Reality Optional: Auditions Open

Imagine living in a world where reality is constantly shifting – where the past and the present mix with the imagination, and paranoia creeps in.

Based on a play by French writer Florian Zeller, The Father was released as a film in 2020, featuring Anthony Hopkins as an elderly father in the advanced stages of dementia. The film was nominated for six academy awards, as well as best actor (Hopkins) and best supporting actress (Olivia Colman).

The stage play is now coming to Kucom Theatre in Mackay for a two-week season in September, and director Victor Scott is looking for a cast that will do justice to this intriguing and challenging piece of theatre.

Scott, whose directing credits for Kucom include When the Rain Stops Falling (2021) and Things I Know To Be True (2023), will be holding auditions for The Father on Sunday I June, starting at 2pm. Audition packs are now available for download: https://bit.ly/4mlXlz3.

And, in the meantime...

Bob’s Your Auntie

Don’t forget to book your seats for Bob’s Your Auntie, a deliciously politically incorrect farce directed by Maureen Coleman which opens on Thursday 12 June for a two-week season. The play features some of Kucom’s favourite performers, including Gordon Lowe, Paul Vander Loos, Dennis Rozekrans and Michael Brennan, as well as some exciting new faces: Anzjuli Venter, Kai Hulme-Moir, Anthony Heron, Ross MacDonald, and Greccia Ipenza.

Bookings for Bob’s Your Auntie have been open for some time, but there are still some good seats available if you’re quick. Just visit the Humanitix bookings website: https://events.humanitix.com/bob-s-your-auntie

For more information about these and other events coming to Kucom Theatre, visit the Kucom website www.kucom.org.au or the Kucom Facebook page.

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