BENDIGO THEATRE COMPANY Drama
Production
Inheritance by Hannie Rayson
To be staged in the Old Fire Station at The Capital August
2009
Thursday 27, Friday 28 Saturday 29 at 8.00pm, and Sunday
30, at 2.00pm
Set in the Mallee district in Victoria, the Myrtle twins, Dibs Hamilton
and Girlie Delany, are turning 80. As the family gathers to celebrate,
speculation grows as to who will be the one to inherit the family property,
Allandale when the aging Farley Hamilton is gone.
From Hannie Rayson (Life After George
and Hotel Sorrento) comes this powerful new drama, where duty contends with
freedom, and the differences of race, gender and generation must be reconciled
before claims on Allandale, and its families, may be
settle.
Inheritance is
on the 2009 VCE syllabus list.
INFORMATION
and AUDITION AFTERNOON
31 May,
BTC ART’S
Director
…
John Murray
Information session commences
at
12.00pm
Auditions
(All auditions
individual) follow at 1.00pm BTC ART’S
Call
backs (if required) Monday 1st
June 7.00pm
Cast Age 15 –
60+
CHARACTERS
Please note.
You do not have to be in your 80’s to audition for the character aged
80+
THE
DIBS HAMILTON, aged 80
FARLEY HAMILTON, aged 83, husband of
Dibs
WILLIAM
HAMILTON, aged 52, eldest son
JULIA
HAMILTON, aged 44,
daughter
FELIX
HAMILTON-GRAY, aged 19, Julia’s
son
NUGGET
HAMILTON, aged 38, adopted Aboriginal
son
THE
DELANEYS
GIRLIE DELANEY, aged 80, Dibs’ twin
sister
LYLE DELANEY,
aged 48, son of Girlie,
farmer
MAUREEN DELANEY, aged 55, Lyle’s
wife
ASHLEIGH
DELANEY, aged 16, daughter of
Lyle and Maureen
BRIANNA DELANEY, aged 15, her
sister
CHARACTERS
FROM THE PAST
NORM MYRTLE
(1890-1934), father of Dibs and Girlie
YOUNG
GIRLIE
YOUNG
DIBS
WORMIE
MCCALLUM (1915-1980), stockman
LUCKY JOE
DELANEY (1920-1989), Girlie’s husband
LOFTY
BLAKE
Rehearsal for all cast start
on Sunday
7th June 2009 2.00pm – 6.00pm at BTC Arts Shed
Then every Tuesday
7.30pm – 10.00pm and every Sunday 2.00pm – 6.00pm.
Some extra brief rehearsals may be
called at a mutually agreed time between required cast and
director.
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