THE REP's Artistic Director Phil Willmott on the venue's balcony.
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CASting info 11/11/2022
Updated 15/11/2022
We are a part-time theatre company, comprised of trained and professional actors and creatives, volunteering their free time outside of office hours, on a co-operative and “profit share basis” to ensure non-commercial theatre survives post covid.
We are currently casting for our Christmas season which will be available free to all kids and anyone accessing foodbanks, and on a pay-what-you-can basis to anyone else, so that everyone can afford to experience live theatre.
The Rotherhithe and East London Playhouse (THE REP) is a government registered Community Interest Company 13254119.
Our forthcoming productions are -
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (60-minute Family Show)
THE CHRISTMAS WIFE Adapted from Ibsen’s a Doll’s House (90-minute Drama for older audiences)
These will be presented separately but equate to the equivalent workload of rehearsing and presenting one full length play.
Application window closes: 2pm Wed 16th Nov
Auditions: 5pm - 10pm Thu 17th & Fri 18th Nov
Part-time rehearsals: 22nd Nov – 11th Dec
Tue - Fri 7pm – 10pm
Sat & Sun 10am – 6pm
Full time production days: Tue 13th – Thu 15th Dec (inc. first show)
10am – 10pm
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Performance dates and times:
15th & 16th Dec: 6pm
17th & 18th Dec: 2pm & 6pm
20th – 23rd Dec: 6pm
Christmas break: 24th, 25th, 26th Dec (no shows)
27th – 30th Dec: 2pm & 6pm
The Christmas Wife
Performance dates and times:
15th – 18th Dec: 8pm
20th – 23rd Dec: 8pm
Christmas break: 24th, 25th, 26th Dec (no shows)
27th – 30th Dec: 8pm
IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
Before applying please carefully check the dates and note that this is nominally a “profit-share” project. However, we also only have 40 seats to sell per performance which we make as affordable as possible to ensure anyone can afford to see live performance this Christmas. For this reason, you should apply on the understanding that there’s unlikely to be much or indeed any profit to share.
Some of the company will perform in both a one act version of The Wizard of Oz (for a family audience) and in The Christmas Wife, a one act adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (For older audiences)
These will be presented separately but equate to the equivalent workload of rehearsing and presenting one full length play.
Application window closes: 2pm Wed 16th Nov
Auditions: 5pm - 10pm Thu 17th & Fri 18th Nov
Part-time rehearsals: 22nd Nov – 11th Dec
Tue - Fri 7pm – 10pm
Sat & Sun 10am – 6pm
Full time production days: Tue 13th – Thu 15th Dec (inc. first show)
10am – 10pm
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Performance dates and times:
15th & 16th Dec: 6pm
17th & 18th Dec: 2pm & 6pm
20th – 23rd Dec: 6pm
Christmas break: 24th, 25th, 26th Dec (no shows)
27th – 30th Dec: 2pm & 6pm
The Christmas Wife
Performance dates and times:
15th – 18th Dec: 8pm
20th – 23rd Dec: 8pm
Christmas break: 24th, 25th, 26th Dec (no shows)
27th – 30th Dec: 8pm
HOW TO APPLY
Please email us your CV and a photograph, ideally via a link to your Spotlight or Mandy page, to rotherhitheplayhouse@gmail.com with CASTING in the subject line.
Please confirm in your email that you are available to volunteer for the majority of the rehearsals and all of the performance dates, plus that you understand the nature of the “profit share” deal and could afford to take a role on this basis.
N.B. We will only be able to process your application if you provide this information.
ROLES
DOROTHY in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
F 16 – 20
Any Appearance
Our brave, bright and plucky heroine, playing age: early teens. Dorothy is keen to both to experience everything life has to offer and to get home safely.
