Actors Needed for "Angel Street (Gaslight)" Show
The company is holding auditions for "Angel Street (Gaslight)" Show and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: Patrick Hamilton’s scandalous 1938 psychological thriller. Set in late-19th Century London, this beautifully written, deeply insightful and highly popular play concerns an unscrupulous husband’s attempt to destroy his wife’s faith in her own sanity. The play explores many mature subjects including pathological deceit, avarice, lust, marital infidelity, misogyny, murder, and vengeance. Additional info: Production Dates: March 12. 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28 and 29, 2026
5 roles
English accent. Bella is a cultured woman from a wealthy family. As the play opens, she is in the fifth year of a childless marriage to a man her family deeply disapproves of, a man whom she cares for and strives to satisfy but often struggles to understand. Auditions for the role of Bella may include readings from pages 21-22, 34-38, 50-55, 68-70, and 105-108.
English accent. Sophisticated, articulate and cunning, Jack keeps his own counsel but is reflexively bitter. He’s used his wife’s fortune to acquire a substantial but rather dreary townhouse in London, where he currently resides with Bella and their domestic staff. The script has scenes involving intimacies between Jack and Nancy. Auditions may include readings from pages 21-22, 93-96, and 102-105.
Cockney accent. A live-in parlor maid. She is young, brash, and unashamed about pursuing salacious gratifications. (As noted above, the script calls for intimacies between Nancy and Jack.) See, pages 6-8, 13, 19-20, & 57-66.
English accent. The Head Housekeeper. She deeply cares for Bella and is appalled by what’s unfolding around her. See, pp. 27-28, 81-90.
English accent. He formerly served as the lead detective on an unsolved murder that took place fifteen years earlier in what is now the Manningham’s residence. He remains committed to uncovering the truth. Auditions may include readings from pages 28-31, 41-45, 50-55, and 101-103.
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