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Open Auditions for Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton
Directed by David Shough
Monday and Tuesday, January 27-28, 2025, 7-9pm
Beavercreek Community Theatre
You need only attend one night, but are welcome at both. If you cannot attend either audition date, contact the director at [email protected] or 937-626-2674, and we will make time or permit a video audition. Performance dates: March 7-16, 2025; Friday - Sunday. Rehearsals will generally be Monday through Thursday evenings, subject to cast schedules.
Seeking:
2 men and 3 women, plus two non-speaking police officers who appear at the end of the play. Race is not relevant to any role. All races & ethnicities are encouraged to audition.
Mr. Manningham - good looking, about forty-five. He is heavily moustached and bearded and perhaps a little too well dressed. His manner is suave and authoritative, with a touch of mystery and bitterness.
Mrs. Manningham, Bella - about thirty-four. She has been good-looking, almost a beauty - but now she has a haggard, wan, frightened air, with rings under her eyes that tell of sleepless nights and worse.
Elizabeth, a servant - strong, amiable, and subservient woman of fifty; loyal to Bella.
Nancy, a servant - a self-conscious, pretty, cheeky girl of nineteen; she much prefers the master than the mistress.
Detective Rough - Middle-aged, graying, active, brusque, friendly, and overbearing. He has a low warm chuckle and completely dominates the scene from the beginning.
The Play:
A 1938 play, originally titled Gaslight (and the source of the psychological meaning of that word), it had one of the longest runs on Broadway for a non-musical and was adapted into a notable 1944 film starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in the Manningham roles, and young Angela Landsbury, in her film debut, as Nancy.
The full script is available online at
https://coldreads.wordpress.com/2020/09/15/angel-street/ With the heroine in distress, the manipulative husband, and the sturdy detective here to save the day, the play gives homage to the melodramas of the past but has more the sense of a thriller.
The characters are vivid and their emotions on full display.
The Audition:
Audition sides will be available for download in early January.
British accents are required for all actors.
Please bring a resume and a list of all conflicts through March 16, 2025.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
3868 Dayton Xenia Rd, Beavercreek, OH, United States
