and the head of the creative side at Bill's agency, also angry.
This'll probably require about four weeks of (evening and weekend) rehearsal, plus a week's performance, the proposed theatre (the Etcetera) seems pretty good, and if the production actually makes a profit, the cash will be split up equally between who so ever takes part. Essential expenses (travel, drinks after the show) will also be covered.
Scripts and further details available on request. |
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