Audition Casting Call – For Plonk!
Auditions will now be held at KITE CRES on TUESDAY 3RD DECEMBER at 7.00pm
There are 7 characters:
Character Information:
Heather Watson: A lady in her final years of life, but sprightly, nonetheless. She is well-spoken and well dressed. This is the smallest part and she only appears in the first scene.
Jill Mason: She’s the domestic help for Heather Watson and becomes a live-in companion. A little naive in some ways, but sharp in others.
Russell Goodman: An everyday run-of-the-mill person whose job is a farm labourer/manager for Heather Watson.
Maxine Jackson: She works on the vines at the vineyard. Quite forthright in her manner she enjoys nothing more than wine with a kick. Although masculine in looks and with a no-nonsense manner, she doesn’t come across as butch.
Richard Daniels: Married to Lynne Daniels with a playing age of forty-five years and upwards. He owns the neighbouring farm to Heather Watson and is quite a normal ‘country’ type of person. He plays being a husband under his wife’s thumb a little in Act One, but takes control and asserts himself in Act Two.
Lynne Daniels: Wife to Richard Daniels with a playing age compatible to her husband. Quite a stern person with greed in her nature and preferring to be in control.
Detective Harman: Any playing age suitable for a police detective, and the role can be male or female. Quite an ordinary person but with little humour.
What’s the storyline?
This comedic murder mystery play is set in the sitting room of the farmhouse at Worth Farm and Vineyard. Heather Watson hatches a plan that in her final handful of years of life, she will have a little fun promising various people they will be her sole beneficiary to the entire farm and vineyard in return for a reduction in their current wages. Each person is sworn to secrecy and is not to mention this arrangement to anyone else.
One evening when all five are invited to a gathering, Heather is murdered by one of them in her bedroom. Heather’s solicitor provides each on them with a letter from the now deceased Heather, and it soon becomes apparent that they have all been given the same false promise of inheritance, because in reality, they each only receive two cases of wine