TOTO in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F
Any Appearance
Toto is Dorothy’s beloved Dog. Only we can hear this lively young pup’s thoughts, incongruously delivered in contemporary street slang. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
SCARECROW in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F 20 – 40
Any Appearance
A warm hearted, loveable, personality. The Scarecrow lacks a brain and is hoping the wizard can help. Easy going whilst also brave when called upon. Scarecrow is probably loose and long limbed and may even have a song. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
THE TIN WOODCUTTER in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F 20- 40
Any Appearance
A simple straight talker his earnestness is very endearing although he is made of metal and has been left to rust and struggles when not walking in a straight line. His movements can seem a little robotic. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
THE LION in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F 20 – 40
Any Appearance
A big scaredy cat the Lion is hoping the wizard can provide some courage. In the meantime, he/she is happy hanging out with friends running back to them whenever there’s danger, and enjoying the chance to dress up in the Emerald City. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
THE WIZARD in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M 40 – 60
Any Appearance
In contrast with his loud imposing voice the wizard himself is a fussy little man, ambitious but easily muddled and distracted. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
GLENDA in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F 20 – 60
Any Appearance
A good witch. Glenda is kindly and glamorous whilst approachable, with a pleasing tinkling voice which listeners find very calming and reassuring. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
THE WITCH OF THE WEST in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F 30 – 60
Any Appearance
Malevolent and magnificent this sadistic witch takes an icy pleasure in doing evil, however when plans are this hateful creature has a nasty temper and a can act rashly. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
NORA in The Christmas Wife (and as cast in the Wizard of Oz) (major leading dramatic role)
F 20s
Any Appearance
Nora Helmer is the heroine of the play. Still a young woman, she is married to Torvald Helmer and has three children. At the play’s outset, she is bubbly and carefree, excited about Christmas and her husband’s recent promotion. As the play progresses, it is revealed that she secretly borrowed money from Nils Krogstad and forged her father’s signature. She decides that she can no longer be happy in her life and marriage, and resolves to leave Torvald and her home in order to find a sense of self and learn about the world. The play's final image of Nora is of an embittered yet sophisticated, intelligent, and newly empowered woman boldly escaping the infantilizing clutches of her old life.
We will only be able to process your application if you provide this information.
TORVALD in The Christmas Wife and as cast in the Wizard of Oz (major leading dramatic role)
M 30 – 45
Any appearance
Torvald Helmer is a lawyer who at the play’s outset has recently been promoted to Bank Manager. He is married to Nora Helmer, with whom he has three children. He loves and is very affectionate towards Nora, but often treats her more as a pet, child, or object than as a real person. When he finds out about Nora’s secret debt he instantly turns on her. When Nora tells him she is leaving him, Torvald at first reacts by calling her mad and saying she is acting like a child until he realizes how resolute she is in her decision and desperately searches for a way to stay with her.
KRISTINE in The Christmas Wife and as cast in the Wizard of Oz (major role)
Any appearance
F 25 - 40
Mrs. Linde, is a woman whose marriage was loveless, and based on a need for financial security, and who doesn’t have any children. She and Krogstad had been in love at the time, but he was too poor to support her family. She arrives in town in search of a job in order to earn money and survive independently but is morally conflicted and miserable without other people to take care of.
KROGSTADT in The Christmas Wife and as cast in the Wizard of Oz (major role)
M 35 – 55
Any appearance
Nils Krogstad is, at least at the beginning, the antagonist of the play. Known to the other characters as unscrupulous and dishonest, he blackmails Nora, who borrowed money from him with a forged signature. After he and Mrs. Linde decide to marry, he becomes happier and rescinds his threats to Nora, saying he regrets his behaviour.
DR RANK in The Christmas Wife and as cast in the Wizard of Oz (major dramatic role)
M 40 – 70
Any appearance.
Dr. Rank is a doctor who is best friends with Torvald and Nora, who he visits every day. Dr. Rank suffers from spinal tuberculosis, a condition he believes was caused by his father’s vices, unmarried and lonely, and over the course of the play it is revealed that he is in love with Nora. Cynical about life, he rejoices when he finds out that his illness is terminal, and insists that neither Torvald nor Nora visit him in his dying days.
ANNE MARIE in The Christmas Wife and as cast in the Wizard of Oz
F 40 – 60
Any appearance
Nurse to both Nora and Nora's children, the nursemaid, whose name is Anne Marie, is a kind woman who was forced to give up her own child, who it is suggested was born out of wedlock. The nursemaid is an example of a woman in bad circumstances forced to do anything in order to survive. When Nora first thinks of leaving she considers the fact that her children will be raised by the nursemaid and, remembering what a good mother the nursemaid had been to her, decides that she would also raise Nora’s children well.
THAT IMPORTANT INFORMATION AGAIN.
Before applying please carefully check the dates and note that this is nominally a “profit-share” project. However, we also only have 40 seats to sell per performance which we make available for free to kids and any family accessing food banks or subsidised school meals, and on a pay what you can basis to everyone else to ensure anyone can afford to see live performance this Christmas. For this reason, you should apply on the understanding that there’s unlikely to be much or indeed any profit to share.
Most of the company will perform in both a one act version of The Wizard of Oz (for a family audience) and in The Christmas Wife, a one act adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (For older audiences) These will be presented separately but equate to the equivalent workload of rehearsing and presenting one full length play.
NB
Please confirm in your covering letter that you are available to volunteer for the majority of the rehearsals and all of the performance dates, plus that you understand the nature of the “profit share” deal and could afford to take a role on this basis.
We will only be able to process your application if you provide this information.
Thank you for your interest, we hope to meet you soon.
