Parramatta Girls

 AUDITION NOTICE!

 

AUDITIONS:Parramatta Girls

Saturday 11 February 2012 - Time: 11:00am

Old Mill Theatre, Cnr Mends Street & Mill Point Road, South Perth

The season is from May 11 to May 26, 2012.

Parramatta Girls is verbatim theatre based on the testimony of dozens of old girls from the Girls Training School in Parramatta, New South Wales. It is a dramatisation of the experiences of 8 inmates and their reunion 40 years later.

The Parramatta Girls Home was closed in 1974. Its conditions were widely recognised as being harsher than those of adult prisons. Girls endured punitive, Borstal-like conditions and were kept under constant surveillance. Sexual, emotional and psychological abuse was common-place. Drugs (Valium and Largactil) and solitary confinement were used to subdue difficult girls.

This will be the premier production of Parramatta Girls in Perth. The play was first produced by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre Sydney in 2007. Alana Valentine is an award winning writer based in New South Wales whose other plays include Swimming the Globe (1996); and Run Rabbit Run (2004).

The play is structured in the past and the present and will require 8 female actors to each play 2 roles (mature ladies and teenagers) for the following roles:

MARLENE ~ indigenous; 13 / 40 – 60

JUDI ~ non-indigenous; 16 / 40 – 60

MELANIE ~ non-indigenous; 15 / 40 – 60

LYNETTE ~ non-indigenous; 14 / 40 – 60

KERRY ~ indigenous; 15 / 40 – 60

GAYLE ~ non-indigenous; 16 / 40 – 60

MAREE ~ non-indigenous; 14

CORAL ~ indigenous; 16 / 40 – 60

The director, Siobhán O’Gara will be overseas until 27 January 2012.

Please direct all queries or requests for a script to: siobhanog@westnet.com.au

After January 27 Siobhán will be available on:

h: 9361 1530 | m: 0409 374 731