NELL GWYNN
directed by Max Walker. Read-through at the Club Night on Monday 11th March 2024 (1930h) and auditions on Monday 25th March (1930h), with Thursday 28th March reserved for further auditions. If you would like to be considered but cannot make Monday 25th, please contact Max (after 5pm) on 07703 137225 or email mgcwalker96@gmail.com
CHARACTERS
THE LADIES
Nell Gwynn (19 - 36) - our heroine.
Rose Gwynn (unknown, ?20’s) - Nell’s sister.
Nancy (unknown, ?Mid-20’s) - Nell’s dresser and confidante.
Lady Castlemaine (29 - 46) - Charles’s most ambitious mistress.
Louise de Keroualle (20 - 37) - Charles’s French mistress.
Queen Catherine (31 - 48) - Charles’s Portuguese wife.
Old Ma Gwynn (unknown, ?Nell + 25) - Nell’s mother, a brothel madam.
THE GENTS
King Charles II (39 - 55) - the King, obviously.
Charles Hart (44 - 61) - leading actor in the King’s Company.
Thomas Killigrew (56 - 73) - actor-manager of the King’s Company.
Edward Kynaston (29 - 46) - actor in the King’s Company, plays the women’s parts.
John Dryden (38 - 55) - playwright.
Lord Arlington (51 - 68) - Charles II’s adviser.
Ned Spiggett (up to mid-20’s) - actor in training in the King’s Company.
There can be some doubling and there are some smaller parts / ensemble who will take part in the singing.
MAYFEST 2024
Can you help with a RADS performance for MayFest? I’m planning a short panto-style version of a fifteenth century tale of Robin Hood - ‘Robin & the Poor Knight’ - it’s one of the oldest of the tales, and nicely comedic. It’s one I originally adapted as a two-hander, but it would work really well as a five-hander, with the parts allotted thus:
Robin Hood male or female, any age
Poor Knight male, older
Abbot male, any age
Little John / Maid Marian female, any age
Prior/Merry Man male, any age
All parts may also be narrators at one point or another. The piece would be around 20 minutes long, the style knockabout (imagine a troupe of fairly rough-and-ready wandering players), and ideally it would be off-book. However, the narration would be read from a book, which would be on stage and could also serve as a prompt.
All to happen on Monday 6th May 2024, at Richmond Castle. Open air, with a wet weather alternative as required, a couple of performances during the day as part of a fairly
packed programme!
Readthrough Monday 12th February as part of our Club Night. Auditions to take place also on Thursday 28th March (1930h), be ready for a couple of rehearsals a week through April…
Gill Page 07931 357618
Richmond MayFest