

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Heartbreak Choir Auditions
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 29 Mar, 2026 at 01:00 am – Sun, 29 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 am (+11:00)
- **Event Description**: EVENT DETAILS
Auditions for The Heartbreak Choir, written by Aiden Fennessy
Sunday 29th March 11am-3:30pm
Location Pembroke Primary School, 25 Pembroke Rd, Mooroolbark

Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/DKDIW

PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Justin Cleaver
Choir Master: Julia Roper

Upon booking an audition time slot, you will receive an audition pack and a copy of the script. 
The audition pack will outline what you need to prepare for the audition.

Audition Preparation: Please prepare the audition pieces and be prepared to sight read another scene. Unless auditioning for Beau, please also prepare a 16 bar (approximately 30 seconds) excerpt from a contemporary (pop) song of your choice, sung a cappella (unaccompanied).

CONTACT
Please contact the director Justin Cleaver on email pep.productions06@gmail.com if you have any queries.

SYNOPSIS
In the old CFA hall on the outskirts of town, a small group of locals come together to sing, and to connect. Aseni, Barbara, Mack, Savannah and Totty have splintered from their original choir on a matter of principle and are intent on forging their own path. With their latest recruit Peter along for the ride, they have a new name, a space to rehearse in and a public debut booked. All they need now is to right the wrongs of the past … and to find a song that pairs perfectly with the local winery’s Sangiovese. This warm, funny and moving play takes us on a journey through heartbreak and reconnection through the power of music, friendship, and community. 

The Heartbreak Choir is in the realist style, with authentic characters and relationships. Set in contemporary, rural Australia, actors will need to have Australian accents. The character of Aseni is from Zimbabwe and speaks English with an accent. Actors will need to have good comic timing and be able to call upon depth of emotion. All actors, except for Beau, sing contemporary songs a cappella and hold harmonies.

ROLES
Barbara: 
Stage Age:  60-70
The Choir Leader. She has grace, charm and warmth in abundance. A faded elegance. A psychologist, she moved from the city to the town ten years ago with her psychologist husband to run a holistic retreat on the outskirts of town for troubled souls seeking solace. The decision to move was in itself a retreat from the pressures of her city practice, which was becoming increasingly overwhelming. Her husband passed away five years ago from cancer. They had no children. She wears loose Tibetan-inspired clothes, robes etc. Very colourful and flowing. The choir is her baby. She aspires to the transformative capacity of music and its ability to heal. Her only sister, Helen, lives in the city and is dying of cancer. She’s spent her life on the receiving end of life’s psychological damage, helping patients make sense of their lives. She speaks in an educated, white-collar professional manner.

Mack:
Stage Age: 50-60
A choir member for four years. Mack is a strong, bustling countrywoman. She and her husband run a herb farm after years of operating a much larger sheep property. She has three older boys and one girl, Savannah. Mack has some mild anxiety issues for which she takes medication. She is Assistant Coach of the local Under- Elevens footy team. She gets about in pragmatic farm garb- gumboots, woollen men’s socks. Keeping busy is good for her.

Savannah:
Stage Age: 20-25
Mack’s daughter. There is something pensive about her, mystical. She hides behind her hair and thick rimmed glasses. She is a selective mute, though her condition has improved since finishing school. She communicates her intentions physically very clearly. She talks openly to her mother and to Barbara and sings like an angel and her deficit allows her to watch everything like a hawk. She is the eyes and ears of the room. She has a loud laugh. Mack is very protective of her and needs to be. Savannah wears long black, gothic, Victorian-style dresses.

Aseni:
Stage Age: 30-38
Eight months pregnant. She and her family moved here from Zimbabwe twelve months ago. Her English is accented but very good. She was born into a wealthy family and had servants attend her other two children but now works in the deli at the local IGA. She is a qualified doctor, but is yet to practice in this country. Her husband is a local doctor, working here to achieve his Australian certificate of practice. She’s as strong as an ox. She is a devout Christian. She is a breath of fresh air. She wears long colourful dresses, traditional headscarf and sandals.

Totty:
Stage Age: 50-60
Founding choir member. A resolutely single, frighteningly organised woman. She still plays competitive netball on Tuesdays and is chair of the local historical society along with myriad other community and personal activities. She is small, compact and rarely still. An only child, she lives alone in a grand homestead with the proceeds from her parents’ vast estate (her father, a farm mechanic with a successful dealership, bought the rights to a massive American franchise in the mid-seventies and made a fortune). Although independently wealthy she walks and talks like a bogan thoroughbred and has no interest in money at all. Some say she’s worth $100 million but that’s just talk. She likes to get about in hi-vis gear for no obvious reason. She has twenty-seven cats, four dogs and two llamas, both called Bob. She is almost totally fearless

Peter:
Stage Age: 40-50
(Baritone) Local policeman. He was born and raised in the town. His wife, Caro, was a founding member of the choir. She took her own life six weeks ago. He is now raising two teenage boys alone. He is all but lost. He’s been the senior policeman in this town for 15 years.

Beau:
Stage Age: 16
Peter’s youngest son. A good kid but troubled. He has his mother’s eyes. His childhood has been dominated by his mother’s depression and mania. He has learnt to just let it all slide past him. He’s a boy in a man’s body. He wears an anonymous beanie, a hoodie and black jeans. Fingernails bitten to the quick. He’s still in shock.

DATES AND LOCATIONS
First read through 1st April 7:30 to 10pm
Rehearsals: Sunday 10am-4pm and Wednesday evenings from 5th April to 4th June.
Rehearsal location: 
Wednesday Evenings: Mt Dandenong Region Scout Centre, 117 Heathmont Road, Heathmont 
Sundays: Pembroke Primary School, 25 Pembroke Rd, Mooroolbark

Prod week: 7th – 10th June
Performances: 12th – 21st June (7 Performances)
Performance location: – Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster VIC 3108.

Please note that this an amateur production and therefore no remuneration is available. All auditionees must be 18 or over at the time of auditions.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/mooroolbark/the-heartbreak-choir-auditions/200029789427133
- **Event Categories**: Music, Entertainment, Art, Theatre, Nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 31

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Mooroolbark
- **state**: VI
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Pembroke Primary School Mooroolbark Vic
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- **full address**: Pembroke Primary School Mooroolbark Vic, Pembroke Primary School, Pembroke Rd, Mooroolbark VIC 3138, Australia, Mooroolbark

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- **organizer**: PEP Productions (https://allevents.in/org/pep-productions/1506453)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 29 Mar, 2026 at 01:00 am (+11:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Pembroke Primary School Mooroolbark Vic, Pembroke Primary School, Pembroke Rd, Mooroolbark VIC 3138, Australia, Mooroolbark
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** PEP Productions
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Music, Entertainment, Art, Theatre, Nonprofit
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