Auditions are open for InPlayers’ first production of season 2024-2025: Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett®, adapted by Stephen Briggs.
This play is directed by Rae Gerritsen.
In Wyrd Sisters, we are transported to the Discworld®, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on the shell of a giant turtle. In this fantastical setting, we follow the stories of three witches, Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick, as they navigate through a world filled with magic, politics, and a generous dose of humor.
The plot is heavily inspired by Shakespeare's Macbeth and Hamlet. We are introduced to the kingdom of Lancre, where the rightful king has been murdered by his cousin, Duke Felmet, who has now ascended the throne. The three witches, who are not just observers but active participants in the events, decide to take matters into their own hands and restore the rightful king to the throne.
We encourage all aspiring actors of 18 and above, of all ethnicities, abilities and gender identities to sign up to audition for the characters they’d like to portray.
Please fill out and submit the audition form below before 20 September 2024.
Audition Date: 28 September 2024
Audition Location: to be announced, Amsterdam
Call Back Date: 29 September 2024
Call Back Location: to be announced, Amsterdam
Performances Dates:
Thursday, 30 January 2025
Friday, 31 January 2025
Saturday, 1 February 2025
Sunday, 2 February 2025
Performance Location: Polanentheater, Polanenstraat 174, 1013WC, Amsterdam
Director: Rae Gerritsen.
Rae studied Stage Management at London Centre for Theatre Studies and make-up and special effects for stage and film at Brushstroke (Shepperton Studios). After completing her studies, Rae worked for many different theatre productions in London and then in Yorkshire, in the UK. In 2008 Rae started her own Events Management company organising musical events and assisting with promoting local charities. Moving to Amsterdam in August 2022 she immediately joined InPlayers and has been involved in all their productions since then. Having always had an interest in directing, Rae is thrilled to be directing her first full length play with the support of InPlayers.
Characters:
| Esmerelda ‘Granny’ Weatherwax | The Discworld® witches don’t have leaders, but Granny Weatherwax is the most highly regarded and steely of the leaders they don’t have. She regards the whole kingdom, and anywhere else she happens to be, as her rightful domain. She is a formidable character with every necessary attribute for the classical ‘bad witch’ - a quick temper, a competitive, selfish, and ambitious nature, a sharp tongue, an unshakeable conviction of her own moral superiority, and some considerable mental and occult powers. She is old, but still handsome and reasonably youthful in appearance - she has perfect skin, a source of irritation: her complexion has resisted every one of her attempts to gain some warts. | |
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| Gytha ‘Nanny’ Ogg | Mother of 15 and brewer of lethally strong cider. She has been formally married 3 times, but they are all dead now. Contrary to the rules of modern witchcraft, Nanny Ogg now lives in quite a modern cottage in town between 2 of her sons’ houses. She likes to have her family around her in case of an emergency, like when she needs a cup of tea or the floor washed. She is a good-natured woman, with a crinkled face, thighs that could crack coconuts, and a large and experienced bosom. She smokes a pipe, and wears heavy, lace-up boots. She loves a drop or twenty of liquor, and enjoys singing loud songs like, ‘A Wizard’s Staff has a Knob on the End’. | |
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| Magrat Garlick | Magrat is the youngest witch of the coven. Magrat has an open mind, as open as a field, as open as the sky. A lot of what she believes has the word ‘folk’ in it somewhere (folk wisdom, folk dance, folk medicine, folk song), as if ‘folk’ were other than the mundane people she sees every day. She is, however, more practical than most people believe who see no further than her vague smile, green silk dress, and collection of cheap occult jewelry. Although she has a black cloak lined with red silk, she hardly ever wears a pointy hat - she’s just not a pointy hat kind of person. | |
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| Verence | A ghost, late King of Lancre. He was cruel and power-hungry, but in a regal, kingly way. Now he’s annoyed and has a score to settle. | |
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| Leonal Felmet | Duke, then King of Lancre. Cruel and power-hungry, in a mad way. He gets progressively madder and crueler. | |
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| Lady Felmet | Leonal’s wife. Calculating, power-hungry, cruel. The brains of the operation. | |
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| Vitoller | The kind actor-manager leader of a traveling group of players, who agrees to raise an abandoned baby as his own. | |
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| Mrs Vitoller | Vitoller’s kind and caring wife. | |
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| Verence The Fool | A youngish jester, following his father’s footsteps in the respected trade of being a fool, but his heart’s not in it. Underneath all his miserable foolery, he is intelligent and meant for greater things. | |
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| Tomjon | A much admired, extremely talented youngish actor, with the gift of language, and the ability to portray anyone or anything to perfection. Vitoller’s son. | |
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| Hwel | A playwright. He is a genius with words and story, and is a slave to his words. He is kind, loyal to the Vitollers, and keeps a caring eye on Tomjon. | |
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| Sergeant and Guards | Bumbling, with a strong sense of self-importance. If situations get too messy, they’d rather duck out for a cigarette. | |
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| Demon | Impatient, cunning, and a stickler for the rules. And, well, demonic. | |
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| Chamberlain | All a little more on the bumbling side than the brilliant one. | |
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| Ensemble roles | Robbers, Peasants, Players, Guests | |
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Like all InPlayers’ productions, this is an amateur stage show, meaning that neither the cast nor crew members are compensated for their work.
We’re also looking to strengthen the team that will produce this play. Click here to see how you can help!