Audition Notice: Humble Boy

by Site Admin on Friday, February 29, 2008
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Auditions, STAC productions

Open Auditions for Humble Boy
by Charlotte Jones
to be directed by Frank Bench

Auditioning Sun 2nd March 2008 — 2.00pm
at the Swan Theatre (SAMA room), Worcester

Showing Tue 24th — Sat 28th June 2008
at the Swan Theatre, Worcester

Cast: 3 female, 3 male

• Felix Humble (male, mid-30s, “Hamlet for the 21st century”, a man-child with a stutter)
• Flora Humble (female, early 50s, “looks young for her age”, Felix’s newly-widowed mother, former Playboy bunny)
• Mercy Lott (female, 50s, kind-hearted but somewhat ineffectual woman, a “spinster”)
• Jim (male, 60s, “thoughtful and quiet, absent-minded, gentle sense of humour”, a thin, small man)
• George Pye (male, 60s, “a beefy, well-built man of about sixty”, a self-made man, charismatic)
• Rosie Pye (female, 30s, “does not pay much attention to her appearance”, plain but radiates an aura of good health and emotional maturity)

Backstage crew will also be required.

Links:

• Extracts from multiple reviews of Humble Boy
• See Who are STAC? for company information and a map to the theatre
• Google map of Bygones Antique shop, Worcester from where scripts can be borrowed
• Please make contact via the STAC website if you have any other queries

Private Lives laid bare!

by Site Admin on Monday, February 25, 2008
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Newspapers, Reviews, STAC productions

The reviews are in for STAC’s two-week run of a Noel Coward classic, which closed on Saturday. Both the Worcester News and the Birmingham Mail seem glad to have peaked in through the proverbial keyhole onto our Private Lives.

Note: Only the opening of the Birmingham Mail review appears online at the moment — if anyone can update the STAC blog with more information or a link when it appears, please email via the Contact link.

The Worcester News says the set was “impressive”, that the production was “fresh”, “emotinally engaging” and “one of the most professional STAC performances I have seen”. The reviewer praises John Horton for a “superb” performance, Julie Nunn for a “suitably flamboyant” turn as Amanda, and notes Tim Watson’s “great comic timing” especially opposite the character Sybil Chase “played very well by STAC newcomer Kathryn Bellamy”.

The full text of the Worcester News review follows below, and the opening text of the Birmingham Mail review below that.

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Can you act for young film-makers?

by Site Admin on Sunday, February 17, 2008
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Auditions, Other local arts

Two student film-makers, Lawrence Dunant and Alec Price, on a course at the University are making a short film spoofing News and the Weather television. They want two actors from STAC to play the following roles:

• A scientist, age 50ish, male, grey
• A news Reporter aged 20’s-30’s, male or female

If you want more information or to organise an audition/film session, please make contact through the website and we’ll forward on your details. To be filmed during the next two weeks.

Private Lives: Showing now

by Site Admin on Friday, February 15, 2008
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STAC productions

Next week - a debut in Private

by Site Admin on Friday, February 8, 2008
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Newspapers, Publicity, STAC productions

The Worcester Standard covers next week’s Private Lives in this week’s edition, focusing on the Swan Theatre debut of Kathryn Bellamy, as Sybil.

The two week run opens on Valentine’s Day and runs until Saturday, February 23rd.

The text of the article follows below (or is at the Standard online).

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Horton steps into the part that Coward wrote for himself

by Site Admin on Friday, February 1, 2008
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Newspapers, Personal, Publicity, STAC productions

Lauren Rogers from the Worcester News covers STAC’s next production, Private Lives today, with a focus on John Horton in the role of Elyot.

The show opens Thursday after next on Valentines Day and will be a perfect treat for a romantic night out … or perhaps to meet someone over a glass of bubbly!

The text of the article follows below.

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