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"An Inspector Calls" Play Needs Actors

Barnstable, MA, United States
ID: 198426Exp: 12/12/2022
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The company is holding auditions for "AN INSPECTOR CALLS" Show and looking for actors, please see the details below. About the project: In this classic British thriller, guests at a dinner party in 1912 are implicated, one-by-one, in the victimization of a young, working-class woman who becomes pregnant out of wedlock. A suspenseful moral drama with clear relevance for the times in which we currently live. Additional info: Actors will be asked to read from the script.

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7 roles

​Arthur BirlingMale50-69 y.o.All ethnicities

Arthur is the patriarch of the Birling family, a wealthy industrialist and the owner of a mill in the English midlands that serves as the primary employer for local, working-class women. He is a prominent member of the local community who, along with his wife and two adult children, lives comfortably in a landed estate.

Sybil BirlingFemale50-69 y.o.All ethnicities

Sybil is of a somewhat higher social class than her husband and conducts herself in a manner that is calculated to remind him and everyone else in her household of that fact. She serves as the Director of the local Women’s Charitable Association.

Sheila BirlingFemale20-34 y.o.All ethnicities

Sheila begins the play as a privileged, self-absorbed and childish young lady but, as the events of the play unfold, she is forced to confront and come to terms with her own moral failures and those of her parents, her brother and her former fiancé.

Gerald CroftMale30-44 y.o.All ethnicities

Gerald is the well-bred, upper-class son of a prominent businessman who begins the play as Sheila Birling’s beloved fiancé but is exposed, as the play’s events unfold, as having repeatedly betrayed Sheila by taking advantage of a young woman who had turned to him for help out of desperation.

Eric BirlingMale20-34 y.o.All ethnicities

Eric begins the play as a cynical, insecure, man-child with a drinking problem but, as the play progresses, he is able to perceive and grasp the full extent of his own culpability and that of his family for a young woman’s tragic demise.

Inspector GooleMale40-54 y.o.All ethnicities

The Inspector is a figure of quiet strength. He arrives unexpectedly at the Birling family’s home, explaining in a measured and somewhat intimidating tone that he’s been tasked with seeking answers to some questions that have arisen during an inquest into the fate of young working-class woman.

EdnaFemale40-64 y.o.All ethnicities

Edna works as a maid in the Birling family’s home. In addition to introducing and overseeing Inspector Goole’s arrival and departure from the home, she serves in the background of numerous scenes as the silent embodiment of the working class, listening carefully to all that transpires as she goes through the motions of carrying out her domestic duties.