Open Auditions - The Importance of Being Earnest

Name: Open Auditions - The Importance of Being Earnest
Start: 2025-03-25T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-25T21:30:00+00:00
Location: 30 Godstone Road, CR3 6RA Caterham, United Kingdom

Tue Mar 25 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm UTC+00:00

30 Godstone Road, CR3 6RA Caterham, United Kingdom | Caterham

Publisher/HostThe Miller Centre Theatre, Caterham

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Open Auditions - The Importance of Being Earnest

Our open auditions for THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST will take place on 2 dates (you only need to attend one or the other):
7:30pm on Tuesday 25th March 2025
2pm on Sunday 30th March 2025
Audition details are available here :
https://themiller.net/auditions/
PERFORMANCE DATES: 3rd - 12th July (including a matinee on Saturday 5th July).
REHEARSALS: Start in early May 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 John Shepherd (details on the audition notice) to arrange an alternative time/date to be seen.
We are also holding an open play reading on Tuesday 11th March where you can find out a bit more about the play - details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/4176612745893195
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
Also known as A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Oscar Wilde’s classic satire of the upper classes portrays two young men, Jack and Algernon, who are keen to avoid their social obligations. Clearly, the easiest way to get out of anything is to pretend that your name is Ernest. Thus chaos, comedy and confusion ensues as both young men develop their own love interests, try to thwart each other and seek to avoid domination by the indomitable Lady Bracknell.
Fans of handbags, cucumber sandwiches, relations, carelessness, proposals, christenings, railway stations (especially the Brighton line) and governesses with secrets cannot fail to be entertained by Wilde’s witticisms and exaggerated characters.
Written in 1895, his play of conformity and resistance, duty and pleasure reminds us all that whilst to be earnest is a virtue, there is so much fun to be had in bending the rules.