Auditions for our Summer production will be held 7.30pm Tuesday 3 and Thursday 5 March, at the Wiltshire Music Centre, and are open to all-comers.
‘Joseph’ is about to hit the stage, but at Bradfordians’ towers there’s no rest for the wicked, and we are busy preparing auditions for our next exciting show – ‘Jamaica Inn’ at the Tithe Barn – Daphne du Maurier’s gothic tale of Cornish smugglers.
There is no need to prepare anything to audition, but if you would like a copy of the script, please email the director Cally Smart cally@countrygate.co.uk.
Production dates are Tuesday 30 June to Saturday 4 July 2020.
The play is set in and around Jamaica Inn, on Bodmin Moor, and on the North Coast of Cornwall, at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century. Character details can be found below
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Mary Yellan, 18 -25, spirited, uncompromising, resourceful, loyal, 300 lines
Joss Merlyn, her uncle, landlord of Jamaica Inn 35-50, violent, predatory, haunted, 280 lines
Patience, his wife, Mary’s aunt 30-45, anxious, vulnerable, forgiving, a shadow of her former self, 90 lines
Jem Merlyn, his brother, a horse-thief 25-35, charming, blunt, canny, enigmatic, 180 lines
Reverend Francis Davey, vicar of Altarnun 40s, charismatic, calm, unsettling, 220 lines
Squire Bassat, local squire, 40-60, law-abiding and Mary’s rescuer, 50 lines
Harry, a pedlar, confident, lawless, 30 lines
Richards, Bassat’s groom, 10 lines
A Coachman, friendly, concerned, 24 lines
Edwards, a lawyer-clerk, former associate of Joss Merlyn, 10 lines
Knowles, a man of wealth, 40 -50, 15 lines
Hannah, Rev Davey’s housekeeper, 13 lines
Mrs Bassat, the squires’s wife, 30-50, 13 lines
Smugglers and Members of the Wreckers’ Gang , a rum bunch of reprobates and outcasts
