Old Bomb Theatre Company to hold auditions for Anthony Minghella triple bill at York St John University

This session will be repeated on Sunday at midday with auditions in the afternoon, and the venue on both days will be Theatre Room 5, Quad West, York St John University, off Lord Mayor’s Walk, York.

Old Bomb’s production will comprise his award-winning play Cigarettes and Chocolate; a dance duet with voices, Hang Up; and the short monologue Days Like These, originally filmed for Comic Relief.

Introducing Cigarettes And Chocolate, director Paul Osborne said: “This funny and often moving play tells the story of a young woman who gives up speaking for Lent. Her silence forces her friends out of their everyday routine as they confront their own culpability, real or imagined.”

Ten actors (the majority aged 25 to 35), two dancers and various production staff are required for Osborne’s production, which will run for nine performances in The Studio at York Theatre Royal from February 11 to 20 2010 including a Saturday matinee. Rehearsals will start on January 3, preceded by two or three advance meetings/rehearsals before Christmas, dates to be confirmed.

Minghella, best known for his screenplays for The English Patient and Cold Mountain, started his career at Hull University and died last year aged only 54. Old Bomb’s past productions include Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot in February 2008 and Simon Stpehens’s On The Shore Of The Wide World last March, both at York Theatre Royal.

Anyone requiring more information on next February’s production should send an email to the director at paul.osborne@talktalk.net.