{"id":634,"date":"2023-01-18T16:32:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/?p=634"},"modified":"2023-01-18T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:32:51","slug":"auditions-not-as-scary-as-you-might-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Auditions &#8211; not as scary as you might think!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The auditions for our Spring productions are Thursday 19th at Quorn Village Hall and Tuesday 24th January at the community room in Quorn Old School (next door up from the Tearooms.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will happen at the auditions?&nbsp;&nbsp;Well, they will be relaxed affairs.&nbsp;&nbsp;We will break into small groups to read through and act out extracts from the scripts together a few times before presenting it back.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you\u2019ve never been in one of our shows before, you will find the others welcoming, friendly and supportive.  So come along and have a go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are parts for people of different ages.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here are the characters \u2013 some can be played as male or female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lord Arthur Savile\u2019s Crime:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Lord Arthur Savile:<\/td><td>25-35, a young aristocrat,<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Figure:<\/td><td>Any gender or age<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lady Windermere:<\/td><td>An elegant, aristocratic socialite: from 35-60<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>The Duchess of Paisley:<\/td><td>Savile\u2019s mother<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sybil Merton<\/td><td>Savile\u2019s \u201cintended\u201d: around the same age as him,<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>The Dean of Chichester<\/td><td>Middle-age cleric<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Herr Winckelhoff:<\/td><td>A German munitions expert<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Count\/Countess Rouvaloff:<\/td><td>A Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jane:<\/td><td>Savile\u2019s cousin; late teens, early 20\u2019s<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Podgers:<\/td><td>A&nbsp;psychic<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lady Clementina Beauchamp:<\/td><td>Although Savile\u2019s cousin, she is more elderly<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sir Mathew Reid:<\/td><td>Academic and physician<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mr Pestle:<\/td><td>Pharmacist<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Giles, Lord Surbiton:<\/td><td>Savile\u2019s younger brother<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Voices<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two generations represented here, the older being around 50+ and the younger around 30-40. While ages are not crucial, the family relationships should be credible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Older:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carol, Jane, Len, Dave, Chris, Martin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Younger:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emily, Amy, Letting Agent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The auditions for our Spring productions are Thursday 19th at Quorn Village Hall and Tuesday 24th January at the community room in Quorn Old School (next door up from the Tearooms.)&nbsp; What will happen at the auditions?&nbsp;&nbsp;Well, they will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nqsc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}