Auditions

The Cottage

&

Admissions

Peridot will soon be holding auditions for two productions: The Cottage by Sandy Rustin, and Admissions by Joshua Harmon.

The Cottage

Genre: comedy

Director and contact details:

Steve Saul staul62@yahoo.com.au, 0414 733 268 (leave a message)

Audition dates/times:

Monday 23 & Wednesday 25 February from 7pm

Callbacks 2 March (if required – time TBC)

Season dates:

May 21-31

Audition venue/Rehearsal Venue:

Monash Theatrical Rehearsal & Resource Centre (formerly Fleigner Hall)

Corner Highland & Turnbull Avenues, Oakleigh East

Performance venue: Clayton Community Theatre,

9-15 Cook Street, Clayton (Melways79 B3)

Character summary:

2M 25-50, 2F 25-45, M 30-50, F 20-35

Character detail

SYLVIA, F 25-45, a lovely and rash romantic.

BEAU, M 25-50, perhaps the best looking man in Britain.

MARJORIE, F 25-45, 8 months pregnant, pragmatic and a tad spicy.

CLARKE, M 25-50, a distinguished gent with a lover's spirit.

DIERDRE, F 20-35, an awfully pretty, sometimes wise, nincompoop.

RICHARD, M 30-50, a murderous, yet gentle soul.

Note that age ranges are indicative and that at least equal weight will be given to character pairings and chemistry.

Auditions are open and will take the form of reading selected script portions in pairs or groups of four or more. Accents will not be required during the audition, which will focus on character interactions and grasp of individual characters.

Pre-cast characters:

None

Any other information:

British (RP and working class (for two characters)) accents required.

Synopsis:

Sylvia and Beau are enjoying their annual tryst in an English country cottage, blissfully happy in their moment of togetherness… until their spouses arrive. What happens next may not be quite what they – or you - would expect.

The Cottage is a romantic comedy of manners with a slightly dark twist, in which the standard clichés simply refuse to follow the paths you expect.

Admissions

Genre: Satirical comedy

Director and contact details:

Alison Knight alisonperidot@gmail.com or 0437 380 533

Audition dates/times:

Monday March 16th at 7pm; Wednesday March 18th at 7pm

Season dates:

Aug 13th – 23rd, 2026.

Audition venue/Rehearsal Venue:

Monash Theatrical Rehearsal & Resource Centre (formerly Fleigner Hall)

Corner Highland & Turnbull Avenues, Oakleigh East

Performance venue:

Clayton Community Theatre,

9-15 Cook Street, Clayton (Melways79 B3)

Character summary:

3F: 2 x late 40s - early 50s, 1 x 65+. 2M: 1 x late 40s - early 50s, 1 x 17

Character detail

SHERRI ROSEN-MASON: Late 40s - early 50s, very liberal, secular Jewish woman. Head of Admissions for Hillcrest. (LEAD)

BILL MASON: Late 40s - early 50s, very liberal WASP, Sherri’s husband. Head of Hillcrest. (SUPPORT)

CHARLIE LUTHER MASON: 17, Bill and Sherri’s son, a senior at Hillcrest. (LEAD)

GINNIE PETERS: Late 40s - early 50s, very liberal WASP, home-maker. Her son is Charlie’s best friend. (SUPPORT)

ROBERTA: 65+, white. Works in development at Hillcrest. (SUPPORT)

Ages indicative, but Charlie must look 17-18. East Coast US accents required.

Pre-cast characters

None

Any other information

Bookings by appointment. Please contact director for further information.

Synopsis

Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband, the school’s headmaster, they’ve largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values, with convulsive results. A no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of hypocrisy.

By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical On Behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company