Name: Audition - Women Only
Start: 2025-08-31T16:00:00+01:00
Location: 9 Clarence Gardens, BN1 2EG Brighton, United Kingdom

Audition Notice - Women Only by David Tristram
Directed by Carolyn Chinn
Audition Date: Sunday 31st August 2025, 4pm
Production Dates
28th October - 1st November 2025 at 7.30pm
Matinee 1st November at 2:30pm
Rehearsals
21st September - 27th October 2025 (days to be confirmed).
If you are unable to make the audition date and for more information and audition pieces, please contact Carolyn on [email protected]
In Women Only, newly divorced Laura drags her recently widowed mum, Ruth, to a dreary holiday “chalet” for what’s meant to be a relaxing and restorative mother-daughter holiday. But as the rain pours and the gin flows, Ruth lets loose a litany of truth bombs that blow Laura’s world to smithereens. Family secrets and shocking revelations derail this hilariously disastrous getaway - because it’s not just the weather that’s about to break. This sharp, one-act comedy offers juicy roles for two female-identifying actors.
Written by David Tristram, acclaimed author of The Extraordinary Revelations of Orca the Goldfish and the Little Grimley series.
BLT actively encourages auditionees from ethnic minority communities and any of the below parts could be played by any race.
You do not have to be a member of the company to audition, but if you are cast you must join.
Characters
Laura - Laura is a woman whose life has taken a nosedive. After a whirlwind marriage that crashed and burned in just six months, Laura is left humiliated, and emotionally raw. To make matters worse, her father has just passed away, leaving her to navigate grief, bitterness, and her complex, often combative relationship with her mother, Ruth. Hoping to find solace, Laura books a “restorative” mother-daughter getaway to a dreary chalet in the English countryside. But any hopes of healing evaporate, when Ruth begins casually dropping truth bombs like emotional landmines. With each shocking revelation, Laura spirals deeper into disbelief and emotional chaos. She flails between comical despair and full-blown hysteria, clinging to a thread of sanity as her world unravels before her. Actor’s Notes: Play Laura with high energy and a sense of mounting, tightly coiled panic. She’s not cool under pressure. Her reactions should teeter between wide-eyed disbelief, comic rage, and stunned silence. Think physical comedy meets emotional exasperation. She is, above all, very funny - but always grounded in genuine emotional stakes. Female identifying 30-50s
Ruth - At first glance, Ruth appears docile, pushed along in a wheelchair by her frazzled daughter, Laura. But it doesn’t take long to realise that this cardigan-clad matriarch is anything but helpless. Ruth is a badass in orthopaedic shoes: a woman who’s lived a far more colourful life than her daughter could possibly imagine. Newly widowed, Ruth uses this dismal “mother-daughter” holiday as a chance to offload decades of well-kept secrets. With blunt force and zero sugar-coating, she begins casually dismantling Laura’s reality, one truth at a time - each more outrageous than the last. She appears to take pleasure in watching her daughter spiral, but beneath the scathing jabs lies something deeper: tough love. She knows that, sometimes, the truth has to break you before it can set you free. Actor’s Notes: Ruth is brutal and hilariously unrepentant. Let her dry delivery land with deadly precision. Her power comes from understatement and impeccable timing. Build her revelations in waves - creating a crescendo of comedic chaos. Though she might seem unsympathetic early on, allow flickers of warmth and vulnerability to seep through by the end. Female identifying 50-70s