SLT Audition
Auditions: Gundog
By Simon Longman
Audition one
Date: 10 Mar 2024
Time: 10:00 - 12:45
Location: SLT - SE27 9NS
Audition two
Date: 11 Mar 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:00
Location: SLT - SE27 9NS
Gundog by Simon Longman explores the impact of love, loss, hope and aging in a brilliantly inventive way. The play focuses on sisters Becky and Anna, who are shepherds on a farm in the middle of nowhere. Without really meaning to they have inherited the occupation of their family following the death of their mother. Time is always moving somewhere - but here it’s very quiet. The sisters discover a stranger, Guy, wandering aimlessly across their farm. In return for refuge, he helps them during the lambing season. The three strike up an unlikely partnership, determined to survive and navigate their changed lives.
Director: Ella McIvor and Meréana Tomlinson
Performances: 25 - 29 Jun 2024
First Rehearsal: 21 Apr 2024
Characters:
BECKY : F, 15-20 - Ben and Anna’s younger sister. Becky’s dry humour and quick wit show in her sharpness of dialogue.
ANNA: F, 15-20 - Ben’s younger sister and Becky’s older sister. Anna is a controlled character; she bears most of the family responsibilities readily in a fine example of restraint.
GUY: M, 17-23 - A stranger to the farm. He is recessive, urban and clumsy as he awkwardly adjusts to the rural life of the farm.
BEN: M, 20-27 - Becky and Anna’s older brother. Filled with resentment at the monotony of the life his family left for him, he returns to his sisters unannounced and hostile.
MICK: M, 40-65 - The grandfather of Ben, Anna and Becky. Mick’s early-onset dementia means he often burst into scenes to colourfully describe a story that the others have all heard before.
Should you wish to audition for a role please prepare a post-modern or contemporary monologue from a play of your choosing.
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