Audition Casting Announcement- For Saving Frogton’s Home
Prince Frogton – Declan Woods
Millicent- Danielle Linegar
Don Key- Janelle Watson
Al Bino- Drew Egan
Zeb- Jack Scott
McKendrick- Joonaton Mansbridge
Princess- Nakita Newell
Granny Smith – Jeanie Feros
Big Mike – Theodore Walsh-Pommersheim
Witch- Katriina Mansbridge
Abby- Lilly Brosnan
What’s the storyline?
To find a little magic, you only have to look!
Saving Frogton’s Home is a light- hearted comical pantomime that explores the importance of protecting our native species. The audience interacts with the characters through song and dance whilst cheering on the heroes and booing the villains.
It’s Zeb’s birthday and as he blows out the candles on his cake, he wishes for a best friend. Instead, he receives an anonymous crystal ball with an annoying pixie living in it. What’s worse, he must learn to use it.
Together, and with the help of the magical fairytale characters of the Frog Prince (Brothers Grimm) and with some new ones added in for a laugh, Zeb learns why he must do everything in his power to stop the developers from turning the precious home of an army of endangered Southern Barred frogs into a large shopping centre, even if that means overcoming his fears. If Zeb finds his magic, his birthday wish might just come true, bigger and better than ever.
Note from the Director
A theatre needs a play, a play needs a playwright, and a playwright seeks to find subjects. Once the subject is found, a playwright then uses their imagination to reveal the truth, through their writing. The subject for Saving Frogton’s Home came to me in the school playground. As a primary school teacher, I am often asked unprecedented questions.It was one of these questions that came from a very curious six-year-old student “What’s it like to be a frog?” Finding out led to the creation of the play Saving Frogton’s Home, a way ofstorytelling through theatre which can shape children’s understanding of the world.
My aim is to give our audience a play of hope. It is not just a cathartic experience of feeling happily satisfied, seeing, and hearing the play but act towards a positive future for the planet by being inspired to be a little more environmentally and community conscious.
Enjoy!
For more information contact the director, Karen Kester at – artisticdirector@murwillumbahtheatrecompany.com.au