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Audition Notice "Sleeping Beauty"

The Young Vic Production by Rufus Norris

Director Rosemary Bianchi, MD Roger Nobes

Audition dates 10th and 11th September
7.30 p.m

Yes, it's about the princess who is cursed to fall asleep for one hundred years, but seen through the eyes of the fairy who casts the spell in the first place, then somehow has to undo the mess that she has created. We see what happens after the princess is woken by her prince.

There is great scope for comedy, imagination and atmosphere in the show. A minimum of 10 people are needed for the ensemble cast, though ideally we need about 15-20 to include the Forest Creatures, Thorns, Courtiers etc. There is music in the play, with everyone required to join in at some stage, but this is NOT a musical.

Characters:

• Fairy Goody, a scruffy slightly flatulent fairy of indeterminate age (F)
• Prince of Questions, a lost prince (M/F)
• Ogre (could be played by two actors) terrifying but appealing (M)
• King Beauty, Beauty's father, well meaning but weak (M)
• Queen Beauty, highly strung and squeaky clean (F)
• Beauty, feisty, knows her own mind (F)
• Minstrel, who sings all their lines with attitude (M/F)
• Ogress, a queen with something to hide (F/M)
• Prince, her son, dashing and brave (M)
• Table Slave, servant to the ogress, chained to their work (M/F)
• Forest creatures, strange but harmless. Courtiers, Thorns, Slaves, Good Fairies (yuck) donkey and goats