Name: Open Auditions | The Unfriend
Start: 2025-04-18T19:45:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-18T21:45:00+01:00
Location: 30 Godstone Road, CR3 6RA Caterham, United Kingdom

Our open auditions for THE UNFRIEND will take place on 2 dates (you only need to attend one or the other):
7:45pm on Friday 18th April 2025
2pm on Sunday 27th April 2025
Audition details are available here :
https://themiller.net/auditions/
PERFORMANCE DATES: 25th September - 4th October (including a matinee on Saturday 27th Septeber).
REHEARSALS: Start in late July 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 Phil Fry (details on the audition notice) to arrange an alternative time/date to be seen.
We are also holding an open play reading on Tuesday 18th April where you can find out a bit more about the play - details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1591986914815685
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
While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She’s less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do they?
When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they decide to look her up online. Too late, they learn the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski. Deadly danger has just boarded a flight to London! But how do you protect all that you love from mortal peril without seeming, well, a bit impolite? Because guess who’s coming… to murder!
Steven Moffat’s play The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England’s disastrous instinct always to appear nice. It was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2022, before transferring to London’s West End – first to the Criterion Theatre, then to Wyndham’s – in 2023.
Steven Moffat is an award-winning writer whose internationally successful television shows include Doctor Who, Sherlock and Dracula – the latter two co-written with actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who made his stage directorial debut with The Unfriend.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.