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Our open auditions for FOLK will take place on 2 dates (you only need to attend one or the other):7:45pm on Friday 23rd January 2026
2pm on Sunday 1st February 2026
Audition details are available here :
https://themiller.net/auditions/
PERFORMANCE DATES: 14th - 23rd May (including a matinee on Saturday 16th May).
REHEARSALS: Start in mid March 2026 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 Mike Millsted (details on the audition notice) to arrange an alternative time/date to be seen.
We are also holding an open play reading on Tuesday 13th January 2026 where you can find out a bit more about the play - details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/3973271736250687
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
This charming ‘play with songs’, inspired by real life events, contrasts the urban sophistication of Cecil Sharp, the renowned collector of folk songs, with the simple lives of two sisters he meets in Somerset in 1903. The younger sister, illiterate Louie, has something Sharp wants – she has over 300 folk songs in her head learnt from her recently deceased mother. Sharp wants to take these songs and integrate them into his music and indeed publishes them uncredited, but for Louie they are a constantly evolving part of the land that she grew up in and cannot be captured and frozen in time. A wonderful play about the power of music, rural identity and grief.
Folk was first produced as a BBC radio play and then at the Hampstead theatre where it gathered an Olivier award nomination.
This is an amateur production.
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