We are very excited to announce details of our next production.
We are holding auditions on Tuesday 11th and Thursday 13th March for a murder mystery show – “Murder on the Home Front”.
On August 16th 1941 a series of events are being held at Siddlington Hall to help the war effort. At a lull in the proceedings, the organisers gather to prepare for the evening’s dance.
We are looking for actors to play the following roles:
Sir George Trumpington-Smyth – Owner of Siddlington Hall
Lady Mary – His Wife
Annie Robertson – WI bigwig and event organiser
Rev. Obadiah Harper -Vicar of St Geraldine’s in the village
Joan Wittaker – Chair of the Parish Council
Major William ‘Bill’ Wilkins – Home Guard platoon leader
Gladys Cole – Postmistress, and also runs the village telephone exchange
Dr David Worth – The village physician
Florence Middleton – a nurse working at Siddlington Hall
Narrator – to guide the audience through the solving of the murder
Auditions will take place on Tuesday 11th and Thursday 13th March. The start time for the auditions is 7.30 pm and we will aim to conclude each evening by 9.30 pm. Anyone wishing to take part in the production is requested to attend both audition dates. The auditions will be taking place at Hutton Rudby Village Hall in the main hall.
Rehearsals will start on Tuesday 18th March at 7.30 pm, and will continue every Tuesday and Thursday (with an occasional change to a Wednesday evening to accommodate other bookings of the village hall) until our performance dates of Friday 4th and Saturday 5th July. Rehearsal time will be up to 10pm on each evening.
We are aware that we will be rehearsing during the Easter vacation period, and around bank holiday weekends in May. We are able to accommodate short periods of absence during this time as long as we have been given as much notice as possible to allow us to make suitable arrangements for each rehearsal. We will require everyone involved in the production to be available for our final rehearsal dates on Tuesday 17th June, Thursday 19th June, Tuesday 24th June, Wednesday 25th June, Tuesday 1st July and for the performance dates on Friday 4th July and Saturday 5th July.
If you have any questions that have not been answered in the details above please contact us using our email address and we will respond as soon as possible. Our contact email address is [email protected] – please put the words Home Front in the subject of your message to help us find and respond to your enquiry.
We look forward to seeing everyone at our first audition evening on Tuesday 11th March at 7.30 pm.
Hutton Rudby Dramatic Society is an amateur theatre and dramatics group. We are run by a team of volunteers and members. We are always pleased to welcome new members to our group, and would be delighted to see new people attend our auditions evening. If you don’t wish to appear on stage but would like to get involved in other areas, either with backstage work or costumes or technical assistance or front of house – we’d love to meet you and get you involved. Putting on a production takes many different skills and we have opportunities for everyone to get involved with whatever their interest within the theatre community is.