Play
The King of Plum Pudding
Details
Union:
Not designated
Area of media:
Play
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
Negotiable/to be determined
Deadline:
Feb 5, 2025
Auditions:
Readings from the script, with optional monologue
Cities for response:
Winnipeg
Comments
The play is quite unusual and depends upon very skilled acting. If this can be found, it goes forward, with gusto. If not, there is no point. So nothing is set right now, but will be the moment things cohere, then will mobilize quickly.
Storyline
In 1658, in Britain's Puritan regime after King Charles I was executed, one small party of rebels holes up in a country house in Wales. On Christmas, a faerie and a Druid visit. Romantic/political/spiritual entanglements ensue. All set in a single day, in the parlour room.
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Mistress Blackthorne ( | Female 25 - 45 Years old |
Description Dignified lady, has suffered much. Her family loyalty's with the Puritans, but a Royalist husband. Temperamental but vulnerable also. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Charles Cheeseman | Male 30 - 60 Years old |
Description Venial to the point of gross, but with depths and sorrows of his own. Has Scottish accent. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Enid | Female 18 - 40 Years old |
Description A faerie, not of this world. Neither good nor evil, but dangerous. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Bedevere | Male 40 - 70 Years old |
Description A Druid, one of the last of his kind. Has world-weariness and wisdom both. | ||