Description

Casting actors for “Improbable Fiction” Play, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED.

About the project:
Six aspiring authors meet on a winter’s evening to discuss their work. Arnold, the chairman attempts to persuade the group to collaborate on a piece of writing, an idea that is quickly dismissed! However, as Arnold is clearing up after the meeting there is a clap of thunder, a blackout, a scream and by some magical power the story that might have been created by the group now happens. With affectionate satire and zany plots the authors are transformed into characters in a Victorian melodrama, a science fiction scenario, a murder mystery and a musical.

Additional info:
Performances: February 6th – March 1, 2026
(Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm, one Thursday evening at 8:00 pm)
Cold read from script. British accents required. No monologue required. Non-AEA / Stipend. Rehearsals: Start Monday, December 1-December 19 then a holiday break. Resume rehearsals Monday, January 5th. Monday-Thursday and one 4 hour slot on the weekend, tbd by the cast and crew. Not necessarily all 4 evenings. Table read at the director’s home in Richmond one evening sometime before Thanksgiving.

Please apply if interested.

7 Project roles
Arnold
46
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59.
Factual writing ; a bachlor, shop assistant, mild-mannered, lives with mother
Application deadline closed.
Jess Bales
30
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59.
Historical romance; a lesbian farmer, cheerful, "salt of the earth" type
Application deadline closed.
Grace Sims
40
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59.
Children’s fiction; a nervous housewife, a worrier
Application deadline closed.
Vivi Dickins
30
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45.
Crime fiction ; single, a journalist, effusive, attractive
Application deadline closed.
Clem Pepp
35
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55.
Science fiction; single, a local council worker, silent, awkward, a bit of a nerd
Application deadline closed.
Brevis Winterton
60
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64.
Musical adaptations; retired schoolteacher, divorced, bad tempered, impatient
Application deadline closed.
Ilsa Wolby
18
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25.
Local village girl who helps out with Arnold’s mum; a shop assistant, a cheerful country lass; In Act 2 she plays a Victorian damsel in distress, a Cockney maid, a goblin
Application deadline closed.