Deathtrap - Reading
Reading: Sunday 20th October 2024, 6.00 pm - Foyer
Auditions: Sunday 27th October 2024, 6.00 pm – Coward/Yardley
Performances: Tuesday 11th - Saturday 15th February 2025 (Auditorium)
Director: Steve Taylor
A washed-up playwright, Sydney, finds a chance to rise to the top once more, a shot he'd be willing to kill for. Having not written a hit play for 18 years, he receives a script from a former student, Clifford, that’s a guaranteed success. His wife, Myra, suggests the two should collaborate and Sydney jokes that it would be just as easy to murder the young man and steal the script for his own.
When Clifford arrives later that evening, no one - not even the visiting psychic Helga - could predict where the dark events of the night will go.
Who is innocent? Who only seems that way? Is anyone really safe when a man sees a clean shot at success?
Deathtrap is a sharply funny play full of twists and turns that keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
The play is set in Westport Connecticut.
Characters and playing age
- Sydney Bruhl Late 40s/early50s
- Myra Bruhl Late 30s/mid 40s
- Cliff Anderson Mid/late 20s
- Helga ten Dorp (Dutch psychic) Late 40s/early 50s
- Porter Milgrim Lawyer mid 50s
Audition pieces will be available at the reading. Everyone is welcome – we look forward to seeing you there.
Play readings are not just for prospective actors, but for anyone who would like to join in reading the play – or just listen to it being read. The readings are informal social occasions when the bar is open - we enjoy meeting new people and welcoming them to our club. There is no obligation to audition for the play or even to read – and there’s no need to book, just turn up!
For more information artistic@teddingtontheatreclub.org.uk
