Name: Open Audition - My Mother Said I Never Should
Start: 2025-02-23T14:00:00+00:00
Location: 30 Godstone Road, CR3 6RA Caterham, United Kingdom

Open Audition - My Mother Said I Never Should

Our open audition for MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD will take place at:
2pm on Sunday 23rd February
Audition details are available here :
https://themiller.net/auditions/
PERFORMANCE DATES: 29th May - 7th June 2025 (including a matinee on Saturday 31st May).
REHEARSALS: Start in early March and are usually Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings with some Sundays nearer the performance dates.
Anyone can audition, including non members: in the interests of fairness, all auditionees will wait in the Green Room and be called in one at a time (although others may be asked read in where necessary). You will be seen by the Director and members of the Production Committee.
If you would like to audition but are unable to make these dates, please contact the director Hannah Millsted-Bowdery (details on the audition notice) to arrange an alternative time/date to be seen.
We are also holding an open play reading on Tuesday 28th January where you can find out a bit more about the play - details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1128238021857827
We hope to see you there!
You do not need to be a member to come to a play reading or audition, but if you are cast in a play, you must join (membership is £30 per year).
GETTING HERE
Access to the theatre for Sunday auditions is around the back: This is at the end of Timber Lane, off Timber Hill Road - use the postcode CR3 6LZ or what3words: dollar.lights.budget
https://what3words.com/dollar.lights.budget
We are a few minutes walk from both Caterham train station (trains from London Bridge/East Croydon run every 30 minutes) and the 407 and 434 bus routes. Parking is available in local side streets.
SYNOPSIS
Set in Manchester, Oldham and London, My Mother Said I Never Should is a poignant, bittersweet story about love, jealousy and the price of freedom.
The play details the lives of four women through the immense social changes of the 20th century. Using a kaleidoscopic time structure, Charlotte Keatley’s story focuses on four generations of one family as they confront the most significant moments of their lives.
In 1940, Doris, a former teacher, encourages her nine-year-old daughter, Margaret, to mind her manners and practise the piano. In 1969, Margaret’s relationship with her own daughter is strained, as art student Jackie experiments with her new found sexual freedom. When Jackie becomes pregnant at 18 and has baby Rosie, a decision is made that will affect all their lives irrevocably.