GMDF Member Societies’ Acting Auditions, Plays, Musicals and Pantomimes

What The Butler Saw (Auditions)

By Joe Orton

Directed by John Cocks-Evans

Audition date: Sun 21 May at 7:30pm

Performance dates: Mon 16 to Sat 21 October (incl. Sat matinee)

About

"The purpose of my husband's clinic isn't to cure, but to liberate and exploit madness..."

When Dr Prentice invents a series of increasingly outrageous lies to cover up his attempts to seduce his young secretary, all manner of confusion breaks out in his psychiatric clinic. A State Inspector, a philandering wife, bellboys, policemen and some missing bits from a statue of Winston Churchill are all caught up in the madness, creating a hysterically funny comedy of circumstance.

Wild, risqué and ferociously playful, Joe Orton's final play is acknowledged as a masterpiece of modern comedy.

Cast

• Dr Prentice – M - A psychiatrist who misuses his position of power.
• Geraldine Barclay – F late teens/early 20s - Naive secretarial candidate.
• Mrs Prentice – F - Prentice’s sexually repressed wife.
• Nicholas Beckett – M late teens/early 20s - Over-sexed bellhop from the local hotel.
• Dr Rance – M - Arrogant psychiatrist and government functionary.
• Sergeant Match – M - Slow-witted police constable who gets caught up in all the sexy antics.

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