Audition Notice: The Woman in White
The Woman in White Auditions
The Footlight Club is happy to announce upcoming auditions for The Woman in White, based on a novel by Wilkie Collins.
Director: Katie Swimm
Performance Dates (this is a virtual production:
February 19th , 26th , and 27th , 2021
Audition Requirements:
We are accepting video auditions for this production. Please complete the following steps to complete your video audition:
Prepare a 1-2-minute monologue in the style of the show (please review the production description below).
Please film yourself performing this monologue
Please include a headshot and resume (if you have one) with your submission.
Please fill out this audition form and list your conflicts for the rehearsal and production period. Please be thorough. Some conflicts can be scheduled around if we know about them ahead of time.
EMAIL your video submission, headshot, resume, and audition form in ONE email to womaninwhiteflc@gmail.com no later than November 30th, 2021, at 5:00pm EST.
Other Audition Info:
Callbacks, if required, will be held on December 3rd from 6:30-8:30pm on Zoom. Details to follow if you are called back.
We may not hold callbacks, and if callbacks are held, not all roles require a callback.
Actors needed at callbacks will be notified by 10am the day before callbacks. Actors called back will be given sides to work on.
All actors will be notified of casting results following callbacks.
If you have any questions not addressed here, please email Producer Kate Bischoff.
Producing a Play during a Pandemic
The primary concern of The Footlight Club is the health and safety of its performers, production staff, members, and friends. The Woman in White will be an entirely virtual production. This means that all actors should expect to perform safely from the comfort of their own homes. If health and safety guidelines and performers’ willingness allow, some aspects of this production may be filmed in advance. No performer will be asked to meet in person unless they feel comfortable doing so and no casting decisions will be made based on a performers’ willingness. If you have any questions regarding these policies, please email womaninwhiteflc@gmail.com.
About Rehearsals:
Rehearsals will be held via Zoom. 2-3 full cast rehearsals will be held between December 7th and 20th to complete table reads and dramaturgical work. Rehearsals will begin January 4th and run (tentatively) Sunday/Tuesday/Thursday through February. Tech Week runs from February 14th-18th.
SHOW SUMMARY:
The Woman in White is based on the wildly popular 1859 novel by Wilkie Collins. Considered to be a classic of the sensation novel genre, The Woman in White is also considered one of the first and finest examples of detective fiction. The plot follows Walter Hartright, a young drawing teacher who encounters a young woman, dressed all in white, on a dark road in London. From this chance encounter unwinds a tale of mystery, lunacy, revenge, and mistaken identity.
THE CHARACTERS:
The Footlight Club welcomes and encourages qualified performers of all ages, races, ethnicities, abilities, genders, and body types to audition. Please feel free to audition for the role you'd most like to play. Supporting roles may be double cast.
Walter Hartright
A young teacher of drawing, something of an everyman character, and distinguished by a strong sense of justice.
Laura Fairlie
Mr. Fairlie's gentle, guileless, pretty niece: an heiress and orphan.
Marian Halcombe
Laura's elder half-sister and companion; intelligent and resourceful
Anne Catherick ("The Woman in White")
An eccentric young woman distinguished by her insistence on white clothes; an illegitimate daughter of Laura's father.
Mrs. Catherick
Anne's unsympathetic mother; in league with Sir Percival Glyde in committing her daughter to the asylum. Depicted as an unpleasant character.
Sir Percival Glyde, Baronet
Laura's fiancé and then husband; able to appear charming and gracious when he wishes but often abrasive.
Count Fosco
Sir Percival's closest friend; his full name is Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco. eccentric, bombastic, urbane but intelligent and menacing. He keeps canaries and mice as pets.
Countess Fosco
Laura's aunt: once a giddy girl but now humourless and in near-unbroken obedience to her husband.
Professor Pesca
A teacher of Italian and good friend of Walter.
Philip
The valet
Mr. Kyrle
A lawyer
Two Strangers
(members of a secret society!)
Two Men
(attendants at a lunatic asylum)
The Matron at the Lunatic Asylum