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Colette Dockery
Assistant Director : Victor Craven
Stage Manager : Aysha Tupman
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Performance Dates & Times :
Tuesday 3rd - Saturday 7th April at 7.45
Matinée on Saturday 7th April at 3.00
at the Bridewell Theatre, off Fleet Street
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Auditions are for Members only.
Click here for details.
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Audition Dates & Times :
Monday 23rd and Wednesday 25th January at 7.30 at the St Bride Institute (above the Bridewell Theatre), Bride Lane,
London EC4Y 8EQ.
If you are interested in auditioning but are unable to attend on these dates, or for more information please
contact the Director, Colette Dockery.
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Rehearsals will start on Monday 6th February and will be 3 weeknights and a Sat or Sun morning each week.
Cast and crew may be needed all day on Sunday 1st and Monday 2nd April for technical and dress rehearsals.
If you are unable to take those days off, please contact the director pre-audition.
We will be using the Penguin version of the play. You can order from French's or copies will
be available shortly via the Tower Office.
The director writes :
This is a sharp, fast paced comedy set in Slab Room of a carpet manufacturers in Paisley. All the action takes place in the morning and afternoon of a Friday in the winter of 1957. It is a semi autobiographical work. The author, John Byrne, worked in Stoddard's carpet factory as a slab boy, and during this time applied to Glasgow Art School. He was accepted, unlike one of his central characters Phil McCann. He described the factory as a 'technicolour hell hole'. The slab room is a small, paint-spattered dungeon where the apprentice designers, Phil, Spanky and Hector, mix and grind colours for the design department. Coping with this boring task requires them to have a strong sense of humour.
This is very much an ensemble piece. The play requires strong Scottish accents and good comic timing. This will be hard work and a lot of fun.
Casting details :
PLEASE NOTE: Be prepared to read excerpts as shown below from the play based on the character(s) you are interested in.
Phil, Spanky, Hector and Alan will all have to learn to mix paint. Phil and Spanky often switch into their double act, so these actors will need good comic timing and to be able to work well together. As the play spirals into farce, Hector will need an actor with good physicality and timing.
All cast need Scottish accents.
Phil McCann (18-30) : A Slab boy. An artist with great natural talent (as yet uncelebrated).
Please prepare pages 5-7, page 36
George 'Spanky' Farrell (18-30) : A Slab boy.
Please prepare pages 5-7 and pages 16-17
Hector McKenzie (18-30) : A Slab Boy and small for his age
Please prepare pages 12-13 and 41-42)
Jack Hogg (20s-30s) : A Designer. Very bad skin and hand-crafted lumber jackets.
Please prepare page 5 and page 23-24)
Lucille Bentley (20s-30s) : A Sketcher. Every Slab Boy's Dream.
Please prepare pages 13-14 page 40
Alan Downie (20-30) : A new boy. The 'straight man'.
Please prepare pages 5-8 and 16-17
Willie Curry (50's) : The Gaffer. Scourge of the Slab Room.
Please prepare pages 9-10 and page 43
Sadie (50-60) : The tea lady. Middle-aged. Bad feet.
Please prepare pages 11-12)
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