Audition for stage show
Children are encouraged to audition for KickstArt's next production, Winnie the Pooh.
KICKSTART invites children to audition for Winnie the Pooh on Saturday, 27 February at The Playhouse workshops/studios in Ramsay Road, Mayville, from 10am sharp.
Children must be between the ages of nine and 13. They should present a short acting monologue or poem and a song with backing tracks on a CD. They should wear comfortable clothes and bring refreshments. KickstArt is looking for a Christopher Robin and several of Rabbit’s friends and relations. No need to make an appointment – just arrive and put your names on a list.
The performance will be over the July school holidays and is a colourful and faithful adaptation of AA Milne’s classic children’s story. Winnie the Pooh stars Nhlakanipho Manqele as the much-beloved bear and Belinda Henwood as his nervous side-kick, Piglet. Others in the cast include Liesl Coppin as bossy but motherly Kanga, and Luca Tarboton (Annie in KickstArt’s 2014 production of Annie) as her mischievous off-spring, Roo. Bryan Hiles plays Tigger, Roo’s bouncy partner in crime, and Rowan Bartlett plays all-knowing Owl, with Anthony Stonier as ever-efficient Rabbit. Peter Court plays doleful donkey Eeyore, and also directs this production. Set and costume design is by Greg King.
The production rehearses from 7 June and will perform at The Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre from 30 June to 17 July, with performances at 2.30pm from Tuesday to Sunday and 7pm on Friday. No babes in arms or children under three.
Book for all the 2016 KickstArt productions at Computicket: www.computicket.co.za. Tickets are R180/R150/R120 for adults and tickets for children and pensioners: are R150/R120/R100.
