GODSPELL JR Fifth Business Theatre Company Written By: Conceived and Originally Directed by John-Michael Tebelak Directed By: Chloe Baker, Leah Gauthier, Andrew Hawkins The original Godspell was the first major musical theatre offering from three-time Grammy and Academy Award-winner, Stephen Schwartz, and it took the world by storm. Boasting a score with chart topping songs, Godspell JR. is a sensation that continues to touch audiences. A group of disciples help Jesus Christ tell different parables by using a wide variety of games, storytelling techniques and a hefty dose of comic timing. An eclectic blend of songs, ranging in style from pop to vaudeville, are employed as the story of Jesus' life dances across the stage. Dissolving hauntingly into the Last Supper and the Crucifixion, Jesus' messages of kindness, tolerance and love come vibrantly to life. Roles Available: This is an ensemble show told by a strong ensemble cast, with lots of featured solo singing moments and the opportunity to develop unique characters. Age of cast is school years Year 4 - Year 12 in 2024, 10 years of age - 18 years of age current school attending students. Rehearsals: REHEARSALS The show commitment is for Term 4 of 2024 till Term 1 2025. Rehearsals will be held every Saturday morning in Term 4 2024, beginning on Saturday 12 October, with our last session on Saturday 14 December, running from 10.00am to 12.30pm each week. Rehearsals will begin again on Saturday 1 February 2025, running from 10.00am to 12.30pm each week. There will be Boot Camp rehearsals running from 10am to 4pm on Saturday 7 December 2024, Saturday 22 February 2025 and Saturday 29 March 2025. There will be evening rehearsals in production week. Finer details will be sent out later in Term 4. Performances: SHOW DATES 2025 • Friday 4 April 2024 at 7.00pm • Saturday 5 April 2024 at 2.00pm and 7.00pm • We are keen to present a morning matinee for schools on Friday 4 April at 10.00am, pending availability of cast members. Venue: Tyndale Theatre, Tyndale Christian School, Salisbury East Information Night: Please email fifthbusinesstheatrecompany@tyndale.sa.edu.au for details of our current training sessions. Auditions: Auditions and call-backs will occur on Saturday 28 September, with general group auditions at 10.00am to 12.30pm and call-backs from 1.30pm to 5.00pm. Email FBTC to access and audition pack. Complete the application in the pack to audition. Nobody will be allowed to audition without parental approval. Read the conditions further on in this pack. Email or hand in your application by Saturday 14 September. Venue: Tyndale Theatre, Tyndale Christian School, Salisbury East More Information: Contact Danielle Rae Potter on 0409376878 or email fifthbusinesstheatrecompany@tyndale.sa.edu.au BEST OF THE ADELAIDE SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL Since premiering in 2020, the Adelaide Short Play Festival has performed 38 short plays, and given more than 50 actors an opportunity to appear in a variety of roles and genres playing at least 3 different characters each year. In 2025 the Adelaide Short Play Festival will be a BEST OF, and feature the 10 most popular short plays performed so far. Here’s your chance to become a part of the Adelaide Short Play Festival experience so register now to audition. Returning actors from previous years don’t need to audition, but please register. While this opportunity is unpaid, you’re provided with training, guidance and support. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a team who has valuable experience to help you develop and showcase your acting skills. Roles Available: We have a variety of roles available Rehearsals: Rehearsal is usually on Sunday afternoons, but we’re flexible around school, study, travel and job commitments where possible. Performances: Adelaide Fringe 2025 March 1, 2, 8, 9 at 3PM Venue: Parks Theatre, 46 Cowan Street, Angle Park. Auditions: Audition Workshop: Friday September 27 (7PM – 9.30PM) Please register your details and forward a current headshot to: auditionASPF@gmail.com Once registered you’ll be able to attend the Audition Workshop (details above and below). Venue: Audition Venue: Fulham Community Centre - 19 Fitch Road Fulham More Information: Contact Nicole Cawley on 0402 120 010 or email auditionASPF@gmail.com PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Fifth Business Theatre Company Written By: Janet Fletcher Directed By: Janet Fletcher The Space, a branch of Fifth Business Theatre Company, are excited to announce our 2025 Adelaide Fringe production of Pride and Prejudice written and directed by Janet Fletcher. FBTC, under the direction of Janet Fletcher, is seeking a cast of dedicated, team focussed actors to bring this tale to the stage. Auditions are open to adults aged eighteen and above. ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife’. With these beloved words Austen ushers us into one of the most delightful romances ever written. It is a truth less universally acknowledged that in the romantic world of Austen, marriage was a market where everyone had a value and the price of missing marriage was dependency or destitution. Mr Bennett has made no provision for his five daughters and Mrs Bennett must help them find their way in the most perilous of settings for girls with no fortune or title to recommend them – the marriage market. This production honours the delight of Austen’s language, characters and classic romance while its setting in an Art Gallery, where every lot has a value, adds a fresh twist to her classic tale. Roles Available: CHARACTERS – all ages are stage ages Mr Bennett – 50-60 Mrs Bennett – 45-50 Lady Catherine De Bourgh/Mrs Gardiner – 45-50 Lady Lucas/Mrs Reynolds – 45-50 Jane Bennett – early to mid 20s Lizzy Bennett – early 20s Mary Bennett/Georgiana Darcy – early 20s Kitty Bennett/Anne De Bourgh– late teens Lydia Bennett -16 Charlotte Lucas/Miss Younge – late 20s Caroline Bingley – mid 20s Mr Darcy -25-30 Mr Bingley – 25-30 Mr Wickham – 25-30 Mr Collins – 25-40 The Auctioneer - either sex/any age Rehearsals: REHEARSALS The production commitment is from October 2024 till March 2025. Rehearsals will be held twice a week on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7:30pm – 9:30pm, with a break over Christmas and New Year. Dates are as follows: 2024 • Sunday October 13 = First rehearsal 2pm – 5pm • October 14 – December 18 = Monday and Wednesday evenings 7:30pm – 9:30pm 2025 • Saturday January 11 = Boot Camp rehearsal 10am – 6pm • January 13 – February 26 = Monday and Wednesday evenings 7:30pm – 9:30pm • Sunday 23 February = Boot Camp rehearsal 2pm – 10pm • Sunday 2 March = Boot Camp rehearsal 2pm – 10pm • Production Week evening rehearsals = Monday 5 and Wednesday 7 March 7:30pm – 9:30pm Performances: PERFORMANCES • Evening performances: - Friday 7 and Saturday 8 March 2025 at 7:30pm - Saturday 8 March 2025 at 2.00pm - Friday 14 and Saturday 15 March 2025 at 7:30pm - Saturday 15 March 2025 at 2.00pm Venue: Tyndale Theatre, 50 Fern Grove Boulevard, Salisbury East Information Night: An Information Evening, including a play reading, on Monday 9 September at 7pm. Auditions: Email your intention to audition by Wednesday 18 September. Auditions will be held on Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 September and Wednesday 2 October at 7pm. Venue: Tyndale Theatre, 50 Fern Grove Boulevard, Salisbury East More Information: Contact Danielle Rae Potter on 0409376878 or email fifthbusinesstheatrecompany@tyndale.sa.edu.au THE PARSIFAL PROJECT Ink Pot Arts Inc Written By: Peter Oswald Directed By: Jo-anne Sarre This commissioned new sacred theatre work by Peter Oswald for Ink Pot Arts Inc is a play version of the Arthurian story of Parsifal, based on the poem by Wolfram Von Eschenbach. We tell the story through the eyes of the women, bringing unique perspectives including how the community enables the individual journey of growth and transformation. Parsifal’s mother brings him up in a forest, so he won’t become a knight and die in battle like his father. She wants to prevent the endless cycle of death and tragedy. However, Parsifal is fated to become the greatest knight of his age. He finds the Grail Castle and fails to ask the question that will heal the wounded Grail King. After many trials and much despair and wandering he learns the question he must ask, and new ways of being a knight - rather than a Knight of the Sword he becomes a Knight of the Word. He finds the castle again, heals the King and the wasteland and becomes Grail King himself. Roles Available: Repanse de Schoye - (playing age 20s-30s) Grail Maiden, one of seven women supporting Parsifal and his journey. She is so pure of heart that only she can carry the Grail during sacred processions. Grace - (playing age open) a servant to Parsifal's wife-to-be Condwiramurs Kaie - (playing age 20s-40s) one of King Arthur's Knights, impulsively aggressive yet loyal King Arthur - (playing age 50s-60s) guides the knights of the Round Table Queen Guinevere - (playing age 40s-50s) wife of King Arthur who is unfaithful Rehearsals: Thursday evenings 6.30pm - 8.30pm during 2024 Intensive January 2025 rehearsals - various times, including evenings & weekends Intensive April 2025 rehearsals - various times, including evenings & weekends Performances: Saturday 26th April 2025 5pm - 8pm (including intervals) Saturday 3rd May 2025 5pm - 8pm (including intervals) Sunday 4th May 2025 5pm - 8pm (including intervals) Venue: The Living Arts Centre Mount Barker Waldorf School 27 Sims Road Mount Barker SA 5251 Information Night: All enquiries can be directed to Jo-anne Sarre, via quill@inkpot.com.au or M: 0429 673 327. Auditions: EOI is due Friday 27th Sept 2024. Auditions will be Friday 4th October - Saturday 5th October 2024, various times. Venue: Mount Barker Town Hall 34-38 Gawler Street Mount Barker SA 5251 More Information: Contact Jo-anne Sarre on 0429673327 or email quill@inkpot.com.au COMIC POTENTIAL Blackwood Players Inc Written By: Alan Ayckbourn Directed By: Greg Elliott In the near future, former film maker Chandler 'Chance' Tate is directing a banal television soap. Actoids have replaced human actors and one, Jacie, appears to have a glitch as she keeps breaking into laughter. Filming is interrupted by high powered executive Carla Pepperbloom and the TV magnate Lester Trainsmith's nephew Adam. Adamis a writer, a dying breed, and idolizes the work of Chance. When Adam is left in the studio, he runs an old Busker movie and Jacie begins to laugh. Adam begins to teach her the basics of comedy leading to Jacie doing a double-take when filming on the soap resumes. Initially sceptical, Chance talks to Adam about Jacie and the art of comedy and demonstrates her talent for the job. Clandestinely, the pair agree to work on a comedy film with Jacie. She is given freedom to improvise and under Chance's tutelage begins to learn more. The mute Leister Trainsmith arrives with Carla and Jacie's comedy scene is shown. Carla tears it apart and Chance loses his temper. Carla continues to insist on changes and finds herself on the receiving end of a custard pie from Jacie. Lester laughs and approves the film but orders Jacie to be scrapped. Carla returns order the studio closed. Jacie initially doesn't mind being scrapped but after she and Adam dance and kiss, she realizes she doesn't want to 'die'. Adam and Jacie go on the run and check in at the Grand Hotel, go shopping and have a meal - with unforeseen results. Back in their room, Adam uses a Bible to Jacie to read. Unfortunately, Jacie has been tracked and Adam sends her a cheap 'hotel' to hide, although she is becoming increasing unstable and distressed as she begins to feel real emotions. Adam returns but is stabbed by a pimp who believes Jacie is a prostitute. Jacie over-powers him, but distraught that Adam has been injured, she returns to the studio. At the studio, Carla is revealed to leaked Jacie's story to the press and Lester proves not to be a mute, firing Carla. He offers Jacie Carla's job, but Jacie is still confused and decides to be scrapped. Adam returns from the hospital and is given bad news by Chance. As he mourns his loss, Jacie appears and admits she couldn't go through with being scrapped. The lovers are reunited, but Jacie looks set to be harder taskmaster than Carla in her new role.... Roles Available: Roles Available: JCF 31333 Jacie Triplethree 20's - 30's. Jacie is an android (actoid) who laughs at one of the errors another actoid makes; she is not meant to be able to do sets her apart from other actoids. Jacie is witty and clever and physically strong. She has unique qualities. Adam Tainsmith 20's - 30's, is an aspiring writer who becomes attracted to Jacie and begins creating a story that is based around her for a new tv soap opera; he is desperate tom prove himself. When Jacie is in danger, he takes her away and hides with her in hotels in the city. Chandler Late 50's was a film director with a good reputation, but now has ended up working with community television and a cast of actoids not human actors, churning out TV Soap Operas. He realizes Jacie's potential in TV entertainment. Lester Trainsmith In his 80's, who doesn't speak (until later scenes). He is in a wheelchair. He is the wealthy owner of the television station. Marmion 30's. Is the speaker for Lester Trainsmith and voices Lester's thoughts and opinions. Prim Spring, programmer. 