Auditions are now open soon for our last production of 2024, The Sweet Delilah Swim Club.
Audition Date: Saturday 3rd August, 10am - 4pm.
On Stage: Thursday 3rd - Saturday 5th October (including a Saturday matinee), Wednesday 9th - Saturday 12th October (no matinee)
The Play
Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids, and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage, the "Sweet Delilah," on North Carolina's Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other's lives. The Sweet Delilah Swim Club focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years.
As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, ageing) that life flings at them. and when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of teamwork, rally around their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction.
The characters in this play will be portrayed at ages 44, 49, 54 and 77.
The decision whether or not to do American accents will be made after auditions in consultation with the cast. Characterisation is more important than accents.
Characters
Sheree Hollinger - The perennial team captain, is practical, supportive and a fount of boundless energy. Never without her to-do lists or pocket scheduler, her tendency to be hyper-organised occasionally drives her friends a bit crazy. She's the eternal tomboy, a health nut and an all-American mom who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her family.
Dinah Grayson - The wise-cracking cynic of the group, has fought her way to the top and relishes the view. A lawyer in the biggest and most prestigious law firm in Atlanta, Dinah excels at everything … except romance. Armed with a dry martini and an even drier sense of humour, Dinah seldom reveals her softer side as she tackles life head-on.
Lexie Richards - From Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the delightfully vain, youth-obsessed event planner for a chain of four-star hotels. She has never shied away from the occasional nip or tuck and keeps her cosmetic surgeon on speed dial. Always one to revel in her status as a man-magnet, Lexie can be counted on to share wild and hilarious tales of her romantic exploits.
Jeri Neal McFeeley - The ditzy ray of sunshine of the group. She's perky and naive and always sees the positive side of everything. Having been a nun for many years, Jeri Neal has been protected from life's seamier side. Even though she appears to be predictable on the surface, Jeri Neal, recently relocated to Roanoke, Virginia, continually makes life choices that surprise and amaze her friends.
Vernadette Simms - A hard luck case if there ever was one. Marriage and motherhood came shortly after college, a dark cloud has hovered above her ever since. A public school teacher, with limited finances and a problematic home life in Spivey's Corner, North Carolina, Vernadette is self-deprecating by necessity. She faces her tribulations with gallows humour and the unwavering support of these lifelong friends.
Auditions
When you book your audition slot we will send you a few pages of the script so you can familiarise yourself with them. They do not need to be learned by heart; we will have printed versions available on the day.
On Stage: Thursday 3rd - Saturday 5th October (including a Saturday matinee), Wednesday 9th - Saturday 12th October (no matinee)
The Play
Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids, and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage, the "Sweet Delilah," on North Carolina's Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other's lives. The Sweet Delilah Swim Club focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years.
As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, ageing) that life flings at them. and when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of teamwork, rally around their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction.
The characters in this play will be portrayed at ages 44, 49, 54 and 77.
The decision whether or not to do American accents will be made after auditions in consultation with the cast. Characterisation is more important than accents.
Characters
Sheree Hollinger - The perennial team captain, is practical, supportive and a fount of boundless energy. Never without her to-do lists or pocket scheduler, her tendency to be hyper-organised occasionally drives her friends a bit crazy. She's the eternal tomboy, a health nut and an all-American mom who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her family.
Dinah Grayson - The wise-cracking cynic of the group, has fought her way to the top and relishes the view. A lawyer in the biggest and most prestigious law firm in Atlanta, Dinah excels at everything … except romance. Armed with a dry martini and an even drier sense of humour, Dinah seldom reveals her softer side as she tackles life head-on.
Lexie Richards - From Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the delightfully vain, youth-obsessed event planner for a chain of four-star hotels. She has never shied away from the occasional nip or tuck and keeps her cosmetic surgeon on speed dial. Always one to revel in her status as a man-magnet, Lexie can be counted on to share wild and hilarious tales of her romantic exploits.
Jeri Neal McFeeley - The ditzy ray of sunshine of the group. She's perky and naive and always sees the positive side of everything. Having been a nun for many years, Jeri Neal has been protected from life's seamier side. Even though she appears to be predictable on the surface, Jeri Neal, recently relocated to Roanoke, Virginia, continually makes life choices that surprise and amaze her friends.
Vernadette Simms - A hard luck case if there ever was one. Marriage and motherhood came shortly after college, a dark cloud has hovered above her ever since. A public school teacher, with limited finances and a problematic home life in Spivey's Corner, North Carolina, Vernadette is self-deprecating by necessity. She faces her tribulations with gallows humour and the unwavering support of these lifelong friends.
Auditions
When you book your audition slot we will send you a few pages of the script so you can familiarise yourself with them. They do not need to be learned by heart; we will have printed versions available on the day.