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Monday, October 16 from 5:00pm to 9:00pm
Tuesday, October 17 from 5:00pm to 9:00pm
St. Margaret School
85 Carmichael Avenue , North York
(near Avenue Rd. & Wilson. Click here for a map.)
Call the Staff Arts line at 416-222-8282, Ext. 2787. Leave your name, the spelling of your name, and a daytime and evening phone number where you can be reached. Someone will return your call.
There are 12 characters in the play, as well as opportunities to work behind the scenes.
All current and retired staff are invited to come out and participate in this theatrical experience.
All candidates for potential roles in this production should bring a monologue of your own choosing, preferably from a comedy. Also, you will be given a reading from the play, at the director’s choice, for your audition. The latter will be given to you upon arrival. We are not necessarily concerned with exact age-appropriateness to the listed characters.
Please come prepared with your material and be punctual for your appointed time.
(12 characters -- 7 males, 5 females)
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Dr. David Mortimore |
male, early fifties, charming, slightly pompous |
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Dr. Mike Connolly |
male, exuberant in his late twenties |
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Rosemary Mortimore |
female, David's wife, slightly younger, attractive |
| * |
Dr. Hubert Bonney |
male, early fifties, insignificant, enthusiastic |
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Sir Willoughby Drake |
male, elderly, stern, gentlemanly |
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Jane Tate |
female, forty, pretty and cuddly |
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Matron |
female, runs her department like an army general |
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Sister |
female, nurse |
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Leslie |
male, 18 year old, drunk and punkish |
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Sergeant |
male, middle-aged, uniformed policeman |
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Bill |
male, old gentleman in wheelchair |
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Mother |
female, Dr. Bonney's mother, energetic |
* (asterisk) indicates a substantial role
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Set in the doctor's lounge of a London hospital three days before Christmas, the staff is preparing the annual holiday show. But that is only the sideshow. The real business is a conference of neurosurgeons. As Dr. David Mortimore is preparing his lecture that should guarantee him a knighthood and the hospital some badly needed funds, former nurse bursts in with the news that their fling some 18 years and 9 months ago made Mortimore a father.
The boy is downstairs desperate to meet his long lost Dad. In true farce style, lies pile on lies, as the doctor enlists his colleagues to deceive his wife, his boss, a police sergeant and even his newfound son. Sharp syringes, crashing wheelchairs, squirting selzer bottles, doctors disguised as nurses, and window ledge wrestling matches gear the farce into overdrive.
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