We are a part-time theatre company, comprised of trained and professional actors and creatives, volunteering their free time outside of office hours, on a co-operative and “profit share basis” to ensure non-commercial theatre survives post covid.
We are currently casting for our Christmas season which will be available free to all kids and anyone accessing foodbanks, and on a pay-what-you-can basis to anyone else, so that everyone can afford to experience live theatre.
The Rotherhithe and East London Playhouse (THE REP) is a government registered Community Interest Company 13254119.
Our forthcoming productions are -
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (60-minute Family Show)
THE CHRISTMAS WIFE Adapted from Ibsen’s a Doll’s House (90-minute Drama for older audiences)
These will be presented separately but equate to the equivalent workload of rehearsing and presenting one full length play.
Application window closes: 2pm Wed 16th Nov
Auditions: 5pm - 10pm Thu 17th & Fri 18th Nov
Part-time rehearsals: 22nd Nov – 11th Dec
Tue - Fri 7pm – 10pm
Sat & Sun 10am – 6pm
Full time production days: Tue 13th – Thu 15th Dec (inc. first show)
10am – 10pm
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Performance dates and times:
15th & 16th Dec: 6pm
17th & 18th Dec: 2pm & 6pm
20th – 23rd Dec: 6pm
Christmas break: 24th, 25th, 26th Dec (no shows)
27th – 30th Dec: 2pm & 6pm
The Christmas Wife
Performance dates and times:
15th – 18th Dec: 8pm
20th – 23rd Dec: 8pm
Christmas break: 24th, 25th, 26th Dec (no shows)
27th – 30th Dec: 8pm
IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
Before applying please carefully check the dates and note that this is nominally a “profit-share” project. However, we also only have 40 seats to sell per performance which we make as affordable as possible to ensure anyone can afford to see live performance this Christmas. For this reason, you should apply on the understanding that there’s unlikely to be much or indeed any profit to share.
Some of the company will perform in both a one act version of The Wizard of Oz (for a family audience) and in The Christmas Wife, a one act adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (For older audiences)
These will be presented separately but equate to the equivalent workload of rehearsing and presenting one full length play.
Application window closes: 2pm Wed 16th Nov
Auditions: 5pm - 10pm Thu 17th & Fri 18th Nov
Part-time rehearsals: 22nd Nov – 11th Dec
Tue - Fri 7pm – 10pm
Sat & Sun 10am – 6pm
Full time production days: Tue 13th – Thu 15th Dec (inc. first show)
10am – 10pm
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Performance dates and times:
15th & 16th Dec: 6pm
17th & 18th Dec: 2pm & 6pm
20th – 23rd Dec: 6pm
Christmas break: 24th, 25th, 26th Dec (no shows)
27th – 30th Dec: 2pm & 6pm
The Christmas Wife
Performance dates and times:
15th – 18th Dec: 8pm
20th – 23rd Dec: 8pm
Christmas break: 24th, 25th, 26th Dec (no shows)
27th – 30th Dec: 8pm
HOW TO APPLY
Please email us your CV and a photograph, ideally via a link to your Spotlight or Mandy page, to rotherhitheplayhouse@gmail.com with CASTING in the subject line.
Please confirm in your email that you are available to volunteer for the majority of the rehearsals and all of the performance dates, plus that you understand the nature of the “profit share” deal and could afford to take a role on this basis.
N.B. We will only be able to process your application if you provide this information.
ROLES
DOROTHY in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
F 16 – 20
Any Appearance
Our brave, bright and plucky heroine, playing age: early teens. Dorothy is keen to both to experience everything life has to offer and to get home safely.
TOTO in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F
Any Appearance
Toto is Dorothy’s beloved Dog. Only we can hear this lively young pup’s thoughts, incongruously delivered in contemporary street slang. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
SCARECROW in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F 20 – 40
Any Appearance
A warm hearted, loveable, personality. The Scarecrow lacks a brain and is hoping the wizard can help. Easy going whilst also brave when called upon. Scarecrow is probably loose and long limbed and may even have a song. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
THE TIN WOODCUTTER in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F 20- 40
Any Appearance
A simple straight talker his earnestness is very endearing although he is made of metal and has been left to rust and struggles when not walking in a straight line. His movements can seem a little robotic. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
THE LION in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F 20 – 40
Any Appearance
A big scaredy cat the Lion is hoping the wizard can provide some courage. In the meantime, he/she is happy hanging out with friends running back to them whenever there’s danger, and enjoying the chance to dress up in the Emerald City. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
THE WIZARD in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M 40 – 60
Any Appearance
In contrast with his loud imposing voice the wizard himself is a fussy little man, ambitious but easily muddled and distracted. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
GLENDA in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F 20 – 60
Any Appearance
A good witch. Glenda is kindly and glamorous whilst approachable, with a pleasing tinkling voice which listeners find very calming and reassuring. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
THE WITCH OF THE WEST in The Wizard of Oz (And as cast in a Christmas Wife)
M or F 30 – 60
Any Appearance
Malevolent and magnificent this sadistic witch takes an icy pleasure in doing evil, however when plans are this hateful creature has a nasty temper and a can act rashly. Singing, dancing or instrumental skills are optional but please let us know if you have any skills in these areas.
