English Theatre of Hamburg Looks for Cast Members for FUNNY ABOUT LOVE

The English Theatre of Hamburg is now casting for Terence Frisby's comedy Funny About Love, to be directed by Robert Rumpf.

Actors should be prepared to work abroad from 31 October to 12 February, 2011.

Story:
Rosie (late 40s-early 50s) is shocked when her 53 year-old husband, Piers, leaves her for Larissa, his young secretary. Not long afterwards Rosie is living alone in her London flat when a young man, Darren, insists on talking to her. It is soon clear why-he is the jilted husband of Piers' secretary. Darren's anger at also being rejected reignites Rosie's and, together, they plot and carry out an extraordinary revenge. Darren moves in with Rosie, awaking new feelings of romance and motherhood in her. Larissa gets pregnant and tells Piers the child is his (it's really Darren's). To her great delight, Rosie also gets pregnant and Darren is the father. Things get more complicated when Piers' world falls apart financially and he and Larissa are forced to return to the flat Piers used to share with Rosie. Rosie, Darren, Piers and Larissa end up living together, but not for long.

Casting Director: Gordon Griffin

Casting will take place from 3 to 14 October, 2011 in London
Please send suggestions with CVs and photos to:
Gordon Griffin
20 Canfield Gardens, London,
NW6 3LA
NO TELEPHONE CALLS

Dates: Travel to Hamburg: 30 October, 2011
Rehearsals begin (in Hamburg): 31 October, 2011
Previews: 21-23 November, 2011
Opening Night: 24 November, 2011
Final Performance: 11 February, 2012

Applicants must be holders of an EC passport.

Rate: The weekly net fee paid for rehearsal and performance periods amounts to Euro 260,-- The gross salary will vary depending on deductions for tax and social insurances. Payment is made in cash in Hamburg beginning the first Friday of employment. At the end of the run actors will receive a statement of earnings including all deductions. The theatre provides transportation to Hamburg and back to England as well as accommodation in Hamburg.

Characters:

Rosie Boston (Female)
late 40s-early 50s
Rosie is an attractive middle-aged woman. An important character trait is Rosie's clever and witty, and sometimes lethal, use of sarcasm. It is her way of protecting herself from people who are inconsiderate of her feelings. She has been married to Piers for 22 years. Her husband has a good paying job, good enough for Rosie to do volunteer work for Greenpeace and Amnesty International four days a week. She is an educated woman who cares deeply about world peace and the environment. Rosie and Piers tried repeatedly to have children, but to no avail. They decided to accept their fate and have reconciled to being "child free," not "childless." But the absence of children has caused them to drift apart, so much so that Piers is having an affair with his young secretary, Larissa. After Piers moves in with Larissa, Rosie is alone until Larissa's young husband, Darren, pays Rosie a surprise visit and ends up falling in love with her. Darren moves in with Rosie and she encourages the young man to reach his goal of acquiring a diploma in business management and getting a good paying job. She gets pregnant and is deliriously happy about it. She puts off telling Darren (the father to be) the good news because, after he graduates and gets the good job he was hoping for, she assumes he will want to leave her. Not so. Darren's job is in Swindon and, unable to live without Rosie, he asks her to move there with him. She does.

Piers Boston (Male)
53 years old
Piers Boston is 53 years old. He has lived with his wife, Rosie, for twenty-two years and they have tried many times, unsuccessfully, to have children. When they finally gave up, they started drifting apart. Piers is rejuvenated when he finds love and happiness (he thinks) in a relationship with his young secretary, Larissa. She gets pregnant and tells Piers that he is the father. Not true. She has left her young husband, Darren (the father of her unborn child), for the well-to-do Piers because she wants a man who can take care of her and the child. Piers runs out of money when his firm goes bankrupt, and he and Larissa are so desperate that they have to move in with his estranged wife, Rosie. Piers and Darren (who has in the meantime moved in with Rosie) hate each other and come close to exchanging blows. Piers tries every day to get a job, but no one is interested in hiring a 53 year-old man with his qualifications. He cannot even get unemployment compensation because he has always been self-employed. To make matters worse, Darren tricks Piers into thinking that his two valuable paintings (that have been in his family for generations) have been destroyed. The paintings, worth one million pounds each, are really safe, but Piers does not know it. Selling them could have been his salvation. Now Piers' is desperate and his situation looks hopeless. In the end Piers is able to retrieve the paintings, but both his pregnant wife and his pregnant mistress decide to move to Swindon with Darren who has found a good job. He realizes now that he is the one, not Rosie, who is infertile. Left alone in the flat with his two paintings, he faces an uncertain future.

Larissa Tucker (Female)
Middle 20s to early 30s.
Larissa is the young, somewhat naïve wife of Darren. She gets pregnant and is afraid that Darren, who earns very little money, will not be able to support her and the child. In desperation she has an affair with her boss, Piers Boston, and tells the older man that the child is his. Piers moves in with her, but loses his job and falls on hard times. Larissa encourages him to find another job, but the unlucky Piers remains unemployed. To top it off they have to leave Larissa's flat where they have been living, because Piers cannot afford to pay the mortgage. Their situation is so hopeless that, as a last resort, Piers asks Rosie if he and Larissa can move in with her and Darren. The well-meaning Larissa is no match for Rosie's sharp tongue, but the two women find a way to tolerate each other. In the end Larissa dumps Piers and goes to Swindon to live with Rosie and Darren, the father of both unborn children.

Darren Tucker (Male)
Late 20s--Early 30s.
Darren is a sexually attractive, ruggedly handsome young man whose father left his family when he was still a child. He vowed never to do that to any of his children. He is intelligent but uneducated. When his wife, Larissa, leaves him for Piers, an older man, he is furious. In desperation he visits Rosie, the wife of the man who is having an affair with Darren's wife. Rosie encourages him to work towards his dream of getting a degree and finding a good job. The two fall in love and Darren moves in with her. He persuades Rosie to help him get revenge on their two former partners for dumping them. Rosie gets pregnant after thinking for years that she was infertile. Darren gets his diploma and a good job in Swindon, and asks Rosie to move there with him. In the meantime Piers' relationship with Larissa gets rocky and she confesses to Darren that he, not Piers, is the father of her unborn child. Keeping true to his vow not to abandon his children, Darren sees that the only solution to the dilemma is to get Larissa and Rosie to move to Swindon and live with him. Both women eagerly agree to his proposal.

 

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