WORKSHOP PLAYERS AUDITIONS

 

PACK OF LIES

 

BY HUGH WHITEMORE

 

by arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

 

 

TIME: Monday, April 6, 2020 at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 7 p.m.

 

 

LOCATION: Workshop Players Theater

44820 Middle Ridge Rd.

Amherst, Ohio

PRODUCTION DATES: June 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14

 

 

SYNOPSIS: In the early 1960s, loyalty, duty and friendship conflict with one another in suburban London when an ordinary family is enlisted by MI5, Britain’s intelligence agency, to keep watch on its neighbors and best friends who, the Jacksons are shocked to discover, are suspected Russian spies.

 

 

ROLES:[Note: Actors must be able to play the ages indicated. Some characters have British accents.]

 

Barbara Jackson (40s)– Stay-at-home English wife and mother who becomes increasingly distressed over the government’s intrusion into her home

 

Bob Jackson (40s)– Husband and father, generally content with life, who must balance family stability with duty to country

 

Julie Jackson (16-17)– Bright, outgoing British high school student who, of course, spends time with a boy of whom her mother disapproves

 

Stewart (40+)– Courteous but quietly intimidating MI5 agent who treats candor as just another item in his toolbox

 

Helen Kroger (45-55)– Vivacious, slightly vulgar but inoffensive American neighbor of the Jacksons whom Bob describes as a “Dizzy Lizzy”

 

Peter Kroger (50s)– Helen’s husband, an affable antiquarian book dealer whose mysterious business activities mask more nefarious schemes

 

Thelma (25-35)– Well-mannered “ex-regular army girl” assigned to the Jackson home by Stewart to surveil the neighborhood

 

Sally (25-35)– Pleasant second agent assigned to the Jackson home by Stewart (appears briefly in Act II)

 

 

Auditions will consist of readings from the script.

 

Production dates are June 4, 5, 6, 7 and June 12, 13 and 14.

 

For more information, contact the director, Brad Sales, at hanlonsrazor@msn.com.

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