NORA in The Christmas Wife (and as cast in the Wizard of Oz) (major leading dramatic role)
F 20s
Any Appearance
Nora Helmer is the heroine of the play. Still a young woman, she is married to Torvald Helmer and has three children. At the play’s outset, she is bubbly and carefree, excited about Christmas and her husband’s recent promotion. As the play progresses, it is revealed that she secretly borrowed money from Nils Krogstad and forged her father’s signature. She decides that she can no longer be happy in her life and marriage, and resolves to leave Torvald and her home in order to find a sense of self and learn about the world. The play's final image of Nora is of an embittered yet sophisticated, intelligent, and newly empowered woman boldly escaping the infantilizing clutches of her old life.
We will only be able to process your application if you provide this information.
TORVALD in The Christmas Wife and as cast in the Wizard of Oz (major leading dramatic role)
M 30 – 45
Any appearance
Torvald Helmer is a lawyer who at the play’s outset has recently been promoted to Bank Manager. He is married to Nora Helmer, with whom he has three children. He loves and is very affectionate towards Nora, but often treats her more as a pet, child, or object than as a real person. When he finds out about Nora’s secret debt he instantly turns on her. When Nora tells him she is leaving him, Torvald at first reacts by calling her mad and saying she is acting like a child until he realizes how resolute she is in her decision and desperately searches for a way to stay with her.
KRISTINE in The Christmas Wife and as cast in the Wizard of Oz (major role)
Any appearance
F 25 - 40
Mrs. Linde, is a woman whose marriage was loveless, and based on a need for financial security, and who doesn’t have any children. She and Krogstad had been in love at the time, but he was too poor to support her family. She arrives in town in search of a job in order to earn money and survive independently but is morally conflicted and miserable without other people to take care of.
KROGSTADT in The Christmas Wife and as cast in the Wizard of Oz (major role)
M 35 – 55
Any appearance
Nils Krogstad is, at least at the beginning, the antagonist of the play. Known to the other characters as unscrupulous and dishonest, he blackmails Nora, who borrowed money from him with a forged signature. After he and Mrs. Linde decide to marry, he becomes happier and rescinds his threats to Nora, saying he regrets his behaviour.
DR RANK in The Christmas Wife and as cast in the Wizard of Oz (major dramatic role)
M 40 – 70
Any appearance.
Dr. Rank is a doctor who is best friends with Torvald and Nora, who he visits every day. Dr. Rank suffers from spinal tuberculosis, a condition he believes was caused by his father’s vices, unmarried and lonely, and over the course of the play it is revealed that he is in love with Nora. Cynical about life, he rejoices when he finds out that his illness is terminal, and insists that neither Torvald nor Nora visit him in his dying days.
ANNE MARIE in The Christmas Wife and as cast in the Wizard of Oz
F 40 – 60
Any appearance
Nurse to both Nora and Nora's children, the nursemaid, whose name is Anne Marie, is a kind woman who was forced to give up her own child, who it is suggested was born out of wedlock. The nursemaid is an example of a woman in bad circumstances forced to do anything in order to survive. When Nora first thinks of leaving she considers the fact that her children will be raised by the nursemaid and, remembering what a good mother the nursemaid had been to her, decides that she would also raise Nora’s children well.
THAT IMPORTANT INFORMATION AGAIN.
Before applying please carefully check the dates and note that this is nominally a “profit-share” project. However, we also only have 40 seats to sell per performance which we make available for free to kids and any family accessing food banks or subsidised school meals, and on a pay what you can basis to everyone else to ensure anyone can afford to see live performance this Christmas. For this reason, you should apply on the understanding that there’s unlikely to be much or indeed any profit to share.
Most of the company will perform in both a one act version of The Wizard of Oz (for a family audience) and in The Christmas Wife, a one act adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (For older audiences) These will be presented separately but equate to the equivalent workload of rehearsing and presenting one full length play.
NB
Please confirm in your covering letter that you are available to volunteer for the majority of the rehearsals and all of the performance dates, plus that you understand the nature of the “profit share” deal and could afford to take a role on this basis.
We will only be able to process your application if you provide this information.
Thank you for your interest, we hope to meet you soon.
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