Old Nick Theatre Company will be holding Auditions for it’s July production of Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey, directed by Glenn Braithwaite, at their 50a Letitia Street Headquarters on Friday the 23^rd of April from 7.30 pm and Saturday 24^th April between 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm. Audition notices will be in The Mercury on Saturday the 10^th of April and Saturday 17^th of April.

Production season will be at The Peacock Theatre, Salamanca Place from Friday 16^th of July 2010 (Opening Night) and  Saturday 17^th of July. Then Tuesday 20^th July thru to Saturday 24^th July 2010. All performances commence at 8.00 pm.

More information after the break…

“Beautiful Thing” is set in 1993 on a working class South East London council estate called Thamesmead. It follows the bittersweet love story of two 16 year old boys Jamie and Ste. Jamie lives with Sandra his mum who is a barmaid at a local pub. Sandra is searching for a way out of the Estate while trying to maintain her relationship with Tony her boyfriend. She is at odds with her next door neighbour Leah who is a 16 year old school drop out who takes drugs and is obsessed by the music of Mamma Cass. Ste lives with his drug dealing abusive brother and his alcoholic father next door to Jamie. After Ste gets a beating from his brother one night, Sandra invites Ste to stay at her flat. Ste must share Jamie’s bed and with this begins the sexual awakening of the two boys. The play deals with the throws of teenage first love and sexual awakening in a humorous and sometimes tough and tender way. The characters of Jamie and Ste are not effeminate in anyway, they just happen to be two ordinary English working class lads who fall in love for the first time.

Production information and an audition form is available below, as well as some audition pieces. Please read the audition information sheet carefully.

Documents are available in two formats: Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat PDF

For more information, please email beautifulthing@oldnick.org.au