Name: Open Play Reading | The Unfriend
Start: 2025-04-08T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-08T22:00:00+01:00
Location: 30 Godstone Road, CR3 6RA Caterham, United Kingdom

Our open play reading for the first play of our 2025/26 season THE UNFRIEND by Steven Moffat will be at 8pm in the Studio on Tuesday 8th April. This is your chance to come and find out a bit more about the play and meet the director, Phil Fry.
Our play readings are free to attend and open to everyone, including non-members. Anyone who wishes to read will be given a chance to do so, but you are also very welcome to come and listen to others read. We hope to see you there! At the end, you will be able to borrow a script (which must be returned before or at the audition).
The auditions will be on Friday 18th April and Sunday 27th April in the theatre. You only need attend one of those dates. The audition notice will be available here soon:
https://themiller.net/auditions/
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).
PERFORMANCE DATES: 25th September - 4th October (including a matinee on Saturday 27th September).
GETTING HERE
Access to the Studio is around the back of the theatre: This is at the end of Timber Lane, off Timber Hill Road - use the postcode CR3 6LZ or what3words: knee.marker.slides
https://what3words.com/knee.marker.slides
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.