The Season at Sarsaparilla

Written by Australia's only Nobel Prize winning literary author The Season at Sarsaparilla is arguably White's most important and accessible play. It offers searingly sympathetic insight into the plight of suburbanites in the 1960s. A beautifully crafted piece, it offers exciting challenges for any actor and the opportunity to work with a director who has many years of experience in professional theatre across Australia The season at the Dolphin Theatre will run from 27 June to 12 July. Rehearsals will begin in May. We require 7 men, 5 women and 2 girls of around 12 years of age. The play is about Australian suburban life in the 1960s. All characters are Australian, of middle or working class origin and should sound it. Your AUDITION PIECE should be memorised, of about 3 minutes in length and should be Australian. Call backs will be on the afternoon of 6 April. The first read through will on Saturday 12 April. ROLES MEN Harry Knott (Mid to late twenties). Salesman in menswear. Very neat. The average Australian. Roy Child (mid-twenties). Primary school teacher. Sensitive, rather detached from the life around him. Functions as something like a Greek Chorus. Clive Pogson (Mid –forties) to fifties. Minor business executive Ron Suddards (early twenties). Very sincere and well meaning. Keen to improve himself. Ernie Boyle (mid-forties). Sanitary carter. Very active, good natured RSL type. Rowley Masson (mid-forties). Ex-army, a mate of Ernie. An opportunist. Mr Erbage (mid-fifties). The alderman type. Self-satisfied. Women Mavis Knott (mid-twenties or a bit younger). Placid and acceptant. The average, decent suburban wife Girlie Pogson (in her forties). Very spruce and neat. A snob who feels superior to her neighbours. Nola Boyle (around forty). Earth mother, sensual, down-to-earth. A lioness. Judy Pogson (about 18). introvert and tentative. Julia Sheen (mid-twenties). Perfect grooming and figure. Always looks and acts like a model. Pippy Pogson (About 12). Very bright, alert, forthright, inquisitive. Must look pre-pubescent Deedree – Pippy’s friend. Looks younger than Pippy. More innocent; easily put upon.