As part of our 'Evening of Three One-Act Plays' scheduled for 19th – 22nd February 2025 we have an audition and Read Through Notice - Tuesday 17th December 2024

My Best Friend - By Tamsin Oglesby. Starts at 7:30pm at the theatre.

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My Best Friend will be performed as one of the one act plays for the IES February

Production. It is a high energy drama with a splattering of comedy. It is roughly an

hour long (maybe a bit more…) and has a cast of three women. All three characters

have equal size roles which will be perfect for anyone looking for a meaty part to

play!

 

So what’s the play about? Bee and Em have been best friends for thirty years:

they're on holiday in rural France, away from the demands of work and family. But

just as they're setting the clocks forward, in steps Chris, a blast from their school

days past. As the evening wears on, the three women joke and fight with one

another just like the old times. They bond. But time plays tricks with memory and

some wounds are just too deep to heal. Old tensions and wounds emerge and

revelation after revelation of painful truths surface and the play builds up to a very

surprising and shocking ending.

 

Tamsin Oglesby is a modern playwright who is currently commissioned to the Old Vic

Theatre, London. She has written many plays for stage and radio and her adaptation

of Russell Hoban’s The Mouse and his Child was a sell-out success at the RSC. My

Best Friend which was first published in 2015 and performed at the Hampstead

Theatre, London.

 

If YOU fancy taking part in an emotional roller coaster of a play, please come along

on the 17th December!!

 

NB: You’ll also be very welcome if you don’t want to act but would like to just read

this provocative and hilarious play.

 

If you want to audition but can't make the 17th December, do get in contact.

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We are also looking for actors so if you are keen to tread the boards then let us know what type of play would bring you along to an audition at our fabulous theatre.

If you are interested, please contact Lucy Driver directly on 01460 55416 or email lucydriver2000@gmail.com