AUDITIONS – A Taste of Honey

Saturday 17 February, 2pm    &     Sunday 18 February, 2pm
at The Gate Theatre Torbay  CLICK FOR MAP

Set in Salford England 1960s: Jo, a seventeen-year-old working class girl, and her mother, Helen, who is presented as crude and sexually indiscriminate. Helen leaves Jo alone in their new flat after she begins a relationship with her rich lover, Peter. At the same time Jo begins a romantic relationship with Jimmy, a black sailor. He proposes marriage but then goes to sea, leaving Jo pregnant and alone. She finds lodgings with a homosexual acquaintance, Geoffrey, who assumes the role of surrogate father. Helen returns after leaving her lover and the future of Jo’s new home is put into question.

Helen        Female, mid to late forties
Jo                Female, late teens or early twenties
Peter         Male, mid to late thirties
Jimmy      Male, twenties, dark-skinned
Geoffrey  Male, early twenties to mid 30s

Accents:

Helen and Jo:  preferably northern English (Manchester)
Peter and Geoffrey:  English
Jimmy:  lower class British or American

Production Dates:

18 May to 2 June 2018