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Things I Know to be True – Auditions

Things I Know to be True – Auditions

BCP are pleased to announce auditions for their July 2023 production of Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know to be True

This beautiful, touching and emotional play is the simple story about a family and the cycle of life.  Originally produced in collaboration with Frantic Assembly where it was performed as a piece of physical theatre, BCP’s production will be performed naturalistically.

Each character has something they know is true about themselves which they are currently hiding from each other.  The play is about love and identity.  Each of the children are trying to work out who they are rather than who their parents expect them to be.  The closeness of the family is loving but also overwhelming and claustrophobic such that the children are forced to leave in order to be themselves.

The play is set in the family home over the course of one year across the four distinct seasons.  The scenes consist of monologues, exploring the characters’ main crises, as well as duologues and ensemble sections.  The actors will build the set around the action with representational staging of the various settings, time and place.

DIRECTOR: Chrissie Garrett  |  Production Manager: Jane Shanahan

The Cripple of Inishmaan – Auditions

The Cripple of Inishmaan – Auditions

The Cripple of Inishmaan
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by David Quaife
 
Auditions commence at the theatre at 7:30pm and are open to all.
This play was written by Martin McDonagh in 1996 and premiered at the Royal National Theatre. McDonagh is probably best known for the Leenane trilogy starting with The Beauty Queen of Leenane and the Aran Island trilogy of play of which The Cripple of Inishmaan is the first. Among his other significant plays is The Pillowman. His best known films are probably In Bruges and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.
 
The Cripple of Inishmaan is set on a remote island near Inishmaan in 1934 and has the following cast:
Kate, mid 60s
Eileen, mid 60s
Johnnypateen Mike, mid 60s
Billy, late teens*, crippled
Hartley, late teens*
Helen, late teens*
Babbybobby, early 30s*
Doctor, 40s
Mammy, early 90s
* We can take some liberties with the age of actors particularly the younger ones.
 
The plot centres around the production of the film Man of Aran (available of Youtube) and directed by Robert Flaherty from Hollywood. This is being shot on the neighbouring island of Inishmaan and they all have ambitions to be in it. Billy, Hartley and Helen see this as an possible escape from the tedium of life on Inishmaan. But they have to get there. Babbybobby has a boat and he is persuaded to take them. What follows has a surprise or two.
 
The Cripple of Inishmaan is a comic play. Compared with many of McDonagh’s plays and films this is a much lighter offering although there is a slightly darker side to it. However the story has a bitter sweet ending but rehearsals should be fun.
 
I hope to see a good turnout for the auditions.
 
David Quaife – Director
  • : 467770
  • : Open
  • : Guide Bridge Theatre
  • : Audenshaw Road
  • : Audenshaw
  • : M345HJ
  • : David Quaife
  • : david.quaife903@ntlworld.com
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