AUDITIONS

When Ferris reluctantly agreed to look after his sister's seedy country inn while she's on vacation, he did not anticipate all the wild comings-and-goings involving her affairs! Over the course of his house-sitting, Ferris becomes engulfed in lies, confusions, and bewilderments as he tries prevent the inevitable meetings of husbands, wives, and lovers in assorted compromising situations.

This brilliant suspense thriller, famously adapted into the film Gaslight, concerns an unscrupulous husband slowly driving his wife to insanity in 19th-century London.

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Should you wish to audition for this play, please follow one of the following instructions.

1. To audition as an actor or as a support backstage worker, please complete an application form and email to fundraisingLLT@gmail.com.

2. Send an audition video to fundraisingLLT@gmail.com.
   Your video should demonstrate your flexibility to play a dramatic role (not comedy).

3. Pre-register by emailing  fundraisingLLT@gmail.com and specify your requested date and time. Week of Monday 19th May to Saturday 24th May 2025 (day or evening).

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Angel Street is set in London during the Victorian era. The entire action of the play occurs in a house on Angel Street, located in the Pimlico district of London. The time is 1880.

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Angel Street tells the demoniac story of the Manninghams. Under the guise of kindliness, handsome Mr. Manningham is torturing his wife into insanity. He accuses her of petty aberrations that he has arranged himself; and since her mother died of insanity, she is more than half convinced that she too, is going out of her mind.

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While her diabolical husband is out of the house, a benign police inspector visits her and ultimately proves to her that her husband is a maniacal criminal suspected of a murder committed fifteen years ago in the same house, and that he is preparing to dispose of her. Then starts the game of trying to uncover the necessary evidence against Mr. Manningham. It is a thrilling and exciting melodramatic game of the film noir genre.

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Description of Characters

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Mr. Manningham
He is tall, good looking, about forty-five. He is heavily moustached and bearded and perhaps a little too well dressed. His manner is suave and authoritative, with a touch of mystery and bitterness.

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Mrs. Manningham
She is about thirty-four. She has been good looking, almost a beauty – but now she has a haggard, wan, frightened air, with rings under her eyes, which tell of sleepless nights and worse.

Elizabeth
She is a stout, amiable, subservient woman of fifty.

Nance
She is a self-conscious, pretty, cheeky girl of nineteen.

Rough
He is middle-aged – greying, short, wiry, active, brusque, friendly, overbearing. He has a low, warm chuckle and completely dominates the scene from the beginning.

“Angel Street (Gaslight)” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French Inc.
www.concordtheatricals.com

Five female childhood friends reunite in their historic hometown of Seneca Falls, N.Y., to lay one of their own to rest. As they struggle to come to grips with the surprising death, they reopen old wounds, face harsh realities and confront the compromises they have made in their lives. But as the day wears on, the women learn that even though into each life some rain must fall, the rain offers a cleansing promise of new possibilities.

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With arrangement by Dramatic Publishing.

Details to come.