30's. Prim is responsible for the actions of the actoids and if there is an issue or problem, she needs to rectify it. Prim can alter the emotional responses of the actoids. Trudi Floote, technician. 30's. Trudi is like a floor manager and overseas technical aspects of the filming. Carla Pepperbloom, company director 40's - 50's. Carla is flamboyant, demonstrative, quite theatrical, histrionic and overbearing. She is ambitious and sees herself as the next director of Lester's company. She would be an awful employer. Doctor Actoid Gives the young man in the hospital bed the bad news about his operation. The doctor is the actor who mucks up his lines which sets Jacie off. Son Actoid Young man, a patient in the hospital bed. Mother Actoid 40's - 50's. Tearful and emotional, she is sad about her son's condition. She is able to be much more emotional when she is programmed to cry and be much sadder about her son. Marmion, voice of Lester Trainsmith Marmion voices Lester's thoughts. Hotel Desk Clerk Registers Jacie and Adam in the hotel. Waiter 1 Serves Jacie and Adam in the hotel restaurant. He whispers to Jacie that his aware she is an actriod and she needs to leave immediately or will blow her cover. Waiter 2 Serving other customers. Man in Dress Shop. Rich, older man who is impatient about having to wait while his young partner tries an outfits. Girl in Dress Shop. Rich man's young, slender girlfriend dressed in a skimpy outfit. Dress Shop Assistant. Any age. She happy assists Jacie who enthusiastically chooses outfits. Prostitute Mature woman. A rough diamond. She jumps to conclusions about why Jacie and Adam are in the hotel room. Turkey An older man, a pimp. He also jumps to the conclusions about why Jacie and Adam are in the hotel room and approaches them aggressively Farmer - Adam's TV Plot An older man with kindly intensions. Farmer's wife - Adam's TV Plot A mature woman who helps Jacie in need Most small roles can be doubled up for a smaller cast. Rehearsals: Rehearsals: Tuesday nights 7.30pm - 9.30pm Sunday afternoons 2.00pm - 5.00pm (Some Sundays 6.00pm - 9.30pm) Rehearsals commence mid-February 2025 Performances: Performances: Friday 16th May 2025 - 8.00pm Saturday 17th May 2025 - 2.00pm Saturday 17th May 2025 - 8.00pm Friday 28th May 2025 - 8.00pm Saturday 29th May 2025 - 2.00pm Saturday 29th May 2025 - 8.00pm Venue: Venue: Blackwood Memorial Hall 21 Coromandel Parade, Blackwood Auditions: NEW DATE FOR AUDITIONS Sunday 20th October - 1.00PM - 5.00PM Venue: Venue: Blackwood Memorial Hall 21 Coromandel Parade, Blackwood More Information: Contact Myles Leon - President / Production Manager on 0421002802 or email blackwood.players@gmail.com ALMOST, MAINE The Stirling Players Written By: John Cariani Directed By: Ben Proeve Play Summary: “Welcome to Almost, Maine, a place that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States. It’s almost in Canada. And it’s not quite a town, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it almost doesn’t exist. One cold, clear, winter night, as the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night’s dream.” "Almost, Maine" features several vignettes of everyday characters from the same quiet town, all navigating the experience of love. Some are finding it for the first time, some have lost it, and some are trying to rediscover it. Each scene is intimate and all but one feature only two characters, and have different, quirky ways of representing love that push past the boundaries of realism. Roles Available: 6-8 actors aged 18 – early 30s, actors of any gender, ethnicity, background and experience encouraged to audition. Details of the vignettes and characters are available on The Stirling Players website: www.stirlingplayers.org.au Rehearsals: Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons, either in the Stirling Community Theatre or a nearby hall commencing around April Performances: Friday 11th & 18th July at 7.30pm Saturday, 12th July at 3.00pm Sunday, 13th July at 3.00pm Saturday, 19th July at 2.00pm and 7.30pm Venue: Stirling Community Theatre Avenue Road, Stirling Auditions: Tuesday 22nd and Thursday 24th October, 7:20pm-10pm Venue: Stirling Community Theatre Avenue Road, Stirling More Information: Contact Ben Proeve on or email ben.proeve @gmail.com