Our open play reading for the last play of our 2025/26 season JACK ABSOLUTE FLIES AGAIN by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris will be at 7.45pm in the Studio on Tuesday 24th June. This is your chance to come and find out a bit more about the play and meet the directors, Robin Clark and Natalie Jones.
Our play readings are free to attend and open to everyone, including non-members. Anyone who wishes to read will be given a chance to do so, but you are also very welcome to come and listen to others read. We hope to see you there! At the end, you will be able to borrow a script (which must be returned before or at the audition).
The auditions will be on Friday 5th September and Sunday 24th September in the theatre. You only need attend one of those dates. The audition notice will be available here soon:
https://themiller.net/auditions/
You do not need to be a member to come to a play reading or audition, but if you are cast in a play, you must join (membership is £30 per year).
PERFORMANCE DATES:
The Miller Theatre: 25th June - 4th July (including a matinee on Saturday 27th June)
The Minack Theatre, Cornwall: 27th - 30th July (6 performances)
GETTING HERE
Access to the Studio is around the back of the theatre: This is at the end of Timber Lane, off Timber Hill Road - use the postcode CR3 6LZ or what3words: knee.marker.slides
https://what3words.com/knee.marker.slides
We are a few minutes walk from both Caterham train station (trains from London Bridge/East Croydon run every 30 minutes) and the 407 and 434 bus routes. Parking is available in local side streets.
SYNOPSIS
Summer 1940. After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to rejoin his intrepid young Hurricane squadron. Back on British soil, Jack is shocked to find his old flame, Lydia, on the base. Setting his sights on winning her heart, but with turbulence and hilarity never far away, Jack’s advances quickly turn to anarchy when the young heiress demands to be loved on her own terms.
Sheridan’s classic comedy of manners, The Rivals, is given an uproarious Battle of Britain update by Richard Bean, the award-winning writer of One Man, Two Guvnors, and Oliver Chris.
This will be a pukka, bang-on experience for all involved, on or off stage. No deployment is small as we defend the honour of the Miller Theatre! Simply think The 39 Steps, mixed with One Man Two Guvnors and a dash of The Dam Busters. There will be comedy, high-jinks, dancing and drama.
All personnel assigned to 77 Miller Squadron will be key in the smooth-running double mission, firstly at RAF Caterham and then on our tour of duty at RAF Minack, Cornwall.
We need commitment. We need people willing to get stuck in, no matter what rank and produce a production worthy of many military medals… well, a good round of applause and a well received review will suffice. Bunting may be involved. What-ho!
This is an amateur production.
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