AUDITION DATES & TIMES
Sunday 12 July 2026 from 10:00AM
SYNOPSIS
A sharp social comedy about loyalty, hypocrisy and the price we put on relationships. When academic Peter is suddenly hit by financial trouble, his affluent circle of friends are quick with sympathy but painfully slow to offer real help. As their self-interest and moral discomfort bubble to the surface, the play exposes the fragile contracts that hold friendships together, and how quickly generosity evaporates when money enters the equation.
TIME PERIOD: early 1990s
SETTING: A coastal settlement two hours south of Sydney
CHARACTERS – ALL characters require Australian accents.
Margaret Connelly
Gender: Female
Playing Age: 40s
Margaret is a university history lecturer in history, a career that she does not find fulfilling. She is divorced, attractive, has a somewhat prickly manner. She narrates some of the action.
Peter
Gender: Male
Playing Age: 40s
Peter is a professor of pure mathematics at the same university as Margaret; they are good friends. He is a recent widower, a gentle and polite man, mostly.
Conrad Wesson
Gender: Male
Playing Age: late 50s
Conrad was a biologist and is now television personality specialising in the environmental conservation. He is handsome and has an amiable manner.
Jaquie Wesson
Gender: Female
Playing Age: early 30s
Jaquie is Conrad’s third wife, a former lifestyle magazine journalist. She has a deadpan manner but is tough and smart. She is pregnant.
Stephen Armstrong
Gender: Male
Playing Age: mid 40s
Stephen is an orthopaedic surgeon. He has a gloomy and adversarial disposition and feels the world is against him.
Penny Armstrong
Gender: Female
Playing Age: mid 40s
Penny is Stephen’s wife. She is an optimistic woman despite being married to Stephen. She went to arts school and paints, with her work being exhibited occasionally.
Alex Calabresi
Gender: Male
Playing Age: mid 40s
Alex is a corporate lawyer, son of migrant Italian parents. He is forceful, bombastic and very competitive.
Vicki Calabrese
Gender: Female
Playing Age: early 40s
Vicki is Alex’s wife. From established North Shore stock she married down. She is glamorous and a social climber and name-dropper.
Justin Wesson
Gender: Male
Playing Age: 24
Justin is Conrad’s son from his first marriage. He is an intense young man, good looking.
LOCATION:
All auditions, rehearsals and performances are at The Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith St, Macedon
PERFORMANCE DATES:
9 shows over 3 weekends, 6th to 22nd Nov, 2026.
Performance times each weekend are:
Friday and Saturday, 8.00 pm
Sunday, 2.00 pm
CALL BERNADETTE ON 0419 348 387 TO BOOK AN AUDITION:
Please check that you are available for all performance dates before booking your audition time. Please also inform the director if there are any rehearsal dates on which you are not available. You must also advise if there is a possibility of you taking on professional acting work that may conflict with rehearsal and performance dates.
It is necessary that you are familiar with the play and should know it well enough to be able to describe the “story”. A copy of the script is available from the director.
Audition will be by individual appointment, at 15 minute intervals. Auditions will involve reading from specified sections of the script. There is no need to memorise anything for the audition.
Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to review the audition pieces and complete an audition form if you’ve not already completed one.