Abandonment read through and casting

Our first production of 2020 is Abandonment by Kate Atkinson and the read through is Thurs 7th Nov at 7pm in the upstairs rehearsal room; casting evening is Tue 19th Nov (originally Tues 12th), 7.30. There are 12 characters in the play, played by 7 actors. 5 of the...

Comfort and Joy Casting Evening

How to enjoy those darkening pre-Christmas evenings! Actors with a sense of humour and fun needed for the Players’ December production Comfort and Joy, Mike Harding’s joyous celebration of all those little things that can go awry with a family Christmas....

Ladies Down Under Read Through

“Ladies Down Under “by Amanda Whittington An hilarious follow up to “Ladies Day” which Players audiences enjoyed so much when it was done before. Read Through: Tuesday 25th June at 7pm. Cast: 4 women, aged between 25 and 55. 2 men, each doing...

Our Country’s Good casting evening – Feb 25th

This summer Penrith Players is staging ‘Our Country’s Good’ by Timberlake Wertenbaker, from June 6th-8th, a play considered to be a modern classic and widely taught in A Level theatre studies. The play is based on a true story about a group of...

Casting Evening – Quartet

January 15th, 7.30 ‘QUARTET’ by Ronald Harwood, is a comedy about four opera singers who end up in a retirement home for musicians in leafy Kent. It succeeds in being witty, scabrous, and poignant all at the same time. It is a great opportunity for older...

Casting Evening – Tiny Beautiful Things

December 10th, 7.30 Tiny Beautiful Things is a relatively short (60 page) ensemble piece for four players, with all actors on stage all the time. Sugar is a writer and mother in her 40’s, a woman who’s had a hard, messy life, but whose suffering has given her a...