Auditions
The audition details for forthcoming productions are shown here.
We hold Open Auditions for all plays and, if necessary, principal roles in our annual pantomime. However, any non-member chosen for a role is required to become a full acting member of the Burgess Hill Theatre Club to appear on stage in the production. Patron Membership is not acceptable for acting roles. You will be expected to join during the first rehearsal.
Please ensure that you will be available for the rehearsal period and the stated production dates before auditioning.
Location
Auditions are held at the Burgess Hill Theatre, 98 Church Walk, Burgess Hill. RH15 9AS
Autumn Production - 2025
Burgess Hill Fringe 2025
Fringe Festival of One Act Plays
Directors: Chris Ball, Lynda Brown,
Richard Harvey, Natasha Graves
Dates: 17 & 18 and 24 & 25 October (7.30pm)
Venue: Burgess Hill Theatre Club
We are looking to cast 22 adults and recruit 4 backstage teams to put on this ambitious event. We’re asking all of our members to roll up their sleeves and get involved.
The Fringe is the perfect time to try something new – whether it is acting, stage management, sourcing props and costumes, being a prompt, helping with hair and makeup, running box office, designing posters, or assisting with lighting and sound.
Each production is led by a first-time director for the Club as part of our skills development programme. Don’t worry if you don’t have experience. The point of the Fringe is to develop new talent for the Club.
Curious? Come to the read throughs to find out more.
Read throughs
Saturday 12 July from 1pm
Auditions
Open auditions.
No booking necessary. Just show up. Non-members are welcome to audition but must join the Club if offered a part. You must attend one audition but are welcome to attend more.
Saturday 19 July from 1pm
You don’t have to be a member to audition, but you will need to join the Club if you are offered a part. Same goes for backstage roles (stage manager, hair/make up; prompt; lighting/sound). Annual Membership is £30.
If you are offered a role, we usually rehearse up to twice a week with some additional sessions the week before the show.
More about the Plays
Handbagged by Moira Buffini
Directed by Chris Ball.
Cast 4f, 2m.
The monarch. Her most powerful subject. Two women meet once a week for eleven years.
One believes there is no such thing as society. The other has vowed to serve it. Moira Buffini's wickedly funny hit comedy imagines what the world's most powerful women, Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II, talked about behind closed palace doors.
Lockdown in Little Grimley by David Tristram,
Directed by Lynda Brown.
Cast 2f, 2m.
In a time of lockdown, the Chairman Gordon calls an emergency meeting, complete with social distancing, to discuss his idea for their next production when restrictions ease - a touching love story set in a hospital, with all profits destined for the NHS. But based on their previous efforts, will the NHS actually end up worse off?
Aria da Capo by Edna St Vincent Millay,
Directed by Richard Harvey.
Cast 1f, 4m.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Millay's best and most famous work. A true masterpiece -- beautiful, delicate and poetic. An atmosphere of naive simplicity characterizes the play and throws into relief its deft allegory: the folly of man's hatreds and jealousies and the thoughtlessness which makes them possible.
At the prompting of a tragic muse, two shepherds interrupt a harlequinade, innocently kill each other, and the harlequinade continues unaffected. An intensely effective play of universal appeal.
Commuters by Natasha Graves,
Directed by Natasha Graves.
Cast 2 F, 3 M, 2 M/F
Have you ever looked at those around you on your morning commute and wondered just what is going on inside their heads? Commuters invites you to step into the minds of 6 commuters and a ticket inspector, revealing their deepest hopes and exposing their most vulnerable truths. This witty and thought-provoking piece is set to debut at Burgess Hill Fringe 2025.
