The Ghost Train – by Arnold Ridley
Adapted by Jocelyn and Nicolas Ridley
Directed by Stephan Snars
Audition: Tuesday 7 May 2024
Time: 7.30pm for a 7.45pm start
Location: The Pavilion Theatre, Doran Drive, Castle Hill
Six passengers find themselves stranded on a stormy night in the waiting room of an isolated railway station in Cornwall. Despite a warning by the station master of dire ghostly consequences, they decide to stay the night. A traditional comedy/thriller set in the 1930s.
CHARACTERS
Ages are a guide for appearance onstage.
Saul Hodgkin – M 40-60 a stationmaster. Crusty, colourful. Cornish accent perhaps.
Richard Winthrop – M 25-40s a short-tempered business man
Elsie Winthrop – F 25-40s the ever-suffering wife of Richard
Charles Murdock – M 20-30– a young man just married to…..
Peggy Murdock – F 20-30 a young lady.
Miss Bourne – F 40-60 an older spinster. A teetotaller who carries a bird in a cage.
Teddy Deakin – M 35-50 a somewhat annoying square peg in a round hole. Or is he?
Julia Price – F 25-35 who enters as a damsel in distress halfway through the play, followed by
John Sterling – M 40s her doctor. Perhaps.
Jackson – M (or F) a police officer, enters only in the last 8 pages. This part probably played a crew member.
REHEARSALS
Rehearsals to begin 6 June TBC
Proposed to be mainly Monday and Thursday nights plus some Saturdays
THE RUN
Previews Mon Sept 16 curtain 7.30pm and Wed Sept 18 curtain 8.00pm
Opens Friday September 20, Closes Saturday Oct 12
Wed, Fri, Sat curtain 8.00pm
Sunday curtain 4.00pm
THE AUDITION
A British accent of some sort will be used for the characters so let’s hear what you have. If you aren’t sure come with RP (aka BBC English). Except for Saul who ought to sound West Country-ish.
No monologue is required. The audition will be scenes from the script. It is expected that anyone auditioning has read the entire play.
For a copy of the script, or more info, please contact the Director, Stephen Snars
0400832836
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