Death By Chocolate

We are urgently looking for male and female actors 25-50 to audition for Death By Chocolate, a murder mystery set in the 80's. This exciting and entertaining play will be performed in late August at the Ellenbrook Performing Arts Centre with a run of 2 matinees and 3 evening performances. Auditions will be held on Sunday, 21st April between 2-4pm at The Grapevine, 1 Arrowsmith Avenue, Ellenbrook. Death By Chocolate: 'Members of the newly renovated Meadowbrook Health Resort are dropping like flies - including famed chef Edith Chiles! On the eve of the grand re-opening, this is not the best advertisement and so it’s up to John Stone, the manager, to find the cause and the murderer Delightfully sarcastic and cynical, Stone finds himself teaming up with Ed Parlor, mystery writer and amateur sleuth, in a wacky race against time The clues point to a sinister box of chocolates, and the suspects include all the outlandish characters working for the resort ... Could it be Lady Riverdale, owner of the resort, and a woman with dark secrets? Or Ralph Deadwood, gym instructor and all around cad? Dick Simmering, the aerobics instructor? Anne, the panic stricken nurse? Or could it be "Sweet Pea" Meadowbrook, overweight and grieving daughter of the recently deceased founder of the resort? Combines all the elements of classic murder mysteries with a scathing satire of today's health crazes' The Characters: Lady Riverdale - Owner of Lady Riverdale Chocolates and the new owner of Meadowbrook Health Resort. She is the pompous, high-society type except when occasionally required to use a 'vicious street shrewdness' to survive (which serves as a hint of her mysterious past. Dyslexia - Lady Riverdale's assistant and long-suffering secretary on loan to... John Stone - The new manager of the Meadowbrook Health Resort (and how he got there, no one knows). He is quick-witted and finds almost everything absurd (a basic cynical sort of person). Ralph Deadwood - The Gym Manager and all-round cad. Knowing all about Lady Riverdale's past, he has used that knowledge to get whatever he can from her. Margaret Daniels - A very attractive woman who is trying to write a feature story on the resort for a leading gossip magazine. Alfred Mellox - He is in charge of the janitorial staff and maintenance for the resort (a position given to him only because he was the trusted companion of the late Henry Meadowbrook) He is very stiff, rigid, and typical 'butler-type' with clipped British accent. Edith Chiles - The Head Chef. She is a rather large, buxom sort of woman with jovial personality and matronly manners (whatever that means). 'Sweet Pea' Meadowbrook - Daughter of the late Henry Meadowbrook. Extremely overweight, she seems to be trying to eat herself to death because of the trauma of losing her father. Her mouth is always full of food and no one can understand her without the help of Alfred Mellox Dick Simmering - The Aerobics Instructor. Always garbed in a jogging outfit, he is a bright, hyperactive, effeminate person. Anne - The resort nurse who tends to panic at the slightest injury. Ed Parlor - Guest of Lady Riverdale's, he is a writer with a cheery disposition and enjoys the opportunity to try and solve the mysterious deaths by chocolate. Henry Meadowbrook - The founder of the Meadowbrook Health Resort, he is never seen since he dies in the opening moments of the play.