With over 70 women sending in CVs, it was a mammoth task to get it down to an auditionable number of people. There are women who wouldn't necessarily be right for the parts, but we'd definitely like to keep in touch with for future projects.
So, after about a gallon of coffee and a lot of debate, we finally had 20 performers to audition for the 4 parts.
The Old Market Theatre kindly offered us a space, and we met the women in pairs, where they all read a monologue of their choice, as well as a duologue from the script.
It was amazing to hear the script come to life. To see the characters we'd been living with for weeks as proper people.
We slept on the decision and the following day, Alice and I spoke first thing about our choices. Fortunately we were both on the same page, and immediately agreed on our four women. We are so excited about starting to work with them.
They are...
Gilly Daniels playing Elsie
Moir Leslie playing Gilly (older)
Gabriella Schmidt playing Frankie and Gilly (younger)
Emily Spetch playing Maya and Lizzie.
