Auditions for Baby With The Bathwater, Western Cape

Men and women 18 - 100 Years old, Western Cape

Auditions: Baby with the Bathwater

When: Sunday, July 8 at 5PM - 6PM

Where: Playhouse Theatre Somerset West, Corner Lourensford Road & Swalle Road, 7130 Somerset West, Western Cape

AUDITION INFORMATION:
An absurdist, dark comedy, Baby with the Bathwater, starts with new parents John and Helen staring lovingly at their baby, Daisy. The scene quickly takes a turn, however, as the couple show absolutely no knowledge of how to adequately care for their child. They have determined not to look at the gender of their child, so as to not be impolite and have simply assumed that the baby is a girl (when in fact, the baby is a boy); they sing horrifying lyrics to the tune of “Hush Little Baby”. Luckily, a nanny shows up, appropriately dubbed “Nanny” -- but she turns out to be a Mary-Poppins-Gone-Wrong. Daisy is tossed, screamed at, handed a poisonous toy, and even stolen by a disturbed woman, who proceeds to run in front of a bus. Needless to say, as the play continues, Daisy grows up to be quite an unstable child, with a tendency to run in front of moving objects, sleep with inordinate numbers of partners, and take thirteen years to get through his sophomore year of college. After three hundred seventy-seven sessions with a therapist, Daisy is told, “Pull yourself together! You’re smart, you have resources, you can’t blame them forever. Move on with it!” Somehow this reprimand is the advice Daisy finally needed to hear to move on with his life.

CHARACTERS:

Helen - Female Lead

John - Male Lead

Young Man (Daisy) - Male Lead

Nanny - Female Supporting

Cynthia - Female Supporting

A Woman in the Park (Kate) - Female Featured

Another Woman in the Park (Angela) - Female Featured

Mrs. Willoughby (the principal) - Female Featured

Miss Pringle (the teacher) - Female Featured

Susan - Female Featured

(We will double up on supporting and featuring roles)

If you have any queries, please contact Yanou on [email protected]

There will be 7 shows in total:

15, 19, 20, 21, 22, September 2018 19:30

16, 22, September 2018 15:00

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