We’re incredibly excited to officially reveal our next show, the hilarious play, Breezeblock Park which we’ll perform in Spring 2025.
Details
- Director: Jim Bower
- 30 April – 3 May
- Location TBA
What’s Breezeblock Park about?
Written by Willy Russell (the writer of Educating Rita and Blood Brothers), Breezeblock Park is a comedy set in the 1970s. Superior council house dwellers Betty, Reeny, Vera, and their men regard themselves as a close-knit family team despite their concealed jealousies and occasional recriminations. When Betty’s daughter Sandra announces she is pregnant and intends to live unmarried with her student lover, the news explodes like an atom bomb.
When Are Auditions?
Open auditions occur on Tuesday 14 and Thursday 16 January 2025 at Deighton Gates Primary School (LS22 7XL). We will host an open evening where you can meet the group and the Director on Tuesday 7 January in the same location. We’ll also be reading through the script and learning more about the characters.
We hope to see plenty of people at the auditions, please get in touch if you want to know more, receive audition pieces, and express your interest. Drop us an email: wetherbymtg@yahoo.co.uk.
Cast
Please get in touch if you would like a copy of the audition script for any character you’re interested in.
- Betty – Formidable middle-aged working class woman. Very competitive with Reeny.
- Syd – Betty’s somewhat henpecked husband. Has a mystery ailment.
- Reeny – Betty’s sister and nemesis. Similar character. “The two women cancel each other out”.
- Ted – Reeny’s husband. Is under the illusion he is intelligent. Obsessed with his car.
- John – Reeny and Ted’s son, 18-25 – has less to say than other characters. Is “On tablets” and has learned to agree with his parents, but rebels in the end.
- Sandra – Betty and Syd’s daughter, 18-25 – a working class girl who aspires to escape to a better world, hence her student boyfriend. Drops pregnancy bombshell.
- Tim – Sandra’s boyfriend. Student. Comes from a different world to all three families. Nice lad. Ultimately overwhelmed by what he’s got himself into.
- Tommy – Betty’s brother. Drinks a lot. Bit of a lad.
- Vera – Tommy’s wife. A bit dim. Tends to have well-timed one-liners rather than speeches.