Open Theatre Auditions for our autumn/winter 2025-6 touring production of The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde.
Auditions take place on August 17th 2025
Please note we do NOT request payment to be involved with us - rather the opposite!)
If you would like to be considered for a role, please attend the open auditions, arriving for 1pm start (doors open 12.30) at Chestnut Community Centre,
1 - 3 Poplar Close,
Brixham, Devon, TQ5 0SA.
We guarantee to audition every person who wishes to audition. If you cannot make it on this date, we are open to audition people during the two weeks before the audition date, at a mutually agreed time/ date. Please contact us to arrange.
Download audition sides, and show information at https://www.southdevonplayers.com/auditions.html
This play is written from the original novella by Robert Louis Stevenson. The styling of the play is Victorian steampunk horror. There will not be nudity or swearing. There are some action scenes which will be overseen by our fight co-ordinator. It follows the original story closely, with added researched elements from Victorian scientific discoveries and texts on psychology, expanding the story.
Roles are available for performers aged 16 - 70. Many roles are open to being played as either male or female. We are most interested in the best performer for the role.
We welcome people of all backgrounds, levels of experience, ethnicities, appearance, accents etc, and are additionally very accustomed to working with neurodivergent creatives in our team, so please don't let any of these things hold you back.
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Full audition information and link to sides available from https://www.southdevonplayers.com/auditions.html
This includes show information, dates, character list, and sides.
Rehearsals will commence on Sunday August 24th 2025 will a full cast script readthrough.
Performances will tour south Devon (and, pending travel arrangements, to Birmingham) on various Fridays and Saturdays, over November 2025- January 2026 (none over Christmas / New Year) plus an online streaming performance
All levels of experience most welcome.
Actors must be based in the Devon area because of the need to attend rehearsals and performances in the South Devon region.
As things stand at time of writing all actors will receive an equal share of money made from ticket sales for the performances (inclusive of streaming), as well as location-based character photoshoots, copies of all press featuring you, videos for show/ demo-reels, and references. We are also putting in an Arts Council bid, to "up" the financial payments to Equity rates, and if that is approved then everyone is automatically upgraded.
For those newer to acting; all credits with us (whether profit-share or "proper" rate) count towards Spotlight registrations allowing newer actors to professionally register and then apply for agents and bigger castings. The payments (however much it is) can also count towards your Equity membership application.
Rehearsals for this show take place on Wednesdays 7pm - 9/ 9.30pm, and Sundays 1pm - 4 / 4.30pm at Chestnut Community Centre, 1-3 Poplar Close, Brixham, TQ5 0SA.
More information on our theatre company at www.southdevonplayers.com
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Dates
Auditions: Aug 17th
Full readthrough / notes/ housekeeping: Aug 24th
(rehearsals most sunday afternoons and wednesday evenings as usual. Specific scenes depend on specific dates and majority availability as given on audition forms and actors agreements)
SHOWS
(Oct 20 – excerpt : Brixham Good Companions
Oct 25- excerpt: Brixham Arts Festival)
Nov 6-8th - full show Brixham
Nov 15th – full show Kingskerswell
Nov 22nd - full show Plymouth
Nov 29th - full show Torquay
Dec 12 – full show, Exeter
Jan 10th- Budleigh Salterton
Jan 17th - Stokenham/ Kingsbridge