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ABOUT THE PLAY

\\\'Standing Ovation Productions\\\' are about to put on a one night performance of Suff\\\'ring, fringe theatre director Helena Pickford\\\'s magnum opus, a hard-hitting tale of women\\\'s suffrage, 100 years after women over the age of 30 won the ability to vote. However, with minutes to go until the play\\\'s beginning, all hell breaks loose...

With a lead actress halfway across London, a family of four trapped on set, extra-marital love affairs, Moldovan melodramatics, a drunken octogenarian and body-bags, things aren\\\'t looking up for Helena and her producer Kim...not to mention that they\\\'ll have to use the props, sounds, costume and a couple of actors from the play on before them. Oh...and the play before them was a Vietnam War epic.

There\\\'s a Hollywood director and Millicent Fawcett\\\'s granddaughter in the audience, so whatever happens the play must start, even if it means their careers will end...

Suff\\\'ring is a new farce from the writers at StraightUp Productions (Mark Bittlestone, Will Dalrymple and Will Penswick).

AUDITION TIMES/DATES/LOCATION
Thurs 21 Dec 1-5pm, Bread & Roses Theatre, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ (Not accessible to wheelchairs)

Fri 22 Dec 10am-2pm, Deli Studios Broadgate (Rehearsal Studio 2), 2 Finsbury Ave, London EC2M 2PA (Accessible to wheelchairs)

HOW TO AUDITION
Below is a google doc with more information about the play and the roles. Once you’ve given it a read, could you fill out the google form? After that’s been filled in, it will give you a link to a doodle poll that you can fill in to get an audition slot! Any questions, feel free to reply on here or to will.dalrymple@straightupproductions.com.

GOOGLE DOC: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lILNYKu638wurDGl07YlIG-5B3_rFladgVRt743vDN4/edit?usp=sharing

GOOGLE FORM: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1R8Wm1A-BDOwz551Srh2v25FDSZAIpQmvKfjZmolWFKo

AUDITION PIECES (take a look at a few of your choice): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dBc4iYLQBKBdBWVk1Y9ffgq_6is10H0y?usp=sharing


WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Cast of 16 mixed gender actors (9 FEMALE, 7 MALE), ranging from late teens to elderly.

With a couple of exceptions, we are not looking for actors of any particular ethnicity or accent (the play is set in London, so anything goes!) or physicality.
Rehearsals will start on 2nd January and will be in and around central London in the two weeks leading up to the show.
Most will have to be on weekday mornings and cast will be expected to be available on the weekend of 14th/15th January in the run up to the show.
Actors can be of any experience, really we are looking for people excited to be in a dark comedy that has played well already and - we hope - will go further!
We are not able to pay actors a fee per se for such a short run, but are happy to be totally up front about all the costs involved and to throw and pay for a cast party after the run.

HOW TO AUDITION?
All suitable applicants will be sent a Google Doc with info about the show and a Google form to fill in with some key info.

Once you have done that you will receive a doodle poll from us so you can sign up for a slot. Once you have done that, your audition is CONFIRMED! All you need to do is turn up. If you cannot make auditions email us and we’ll see if we can arrange a video audition


ABOUT STRAIGHTUP PRODUCTIONS

StraightUp Productions is a theatre and new writing company comprising recent university graduates Will Dalrymple, Mark Bittlestone and Will Penswick. StraightUp\\\'s first two productions Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays and The Oppression Olympics both played at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe. Pity Laughs received 5 stars from Broadway Baby, which described it as \\\'the first true gem of the 2017 fringe\\\', while The Oppression Olympics was one of The Fringe Review\\\'s \\\'recommended shows\\\', who described it as \\\'a brilliant, tightly crafted piece of writing, full of belly-laughs but with an undercurrent that chills\\\'.

StraightUp’s first London show, Will Dalrymple\\\'s adaptation of Tristram Shandy, played at the OSO Centre theatre in Barnes from November 7-8 to excellent reviews. London Theatre 1 gave it four stars and wrote ‘in short: it’s really rather good’, while A Younger Theatre described it as ‘An enchanting performance, with incredible innovations flowing from every scene\\\'. StraightUp aims to continue to produce accessible, entertaining comedy and theatre in London Off West End theatres and Fringe festivals around the UK.

Suff\\\'ring will be directed by Will Penswick and Mark Bittlestone, who directed several productions at the University of Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin.
Rehearsal / production dates

REHEARSALS
3rd - 15th January, timings flexible to a degree depending on availability.

PRODUCTION
16th-18th, 20th January, 8pm, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes.

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