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Audition Notice

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Audition information for our first play of the season:

“The Fighting Days”, written by Wendy Lill, directed by Simon Challenger

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Synopsis:

Set in Winnipeg during 1910-1917, the play focuses on the life and work of Francis Marion Beynon, a Manitoba journalist and political activist. When the play opens, she meets Nellie McClung and becomes involved in the Votes-for-Women movement. As the newly hired writer and editor of the women’s page in The Rural Review, her views end up becoming controversial when Canada becomes involved in World War l and the conscription crisis divides the suffragists. A play about the polarities of public and private lives and issues of racism and pacifism, “The Fighting Days” deals with timeless moral concerns.

Arts Manitoba describes it as -  “An unusually insightful investigation of social conscience.”

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Required: 3 females and one male actor to play the following roles

 

FRANCIS BEYNON– Aged 18-25

LILY – Aged 25-30

NELLIE McCLUNG – Aged 35-40

GEORGE McNAIR – Aged 35-40, editor of “The Rural Review”

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Audition will take place at Newton Cultural Centre, 13530-72 Ave. Surrey, from 1:00 – 5:00 pm, Saturday October 2nd

Rehearsals will take place weekly on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 – 9:00 pm October 6th – November 10th. First two rehearsals via zoom, the rest, at Newton Cultural Centre.

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Performances will take place: Nov. 12 and 13, 7:30 pm and Nov. 14 2:30 pm at Newton Cultural Centre. Nov. 19 7:30 pm at Theatre in the Country, 5708 Glover Road, Langley.

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All actors must have proof of vaccination.

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For more information and to book an audition time, please contact the producer, Kelly Thompson at kellyinva@gmail.com