The Admirable Crichton by J M Barrie - Garrick WA

Auditions for TAC will be on September 19th and 20th (if requried) from 2pm. Location is still to be confirmed but will most likely be at the Guildford Theatre itself.
Auditions will by arrangement and to make a booking, please send an email to labrug@hotmail.com or call/sms 0408094899 your interest.

This is the Character List, in order of appearance and according to J M Barrie (where he has actually provided a description)

EARNEST WOOLLEY is too busy over nothing, this man about town, to be always thinking of himself, but, on the other hand, he almost never thinks of any other person. Probably Ernest's great moment is when he wakes of a morning and realises that he really is Ernest, for we must all wish to be that which is our ideal. We can conceive him springing out of bed light-heartedly and waiting for his man to do the rest. He is a bachelor, but not of arts, no mean epigrammatist (as you shall see), and a favourite of the ladies.

It would not be good taste to describe CRICHTON, who is only a servant; if to the scandal of all good houses he is to stand out as a figure in the play, he must do it on his own, as they say in the pantry and the boudoir . To be an indoor servant at all is to CRICHTON a badge of honour; to be a butler at thirty is the realisation of his proudest ambitions. He is devotedly attached to his master, who, in his opinion, has but one fault, he is not sufficiently contemptuous of his inferiors.

LADIES CATHERINE and AGATHA, two daughters of the house. CATHERINE is twenty, and AGATHA two years younger. They are very fashionable young women indeed, who might wake up for a dance, but they are very lazy, CATHERINE being two years lazier than AGATHA.

LADY MARY is a beautiful creature of twenty-two, and is of a natural hauteur which is at once the fury and the envy of her sisters. If she chooses she can make you seem so insignificant that you feel you might be swept away with the crumb-brush. She seldom chooses, because of the trouble of preening herself as she does it; she is usually content to show that you merely tire her eyes.

MR. TREHERNE - an athletic, pleasant-faced young clergyman.

The EARL OF LOAM is a widower, a philanthropist, and a peer of advanced ideas. As a widower he is at least able to interfere in the domestic concerns of his house--to rummage in the drawers, so to speak, for which he has felt an itching all his blameless life; his philanthropy has opened quite a number of other drawers to him; and his advanced ideas have blown out his figure. He takes in all the weightiest monthly reviews, and prefers those that are uncut, because he perhaps never looks better than when cutting them; but he does not read them, and save for the cutting it would suit him as well merely to take in the covers.

Tweeny, a between maid. She is a very humble and frightened kitchen maid.

Smaller parts

Young LORD BROCKLEHURST is nothing save for his rank. You could pick him up by the handful any day in Piccadilly or Holborn, buying socks--or selling them.

Mrs Perkins the housekeeper

Monsieur Fleury the Cook.

Mr Rolleston, we’re not too sure what his roll is

Mr Tompsett the Coachman and Horseman

Miss Fisher. This superb creature is no less than LADY MARY'S maid, and even LORD LOAM is a little nervous.

Miss Simmons, Lady Catherine’s Maid

Mademoiselle Jeanne, Lady Agatha’s Maid

Thomas the Footman.

John the Doorman

Jane and Gladys Kitchen Hands

Stable Boy and Page.

Naval Officer

THE COUNTESS OF BROCKLEHURST. She is a very formidable old lady.