Can you help with our casting dilemma?
Bartholomew Players are putting on "Silver Lining" by Sandi Toksvig in November & have almost finished casting it. It tells the tale of a group of extraordinary women who come together one treacherous night to recreate The Great Escape – senior citizen style. We are searching for a young black actress to play the character Hope Daley. It’s a cracking part. Unfortunately the young woman we originally cast has dropped out & we are running out of options. It will be a crying shame if we cannot put on this hilarious comedy for that reason. Do you know of anyone who fits the bill?
Description from the script when Hope enters:
Hope Daley is a temporary agency carer.
Hope is a young black woman. She wears skinny ripped jeans, a cropped-top T shirt and an oversized hoodie. She has a black bin liner with a hole in it which she is using as a raincoat. She wears Adidas Superstar trainers and carries a plastic bag. She puts down the bag and immediately starts taking selfies. She thinks the bin liner looks great.
We also learn later that she was born in Croydon – so we are ideally looking for a south London accent and the script is written this way and very much in a young person’s language.
We need to cast the role of Hope by mid-August. Rehearsals start in September – Mondays & Wednesday evenings in Eynsham Village Hall. We are a friendly group & often perform to sell-out audiences. Would you mind circulating this email?
If you can help in any way, please call Denise on 07721 744020 or e-mail bart.players@gmail.com
MANY THANKS!