Auditions for Breathing Corpses

The Pillowman opens on Thursday 20th but we are already thinking about next season with auditions for Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade on Sunday 23rd May 2010 at 7.30pm at Progress Theatre and Wednesday 26th May 2010 at 7.30pm in the small hall at Palmer Park.

Breathing Corpses is a series of scenes and monologues based around various linked deaths. It mixes dark humour with a whodunit element but is ultimately about wasted lives, the breathing corpses of the title,  as much as dead bodies. 

Director Carole Brown was in the play herself last year in a production with theatre group Table Nine where she played Elaine. She also co-directed the production and is looking forward to having a bit more stage space as they were performing in one of the small studio theatres at South Hill Park. Breathing Corpses is normally performed on a very stark stage and she is intending to have more of a set for this production. She is also hoping to be able to cast some of the characters with actors closer to the right ages, the youngest character is 19 and the actors available to Table Nine were slightly more mature. 

Carole's first production with Progress was in Going Postal last Christmas where she played Anghammarad and Miss Maccalariat. She heard about the auditions for Going Postal by joining the Progress mailing list. This is a good way keeping up with events at the theatre (apart from reading this blog of course!). You can sign up for the mailing list here. As well as directing Breathing Corpses, Carole has got involved with costumes for The Pillowman and sound design and operation for Death and the Maiden.

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Coming up...

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh runs from 20th - 29th May 2010

Auditions for Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade. Sunday 23 May 2010 7.30pm Progress Theatre, Wednesday 26 May 2010 7.30pm Palmer Park Church, small hall.

Youth Theatre week - Parcans (12/13 year olds) 14th and 15th June "Is This It?"
Strobes (14/15 year olds) 18th and 19th June Beary Tales and Bored Office Drones.

Death and The Maiden by Ariel Dorfman 5 - 10 July 2010

See www.progresstheatre.co.uk for details of all our productions and auditions.