AUDITIONS - Frankie Builds Androids
2025-06-09 18:00 - 2025-06-14 20:00 UTC | The Playhouse, 198 Church Street, Timaru, 7910, New Zealand
FRANKIE BUILDS ANDROIDS is presented through special arrangement with Beat by Beat Press (bbbpress.com)
Workshops – Monday 9th June & Wednesday 11th June – 6pm
Auditons – Saturday 14th June (times to be confirmed)
Audition packs available – scdljuniorsprimary@gmail.com
Jess Diamond, Director; Emily Rentoul, Musical Director; and Kat Thompson, Choreographer.

Varied cast roles available.
Ages 8 – 12
Come along to one of our workshops to see if this is for you. We welcome new and experienced performers.

Meet Frankie, a brilliant but socially awkward student who can’t seem to connect with her classmates. When a group project goes awry, Frankie devises an unconventional solution: she replaces all her classmates with android replicas, each programmed to correct their flaws. What follows is a hilarious and unexpected string of events that challenges Frankie’s ideas of belonging and perfection.

Featuring a modern synth-pop score, this sci-fi musical comedy explores the ways we build narratives around one another and how a community where everyone is exactly the same is not a community at all.
CHARACTERS

FRANKIE: A socially awkward genius. Struggles to make friends, except for the friends that she literally makes.
AVERY: Frankie’s best friend. Very smart, more socially confident than Frankie. Wants to explore new interests.
“The Pointers”: The robots Frankie built when she was younger. Her sidekicks.
1.0: Very excitable.
2.0: Very nervous.
3.0: Very wise.
Student Council:
SAWYER: Running for Student Council President. Very precise and punctual.
EMERSON: Running for Student Council President. Willing to do whatever he needs to in order to succeed.
ASHER: Running for Student Council Vice President as Emerson’s running-mate. Rarely gets a word in.
Improv Club:
FINN: Captain of the improv club. Happy to point out that improv takes a LOT of hard work.
POLLY: Firmly believes improv is NOT a contact sport.
KAI: As an android, she sings about how her “dancing is shoddy.”
CAM: Extremely agreeable (“Yeah, yeah, yeah!”).
ASPEN: As an android, he sings about auditioning for a role, but “lacking soul.”
BRYN: More than happy to explain the #1 rule of improv club (“yes, and”). IMPROV ENSEMBLE: Additional members of the improv club.
Ultimate Frisbee Club (UFC):
TURBINE: Captain. Also one of the leaders of the android revolution. Always down to teach others a thing or two about ultimate frisbee.
CYCLONE: UFC Teammate. One of the leaders of the android revolution. His favorite word is “word.”
STORM: UFC Teammate. One of the leaders of the android revolution. Believes any issue can be solved by “tossing it out.”
GALE: UFC Teammate. Offended that anyone would consider ultimate frisbee “silly.”
ZEPHYR: UFC Teammate. Offended that anyone would call ultimate frisbee “a game.”
TEMPEST: UFC Teammate. Offended that anyone would confuse ultimate frisbee with disc golf.
UFC ENSEMBLE: Additional members of the ultimate frisbee club.
Students:
DEVON: A student who hasn’t chosen a particular club. Anxious about participating in school dances.
TREY: A student who hasn’t chosen a particular club. Mistakes Devon for Frankie.
STUDENT ENSEMBLE: Members of the student ensemble in school. Also play COLLEGE STUDENTS in Frankie’s imagination.

AUDITION FOR TOM DICK & HARRY
2025-09-28 19:00 - 21:00
AUDITION FOR OUR END OF YEAR SHOW – Sunday 28th September 7pm 2025.

Playhouse Productions present an Amateur Community Theatre Production of Tom, Dick and Harry. A farce by Ray and Michael Cooney.

Tom and Linda are nervously waiting their final inspection by the head of the adoption agency. Unfortunately Dick returns from a smuggling expedition to France with brandy, cigarettes and two illegal refugees. Hospital porter Harry embarks on an ambitious plan to reduce the price on a house Tom and Linda want to buy, which involves body parts stolen from the mortuary…..
A suspicious policeman, the formidable Mrs Potter and Andreas discovers the illegal brandy….
With brothers like these, Tom needs no enemies!

CAST:
Tom Kerwood. Late 20s/30s likeable, mature older brother
Linda, Late 20s/30s. Bright and sparky
Dick Kerwood 20s/30s. Lovable rogue
Harry Kerwood 20s30s. A genius but thick!
Katerina. Kosovan. Late 20s/30s. Confident but dangerous.
Andreas. Katerina’s Kosovan grandad. In his later years.
Constable Downs. Police Officer. Any age relevant to his job.
Mrs Potter. Formidable woman. 30s to 50s.
Boris. East- European 30s-40s. Dangerous.

REHEARSALS:
Tuesday, Thursday and Sundays. 7 to 9/9.30

We’re looking for quick-thinking, fit performers for the three brothers and cast with great comedic timing.
Any questions to TJ holly.tj2020@gmail.com or 021 189 2099.
