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New Season auditions at Chesil Theatre

2/6/2018

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PictureFor Services Rendered Photo Credit: Tony Rogers
An exciting and wide-ranging future programme is planned for the Chesil Theatre Winchester. The 2018/19 season kicks off with Somerset Maugham’s incisive, state-of-the-nation play For Services Rendered, written fourteen years on from the end of the Great War. Open auditions for the 12 diverse roles are being held on 16th and 17th June 2018.
 
Set in a quiet Kent town in 1932, the seemingly ordinary, middle-class Ardsley family appear content in their rural idyll. Yet each continues to be deeply affected by the aftermath of the war. Of the four children, Ethel is unhappily married, Eva, a spinster, has become dedicated only to her blinded brother Sydney, whilst the youngest, Lois, sees no hope for her future in their English backwater. The younger generation must find a new way of living in a country undergoing seismic change.

Director Alec Walters comments:
“This play was generally derided in its day for being unpatriotic or even subversive. However, it certainly packs a dramatic and relevant punch on this the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the Great War.”

Auditions are being held at Chesil Theatre, Chesil Street, Winchester on Saturday 16th June at 10.30am and Sunday 17th June at 7.45pm. There will be an informal reading of the play on Friday 15th June at 7.45pm when newcomers are particularly welcome. Performances take place on 15th to 22nd September 2018 and booking is now open from  today.

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