The Cottage

Auditions for The Cottage will be held at 7:00 pm on Monday and Tuesday September 7-8. If needed, callbacks will be that Wednesday September 9.

Video auditions will be accepted for this production.

• Ensure your entire body is in frame.
• State your name and the role or roles you’d like to be considered for.
• Have someone read the other character(s) in the scene off camera.
• Complete the audition intake form HERE.
• Send video(s) to thecottage.masc@gmail.com.
• Video auditions must be submitted before Sunday September 6.

Sylvia and Beau find themselves in an English countryside cottage for their yearly rendezvous, and Sylvia knows this time it will be the beginning of their new life together. But when Beau demurs on a shared future, and their spouses arrive at the cottage, she realizes that this home-away-from-home is a refuge for determining a new path forward and decides to expose her love affair to her husband and her lover’s wife. With a tip of the hat to Noël Coward and sex comedies of the past, The Cottage offers a perfect showcase for six actors with endless laughs, hilarious twists, daring physical comedy and a happy ending for lovers everywhere. The true meaning of fate, identity and marriage are called into question as a surprising, hilarious web of secrets unravels in this ridiculous, potentially murderous, uncharacteristically feminist 1923 British tale of sex, betrayal and love.

The Cottage premiered on Broadway at the Hayes Theater on July 24, 2023 after first being produced by Astoria Performing Arts Center in 2013. The Broadway cast included Eric McCormack as Beau and Laura Bell Bundy as Sylvia.

CHARACTERS
SYLVIA – A lovely and rash romantic, female-presenting, 20s-40s
BEAU – Perhaps the best-looking man in Britain, male-presenting, 20s-40s
MARJORIE – Eight months pregnant, pragmatic and a tad spicy, female-presenting, 20s-40s
CLARKE – A distinguished gent with a lover’s spirit, male-presenting, 20s-40s
DIERDRE  – An awfully pretty, sometimes wise nincompoop, female-presenting, 20s-30s
RICHARD – A murderous yet gentle soul, male-presenting, 20s-40s

This production will strive to support a cast and crew of diverse talent. This diversity includes, but is not limited to, gender identities, ethnic and racial backgrounds, sexual orientations, body types, ages and ability.

Standard British dialect will be required for all characters.
The character of Deirdre may be asked to also perform in a “lower-class” British dialect, perhaps cockney.

SCHEDULE

The first rehearsal and read-through will be on Monday Sept. 14 at 6:30 pm.
Rehearsals will continue each week on Sundays at 2:00 m as well as Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursday at 6:30 pm.
There will also be a Tuesday night dress rehearsal during the final (tech) week.

All rehearsals and performances will be at the Capitol Theatre in Waterloo, IL. Schedule subject to change as needed.