Amateur Dramatic Company
We launched our Amateur Dramatic Company in November 2021 with our first production Legally Blonde! The show was an amazing success and sold out with extra performance and seats added! In 2023 we staged our second production – Grease! Then in 2024 it was Oliver! 2025 9 to 5 and in 2026 Sister Act. In 2026 we added plays into the mix. Our first Am dram play was Pride and Prejudice.
- Dates & Times
Sundays – October – April
- Minimum Age
- Suitable for ages 16 and over
Past Shows
CASTING
Noises Off
Audition Date – 27th September
Performance Dates – 5th – 14th Feb (no show Mon 8th)
Tech Dates – 2nd Feb 4-10pm, 3rd Feb 12-10pm, 4th Feb 12-10pm
Rehearsal Dates – Sundays pm from October – Feb
Character Breakdown
· Dotty Otley / Mrs. Clackett
- Offstage: A late-middle-aged actress and financial backer of the show. She is forgetful, flustered, and entangled in a messy jealous romance with Garry.
- Onstage: Mrs. Clackett, a slow-witted, hospitable Cockney housekeeper who loves sardines.
· Garry Lejeune / Roger Tramplemain
- Offstage: An energetic, highly insecure actor who struggles to finish his sentences and flies into jealous rages. He is dating Dotty.
- Onstage: Roger Tramplemain, an estate agent trying to let an empty house.
· Brooke Ashton / Vicki
- Offstage: A gorgeous, young, and clueless actress who constantly loses her contact lenses and remains completely oblivious to backstage drama.
- Onstage: Vicki, a tax authority worker
· Frederick Fellowes / Philip Brent
- Offstage: A nervous, accident-prone actor with high anxiety who gets nosebleeds under stress.
- Onstage: Philip Brent (a tax-evading businessman)
· Belinda Blair / Flavia Brent
- Offstage: A sensible, cheerful, and professional actress who acts as the unofficial glue of the cast while eagerly gossiping.
- Onstage: Flavia Brent, Philip’s sensible English wife.
· Selsdon Mowbray / The Burglar
- Offstage: A half-deaf veteran actor with a severe drinking problem who frequently disappears in search of a bottle.
- Onstage: A burglar who keeps breaking into the house.
· Lloyd Dallas
- Offstage: The exhausted, temperamental director caught in a chaotic romantic triangle with both Brooke and Poppy.
- Onstage: Does not appear in Nothing On.
· Tim Allgood
- Offstage: The overworked, panicked company and stage manager forced to fix everything, run errands, and occasionally understudy roles.
- Onstage: Does not appear, though he is forced to step in during emergencies.
· Poppy Norton-Taylor
- Offstage: The sensitive, emotional assistant stage manager who is secretly pregnant with Lloyd’s child and deeply jealous of Brooke.
- Onstage: Does not appear.
To apply please email INES at Info@hopemilltheatre.co.uk
Guys & Dolls
Audition Date – 4th October
Rehearsal Dates – 22nd and 29th November and Sundays Jan – April
Tech Dates – Sat 27th March 3-7pm, Mon 29th March 12 -10pm, Tues and wed 30th and 31st March 6pm – 10pm
Performance Dates – 1st – 11th April (no show Monday 5th April)
Character Breakdown
SKY MASTERSON – Vocal range: Eb4 – B2.
A high-stakes gambler whose luck never seems to run out, and a wild card who surprises himself when he falls in love with the unlikeliest of women. Suave, smart, handsome.
SARAH BROWN – Vocal range G#5 – B3.
A pretty, bright-eyed woman who serves as Sergeant of the local Mission. She fully believes in her worthy cause and wishes to convert the gambling sinners to saints. Falls unexpectedly in love with Sky along the way. She is prudish and uptight, but eventually let’s go.
NATHAN DETROIT – Vocal range: F4 – D3.
A good-hearted gambler and craps game organizer who could never hit the bigtime. He loves Adelaide but cannot quit his gambling ways. A broke schemer with unwitting ways.
MISS ADELAIDE – Vocal range: Eb5 – Ab3.
Nathan’s fiancé and a lead performer at the Hot Box nightclub. She loves Nathan more than anything in the world and desperately wants to get married. Pretty, outspoken, stubborn.
NICELY-NICELY JOHNSON – Vocal range: Bb4 – Db3
Just like his name suggests, he is the nicest and cheeriest of the gambling crooks. High-spirited and a bit naïve, but sincere and genuine. Nathan’s loyal friend and lackey.
ARVIDE ABERNATHY – Vocal range E4 – D3.
The bass drum and cymbal player in the Mission band, he is Sarah’s loving grandfather. Wise and sweet, he wants nothing but the best for her.
HARRY THE HORSE – Vocal range G5 – F3.
A crook and gambler. He is a tough guy with dollar signs as his bottom line. Brings Big Jule into Nathan’s craps game and backs his cheating but is also a man of his word in the gambling community.
BIG JULE- Vocal range: G5 – F3.
A big-time craps player from Chicago who uses a gun and his own pair of rigged dice to bully his way into never losing. Tough looking. A bit of an oaf.
LT. BRANNIGAN – NON-SINGER
A New York police officer who is on to Nathan’s illegal craps games and is dead set on catching him. A tough, no-nonsense character.
BENNY SOUTHSTREET – Vocal range G4 – Db3.
Nathan’s right-hand man and a gambler himself. Smart, slick, always moving and shaking, but with what he thinks are Nathan’s best interest at heart.
RUSTY CHARLIE – Vocal range F4 – Db3
GENERAL MATILDA CARTWRIGHT – Female, 40+, Mezzo
ENSEMBLE
ENSEMBLE – Sightseers, Mission Band (AGATHA, CALVIN, MARTHA), Crap Shooters (LIVER LIPS LOUIE, ANGIE THE OX), Master of Ceremonies, Drunk, Waiter, Cuban Dancers, and JOEY BILTMORE. And HOT BOX GIRLS – (MIMI, ALLISON, VERNON, FERGUSON) Performers who back- up Adelaide in her night club act. Strong dancers and singers. Will double into other areas of the ensemble.
To apply please email Christina at info@hopemilltheatre.co.uk