We would like to invite all our acting members and friends of the club to an audition for the Marlborough Dramatic Club's Spring 2025 production of 'The Ladykillers' by Graham Linehan, which will now be directed by the club chairman, Bill Wells. He has asked for this new audition and all parts are open for casting. The play will be performed 10-12 April 2025 at Brentwood School Memorial Hall. (Performances to be Thursday and Friday evenings 7:30pm and Saturday matinee 2:30pm). Rehearsals are planned to begin week commencing in early January, Monday and Wednesday evenings, also at Brentwood School.
The audition will be on 10 September at 7.30pm at Bill Wells' home in Hutton. Please let the Bill know if you will be attending via
The Ladykillers is a classic black comedy set in the 1950s where a sweet little old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of criminal misfits who will stop at nothing. Posing as amateur musicians, Professor Marcus and his gang rent rooms in the lopsided house of sweet but strict Mrs Wilberforce. The villains plot to involve her, unwittingly, in Marcus' brilliantly conceived heist job. The police are left stumped but Mrs Wilberforce becomes wise to their ruse and Marcus concludes that there is only one way to keep the old lady quiet. With only her parrot, General Gordon, to help her, Mrs Wilberforce is alone with five desperate men. But who will be forced to face the music?
There are six male and two female roles available, plus possibly a few non-speaking female roles:
- Constable Macdonald
- Mrs Louisa Wilberforce
- Professor Marcus
- Major Courtney
- Harry Robinson
- One-Round
- Louis Harvey
- Mrs Jane Tromleyton
- Mrs Wilberforce’s Guests
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