Carlton Little Theatre

The Little Theatre, Grange Road West, Birkenhead, CH41 4BY

About Us


This is the website for the Little Theatre in Birkenhead. Every season we are host to a large range of plays from outside companies and our own resident amateur theatre group, Carlton Players who produce six plays a season. On this website you'll find details of our forthcoming plays and 2012-13 season, details of how to hire the theatre and a full production history for Carlton Players.

Forthcoming Production

The Carlton Players' next production will be

 HI-DE-HI

To see the cast list click here

Auditions

Audition days for the 2012-13 season are 18th, 20th & 22nd June details below.  They start at 7.30 each night. If you can't make the correct night contact the theatre or director to arrange a convienent time. Copies of the plays are available to read on Wednesday nights each week.

PLEASE NOTE, ALL AGES ARE NOT CAST IN STONE AND CAN BE CHANGED

Monday 18th June

Nobodys' Perfect

Perfomances late September

It's a comdey (bordering on farce!). Cast of four

(1) teenage female probably late teens

(2) her father

(3) his father - a reprobate!

(4) fairly feisty female broadly same age as (2)

Dracula

Performances 27/11/2012 to 1/12/2012.

adapted by Liz Lochhead from Bram Stokers Book. This is a serious version not a comedy version.
 
Characters
Males
Dracula                        any age. 
Seward                        20-35.
Johnathon Harker         20-35 younger than Seward
Renfield                       any age Inmate at bedlam
Van Helsing                  any age

Female
Mina                             20-35
Lucy                             16-35  younger than Mina
Florrie                           16-35 maid to Mina and Lucy
Grice                            any age Nurse at bedlam
Nisbitt                           any age Nurse at bedlam
 

Wednesday 20th June

Double Vision

Comedy by Eric Chappell

Performances late 5th - 9th Feb 2013

SPINKS  Age:  50ish 

One of life’s failures.
Ex-boxer, and was a failure at that. Now losing his sight, living on benefits
in a very untidy one bedroom flat at the top of a tower block. Friendless,
except for Kingsley. Fed up with living like this and has a cunning plan.

 

KINGSLEY  Age: 40-50

Spinks’ only friend. A
rakish, haggard drinker. Most people would say they’ve never seen him really
drunk. Spinks would say they’ve never really seen him sober. Sharp and
intelligent, but cynical. He, too, is flat broke. Lives nearby and drops in on
Spinks regularly.

 DAWN/DONNA PRINGLE  Age 40ish

Peach of a part – same
actress plays 2 women, who claim to be identical twins.

Dawn is a very prim and
proper, highly respectable churchgoer.

Donna is flighty, sexy, and
very manipulative.

Impact

Performances March 2013

Friday 22nd June

Sense & Sensibility

Performance 23-27 April 2013.

Adapted from the Jane Austen.

Elinor Dashwood 20+

Marianne Dashwood 18+

Colonel Brandon 35+

Edward Ferrars 20-30's

John Willoughby 20-30's

Aunt Jennings 40+

Lucy Steele 20+

Time and Time Again

Performance s June 2013

 

Previous Productions

The Carlton Players' most recent production was: The Hound of the Baskerville's.
hound of the baskervilles

To view the list and information of all our previous productions please click here. You will be able to find photos, cast lists and information about many of the plays that the Carlton Players have produced during our 80-year history.