PROGRESS Theatre is seeking actors for its latest open air production.
The annual play, which takes place at the Abbey Ruins in Forbury Gardens, is in need of performers for its run in July.
While the open-air production is usually a Shakespeare play, Progress Theatre is instead producing an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.
The company is looking for a wide range of actors for the production, including the lead roles of Pip, Magwitch, and Miss Havisham.
Participants are asked to attend the auditions on either Sunday, March 6, or Thursday, March 10, both held at the Progress Theatre on The Mount.
Progress Theatre is a volunteer theatre company, founded in 1946, and was awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for services to the community in 2020.
It has held their open-air productions since 1994, bringing Shakespeare plays to the Abbey Ruins and Caversham Court Gardens, and is currently the oldest producing theatre in Reading.
Productions were staged at the Abbey Ruins until 2008, when they were moved to Caversham Court Gardens, before returning to the Abbey Ruins in 2018.
Great Expectations will be only the second of the company’s open-air productions not to have been written by William Shakespeare, after Wind in the Willows, staged in 2017.
