Foolish Wit Theatre is thrilled to announce auditions for our first season of 2024.

Season Dates: 5th to 14th July 2024
This is a profit-share production
Directed by Mags Delaney-Moffatt

To express your interest visit https://bit.ly/teechers-auditions

Highly physical, hugely funny, deceptively radical, mixing dance and spoken word, Teechers – Leavers ’22 is alive and in your face.

The Characters

SALTY
Bright and fresh faced but dirty in appearance
Plays nine other characters – a variety of adults and students
Male 

GAIL
Loud mouthed, bossy but enthusiastic and attractive
Plays ten other characters – a variety of adults and students
Female

HOBBY
Tough and physically intimidating – involved with the play despite herself
Plays 2 other roles both teachers
Female identifying

We’re looking for three talented actors who can play multiple roles – both as other students and teachers whilst keeping at the heart the main characters of Salty, Gail and Hobby.

Each actor will be playing characters between 18 and 60 with just their physicality and some minor props to portray this.   You’ll need to be good at learning lines, good with physical comedy and able to play more than one character convincingly.

The Story

Salty, Gail and Hobby are departing Whitewall College for uncertain futures in uncertain times. Burn out, pregnancies, stress, affairs, depression; no-one is exempt, from the students, and security staff, to the business-minded Principal. How much more can a system take?

Originally written in 1987, thirty-five years later John Godber updates his script with exam chaos, tech poverty, isolation, absenteeism and lost school hours putting the state system under more pressure than ever before.

The Season

Teechers – Leavers ’22 is presented by Foolish Wit Theatre, a community theatre company with a modest profit-share model.

Auditions will take place on Saturday, 20 April 2024 in Milford.

Rehearsals will be on Thursday evenings from 7:00 pm to 9:00pm and Sunday afternoons from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Takapuna, starting in May.

The performance season runs from Friday 5th July to Sunday 14th July at The PumpHouse Theatre’s Coal Bunker Studio.

Express Your Interest

Visit https://bit.ly/teechers-auditions and complete the form.