Looking for something wonderful, exciting and fun to do over Spring? Always wanted to booed or cheered by a raucous audience? Ever wondered how you’d look in a pair of green tights? Put this date in your diary!
AUDITIONS: ‘Robin Hood & the Babes in the Wood’
WHERE: The Turner Centre
WHEN: at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on August 5
We’re casting all the roles for our Pantomime, ‘Robin Hood & the Babes in the Wood’, at the beginning of August, and are also looking for backstage crew to make this show the best it can be. The production will be presented by The Stage Door Theatre Company, directed by David Crewe, and produced by Kim Bailey. The same team as ‘Billy Goes to War’.
Performances will on 22, 23, 24 and 25 November in the main auditorium at The Turner Centre, Kerikeri.
ROBIN HOOD & THE BABES IN THE WOOD: SYNOPSIS
A Traditional Pantomime by David Crewe
Robin Hood and his Merry Men and the Merry Maidens rob the rich to feed the poor. The Sheriff of Nottingham has a cunning plan to lock all the village children and Robin’s girlfriend, Maid Marion, in the castle dungeon as a trap to catch him.
Meanwhile Dame Droopydrawers, a nursemaid, arrives in Nottingham with the two Babes, Teeny and Weeny. She tells the Sheriff he now has to look after them, as their parents, who were his relatives, have snuffed it. At first he hates the idea, until he learns that the Babes are fabulously rich. At which point he hatches another cunning plan to get rid of them and inherit the money himself. To do this he engages the services of Slippery Sam and Dangerous Dan, two useless villains from Jim’s Dirty Deeds, who mess the whole plan up after confusion in the haunted bedroom!
Strangely, Red Riding Hood appears in the forest, looking for a different theatre she is supposed to be performing in, also pursued by the wolf. Robin wonders how it is that they both have the same surname.
It turns out that Fanny Firkin, landlady of the local inn, and lady friend of Baron Bedfellow and his daughters, Marion, Milly, Molly and Mandy, knows the secret.
All ends happily of course!
We are looking for actors of all ages for these roles :
CAST
Robin Hood
His Merry Men and Maidens
Little John and Little Joan, Alan a’ Dale and Eleanor Hill, Friar Tuck and Sister Sharon, Mitch the Miller and Polly Filla, Will Scarlet and Jill the Varlet
Maid Marion, Baron Bedfellow’s daughters
Sheriff
Captain Crumpet
Baron Bedfellow
Mandy, Milly, Molly, his other daughters
Fanny Firkin, innkeeper
Dame Droopydrawers, nursemaid to the Babes
The Babes, Teeny and Weeny
Dangerous Dan
Slippery Sam
King Richard
Knight in Armour
Lord Grabitall
Red Riding Hood
Wolf
Servant Girl
Traffic Controller
Soldiers, town kids
Townspeople
Auditions 2pm & 5pm on Sunday 5 August at the Turner Centre.
Contact Helen on endeavour.crewe@gmail.com if you wish to audition but cannot make that day.
The Stage Door 