What the Butler Saw auditions
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What the Butler Saw auditions
Sat, 25 June 2005, 12:34 pmWhat the Butler Saw
Auditions are being held for GRADS production of Jo Orton’s brilliantly funny farce “What the Butler Saw”. The play will be presented at the Dolphin Theatre, UWA, Nedlands from September 23rd.
Even though it is now forty years old “What the Butler Saw” is still a play that manages to touch on a huge variety of taboo subjects. Incest. black magic, madness, transvestism, racial prejudice, murder, drug abuse, nymphomania and the private parts of Winston Churchill are all brought into a riotously funny story of a psychiatrist trying to seduce his secretary and being forced to pass her off to his wife as a patient. Then the Inspector of Asylums shows up… All this mixed together with dialogue that earned Orton the label of “The Oscar Wilde of the Welfare State”.
The play will be directed by Stephen Lee, whose production at the Dolphin of “Noises Off”, played to large and appreciative audiences.
The Parts
Dr Prentice: 35-50 Having fallen out of love with his wife, he lives in fear of the disgrace that would come if her lifestyle became known. He attempts to seduce his secretary while his wife is “at an unusually lengthy meeting of her coven”. He spends much of the play growing ever more harassed as he juggles with a series of lies that end up making it look as if he is a murderer.
Mrs Prentice: 35+ Alcoholism and nymphomania have taken over her life. She is a member of a club intended primarily for lesbians. As she tells her husband “I am exempt because you count as a woman”.
She yearns however for love and romance. The chaotic events of the play convince her she is going insane.
Dr Rance: 50+ A government inspector with wide ranging powers : “I’d have sway over a rabbit hutch if the inmates were mentally disturbed”. He is ever on the alert for cases that could make his career. He once put an entire family into a communal strait-jacket. Unfortunately it was his own family. On the surface distinguished and respectable…underneath a loony.
Geraldine 20 Young and naive. She is convinced that Dr Prentice needs her to strip for a medical exam before employing her. Her day slowly turns to nightmare as she is committed as insane, her hair cut very short (please note!) she is injected with drugs and put into a strait jacket. Dr Rance tries to convince her that she has an incestuous love for her own father. “I came from a normal family” she protests “I had no love for my father”
Nicholas 20 Employed by the notorious Station Hotel, he attempts to seduce Mrs Prentice in the broom closet and then blackmail her with the photographs. “You put me in an impossible position” she tells him. “No position is impossible when you’re young and healthy” he replies. Eventually he is forced to impersonate Dr Prentice’s missing secretary.
Sergeant Match any age Sent to the asylum to search for the missing part of a statue of Winston Churchill that became embedded in GeraldineÂ’s foster mother after a gas explosion. Eventually he is stripped, drugged and shot in the leg while on the toilet.
Information:
GRADS next production is this Joe Orton classic, directed by Stephen Lee. The auditions will take place on Sunday 10 and 17 July, 2005 at the Bradley Studio.
If you have not worked with Mr Lee before it is essential that you prepare a short comic monologue for the audition.
Venue:
Bradley Studio, UWA, Nedlands WA
Time:
10:00 PM - 5:00 PM
To book an audition time, please call.
Contact:
Tony Petani tpetani@westnet.com.au
Phone Number:
Auditions are being held for GRADS production of Jo Orton’s brilliantly funny farce “What the Butler Saw”. The play will be presented at the Dolphin Theatre, UWA, Nedlands from September 23rd.
Even though it is now forty years old “What the Butler Saw” is still a play that manages to touch on a huge variety of taboo subjects. Incest. black magic, madness, transvestism, racial prejudice, murder, drug abuse, nymphomania and the private parts of Winston Churchill are all brought into a riotously funny story of a psychiatrist trying to seduce his secretary and being forced to pass her off to his wife as a patient. Then the Inspector of Asylums shows up… All this mixed together with dialogue that earned Orton the label of “The Oscar Wilde of the Welfare State”.
The play will be directed by Stephen Lee, whose production at the Dolphin of “Noises Off”, played to large and appreciative audiences.
The Parts
Dr Prentice: 35-50 Having fallen out of love with his wife, he lives in fear of the disgrace that would come if her lifestyle became known. He attempts to seduce his secretary while his wife is “at an unusually lengthy meeting of her coven”. He spends much of the play growing ever more harassed as he juggles with a series of lies that end up making it look as if he is a murderer.
Mrs Prentice: 35+ Alcoholism and nymphomania have taken over her life. She is a member of a club intended primarily for lesbians. As she tells her husband “I am exempt because you count as a woman”.
She yearns however for love and romance. The chaotic events of the play convince her she is going insane.
Dr Rance: 50+ A government inspector with wide ranging powers : “I’d have sway over a rabbit hutch if the inmates were mentally disturbed”. He is ever on the alert for cases that could make his career. He once put an entire family into a communal strait-jacket. Unfortunately it was his own family. On the surface distinguished and respectable…underneath a loony.
Geraldine 20 Young and naive. She is convinced that Dr Prentice needs her to strip for a medical exam before employing her. Her day slowly turns to nightmare as she is committed as insane, her hair cut very short (please note!) she is injected with drugs and put into a strait jacket. Dr Rance tries to convince her that she has an incestuous love for her own father. “I came from a normal family” she protests “I had no love for my father”
Nicholas 20 Employed by the notorious Station Hotel, he attempts to seduce Mrs Prentice in the broom closet and then blackmail her with the photographs. “You put me in an impossible position” she tells him. “No position is impossible when you’re young and healthy” he replies. Eventually he is forced to impersonate Dr Prentice’s missing secretary.
Sergeant Match any age Sent to the asylum to search for the missing part of a statue of Winston Churchill that became embedded in GeraldineÂ’s foster mother after a gas explosion. Eventually he is stripped, drugged and shot in the leg while on the toilet.
Information:
GRADS next production is this Joe Orton classic, directed by Stephen Lee. The auditions will take place on Sunday 10 and 17 July, 2005 at the Bradley Studio.
If you have not worked with Mr Lee before it is essential that you prepare a short comic monologue for the audition.
Venue:
Bradley Studio, UWA, Nedlands WA
Time:
10:00 PM - 5:00 PM
To book an audition time, please call.
Contact:
Tony Petani tpetani@westnet.com.au
Phone Number: