BLACKADDER the third
Director: Callon Leam
Assistant Director: Helen Brown
Take a step back in time to the Victorian era and enjoy three episodes from the all-time classic, British sitcom: Blackadder.
Follow Edmund Blackadder, butler to the brainless and over confident Prince Regent, alongside his pitiful and disgusting dogs body, Baldrick, in a series of chaotic and hilarious events. Edmund attempts to rescue a French Aristocrat from the local cafe, hires a couple of melodramatic actors to give the Prince elocution lessons and finds a way to save the Prince from dying in a duel against Britain’s finest military commander.
A funny and fast paced comedy portraying the history we could have had, if we were lucky.
Audition date: 17th September 2024
7pm at 8 Attwood Way, Rockingham.
For further information, please contact Callon on 0448 717 351
Main Characters (In all 3 Episodes)
Edmund Blackadder / Cousin McAdder: 30 – 40yo.
Upper middle-class butler to the idiot Prince Regent. He is cynical, cunning and mean to everyone.
Prince George: 20 – 30yo.
The Prince Regent of Wales. A complete fool, easily led and relies heavily on Blackadder to get through even the simplest of tasks.
Baldrick: 20 – 40yo.
Blackadder’s dogs body. A filthy, lower-class servant who’s even more naïve and simple-minded than the Prince.
Mrs. Miggins: 40 – 50yo.
Owner of the local café. Always wanting to keep up to the local social trends. Full of energy and always in high spirits.
Minor Characters (1 Episode only)
Smedley / Madam Guillotine: 20 – 30yo.
Sidekick of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Actor needs to play three parts: an upper-class toff, a mad and sadistic French female torturer and an heroic saviour.
Topper / Le Comte de Frou Frou: 20 – 30yo.
The Scarlet Pimpernel. Actor needs to play three parts: an upper-class toff, a French Aristocrat and an heroic saviour.
Frenchman / Ambassador: 20 – 30yo.
An evil French revolutionary who has a particular hatred for French Aristocrats and the British.
David Keanrick: 40 – 50yo.
Over-the-top, pompous, superstitious actor.
Enoch Mossop: 40 – 50yo.
Over-the-top, pompous, superstitious actor.
Anarchist: 20-30yo.
Very short role. Runs on stage carrying a lit bomb, makes an activist speech then throws the bomb to the Prince.
Duke of Wellington: 40 – 50yo.
Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe. Military man, loud, brash and brutal.
King of England: 50 – 60yo.
Very short role. Prince George’s father. German, mad, doesn’t recognise his own son.
All roles except for Mrs. Miggins are male. Ages are preferable but not fixed: willing to be flexible. Some of the minor roles may need to be played by the same actors if we are short.