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Hay Fever
Playwright: Noel Coward
Recommended audience: 10+ for mild adult language and innuendo. 13+ for violence.
Director: Becca Parker and Andre Eaton Jr
Stage Manager: TBA.
Producer: TBA on August 19
Production dates: April 25-26, 2025
Rehearsals begin on: February 24, 2025
Strike date: April 27, 2025
No conflict dates: February 24, April 11, April 23-27
No rehearsals on: April 18-20
Submissions open: July 1, 2024
Audition Workshop: February 17, 2025
Audition dates: February 18, 2025
Callbacks: February 20, 2025
Pay: No pay. This is our fundraising show.
Please prepare: A comedic monologue in the style of Noel Coward of Oscar Wilde.
Please bring: A headshot and resume if you have one and a list of all conflicts between February 24 – April 27, 2025
Audition disclosures: Callbacks if needed will be sides from the script sent at least 24 hours prior to the audition. Callbacks may include the use of adult language.
Show description: Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist, and his wife, Judith, a retired actress, find quiet an impossible dream when their high-spirited children, Simon and Sorel, appear with guests of their own. A houseful of drama waits to be ignited as misunderstandings and tempers flare. With Judith’s new flame and David’s newest literary “inspiration” keeping company as the children follow suit, the Bliss family lives up to its name as the “quiet weekend” comes to an exhausting and hilarious finale worthy of Feydeau
Roles being cast: (Please note: Character descriptions are taken directly from the play and were provided by the licensing agent as part of our production agreement. LAT policy is that any actor who can play the role as described by the playwright is invited to audition and may be cast.)
Judith Bliss: (40s-50s) Retired actress, mother to Simon and Sorel, wife of David; her life is a performance and she has not adjusted well to country life.
David Bliss: (40s-50s) Judith’s husband, Sorel and Simon’s father; a successful novelist who hides away for long periods of time attempting to write his novel.
Sorel Bliss: (20s) Daughter of Judith and David, she is educated in the arts; fresh, vibrant, intelligent, and full of life.
Simon Bliss: (20s-30s) Son of Judith and David; an aspiring artist who is in constant competition with Sorel for Judith’s attention.
Myra Arundel: (20s-40s) Well-dressed, confident, and sophisticated; invited to the Bliss house by her admirer, Simon.
Richard Greatham: (30s-40s) Sorel’s invited guest, an English diplomat; somewhat stiff, but likeable and intelligent.
Jackie Coryton: (20s-30s) David’s invited guest; a young flapper, very sweet but not very bright.
Sandy Tyrell: (20s-30s) Judith’s invited guest; amateur boxer with a youthful energy and adoring fascination with Judith.
Clara: (40s-60s) Judith’s former dresser and now her housekeeper; overworked and underappreciated. Cockney accent is desired.
Disclosures:
Received Pronunciation is desired for this production for all characters except Clara.
Simon, Sorel, Judith, Sandy and Richard smoke.
Simon and Myra Kiss.
Judith plays piano and sings.
Myra slaps David.
David and Myra kiss.
Clara sings (not well).