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Happy to announce an audition for 45-mini musical produced by young creative artists.

Audition detail
Date: 24th of July
Time: 18:00 ~ 21:00
Place: Goldsmiths University (near New Cross Gate and New Cross station)

Performance detail
Payment: unpaid / Profit share
Performance date: in between 17th and 20th of September
Venue: Tristan bates theatre ( http://tristanbatestheatre.co.uk/ )
Expected Rehearsal period: From early August till the performance
Rehearsal place location: Goldsmiths University (near New Cross Gate and New Cross station)

Music and Lyrics: Katie Butler
Book and Lyrics: Olivia Carney
Director: Emma Butler ( http://www.ideastap.com/People/Emma_Butler )
Co-Producer: Euiwon Jung & Naoko Masugi

Synopsis
The untold story of Whitechapel’s lost daughters, Murder in Whitechapel explores the horrors of London’s treacherous East End through the eyes of Alice Nichols, daughter of Mary Ann Nichols, the first official victim of Jack the Ripper. Addressing themes of death, isolation and societal expectation, we journey with Alice in this coming of age narrative as she struggles to find her place, and purpose, within the desolation of 1888’s Whitechapel.

Character breakdown
ALICE NICHOLS / Female / 20~25
A lost young woman with a heart of gold, Alice is reserved yet determined to do what is right in a world that urges her to do what is wrong. As she attempts to stand by her mother through the dark and turbulent times of Victorian London, she realises her potential and discovers what she really wants from life, aside from being her mother’s carer. Due to her gentle nature, she is susceptible to being taken advantage of, something that is seen throughout the 45-minute musical extract. This is not to say that she is a pushover, just that she doesn’t value herself enough to fight back. As she begins to develop feelings for NICHOLAS SMITH, Alice doesn’t even begin to conceive that he could possibly have feelings for her, especially as she has the ballsy and alluring ISOBEL to contend with. As the extract concludes, Alice has begun to awaken to the world around her yet, she remains lost in a whole new realm of heartache, that of unrequited love.
 
NICHOLAS SMITH / Male / 20~25
Constable Nicholas Smith is a noble young man, upholding the law in a society that has become acclimatised to corruption and vice. A progressive liberal, he has socialist dreams of compassion and change in a world that neither listens nor cares. In ALICE he sees himself, and the man he is capable of being. He is aware of HENRY’S brutality and references some physical conflict gone wrong. This being said, he is not a man to fight with his fists, rather his words. He is a self-deprecating soul that uses humour to alleviate tension, in the sense of the most horrific situations where one must either laugh or cry. His compassion for mankind ignites a spark in ALICE that she has yet to see around Whitechapel. She trusts in him as he trusts in here, made clear in their first conversation. Whilst ISOBEL attempts to seduce NICHOLAS, it is clear he is not interest, mainly because of his feelings for ALICE, but also because she is a prostitute. He does not object to her profession, but the fact that she is playing in to the view of women as sexual objects, rather than human beings. He makes his excuses unsure of how to proceed because he has no idea to tell ALICE how he feels, especially as he is convinced she would never be interested in him.

ISOBEL ABBOT / Female / 20~25
Isobel appears as the stereotypical prostitute cliché, loud, brassy and altogether outlandish, however she is just as deceiving as MARY ANN, a pawn in Whitechapel’s corruption. Whilst in many ways Isobel is a comedic light in ALICE’s dark world, it’s obvious that Isobel prays on ALICE’s good nature, the very corruption she warns ALICE of. Whilst at times she appears to rectify her wrongdoing, it’s clear with the arrival of NICHOLAS that she is a truly venomous character who Alice is best off with out. However, at her heart, Isobel’s cruelty towards ALICE comes from a place of jealousy, unable to understand how someone as sweet as ALICE could remain so undeterred by the vice of Dorset Street. As she sees the obvious affection between NICHOLAS and ALICE she longs to be loved like that, despite wanting a life of fortune. She fails to place emotional value over the greed of material possession, which is her biggest failing. As she goes of the hunt for NICHOLAS she is convinced that she could seduce him (and any man), reducing them down to a sexual object as opposed to a thinking person, because, of course, NICHOLAS would not be interested.

MARY ANN NICHOLS / Female / 40~45
Mother to ALICE NICHOLAS, Mary Ann (or ‘Polly’ as she was known in Whitechapel), was the first victim of notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. An alcoholic, her husband and father cast Mary out on to the streets, as they could no longer fuel her lifestyle. She went from Workhouse to Maid and eventually ended up in prostitution as a string of petty thefts resulted in terminations. Within the musical, Mary represents the deception of addiction, demonstrating the lengths addicts go to ‘get a fix,’ manipulating her own child, the only person she has left in the world, to give her money. In her solo song, we glimpse at the woman behind the addiction, whilst knowing that all hope for her is lost.

CONSTABLE ARTHUR WEBB / Male / 25~30
Constable Henry Crabbe is a colleague of NICHOLAS, who pulls rank, but is actually of the same keeping. (NICHOLAS goes along with it, because he can’t be bothered to reduce himself to Crabbe’s level.) Crabbe is a horrible man who is as corrupt as they come, getting young women to perform in sexual acts to ‘buy’ themselves out of crimes. He frequents the brothels of Whitechapel, viewing sex as his divine right. He is a psychopath and is meant to be viewed as Jack the Ripper, though he is not.

Audition Call
E-mail: in4337@naver.com / masunao2006@gmail.com

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