Auditions

Sunday 10 August, 7pm-10pm

Monday 11 August, 7pm-10pm

Tuesday 12 August, 7pm-10pm

Rehearsals

TBC

Season Dates - November 2025

Friday 7th November, 7.30pm, Saturday 8th November, 7.30pm, Sunday 9th November, 2.00pm

Friday 14th November, 7.30pm, Saturday 15th November, 7.30pm, Sunday 16th November, 2.00pm

Thursday 20th November, 7.30pm, Friday 21st November, 7.30pm, Saturday 22nd November, 7.30pm

All characters will require English accents.

Note: The following characters will be played one actor across the 3 episodes.

Blackadder (male identifying. Playing age range: 25-40)
Edmund Blackadder is a cunning, sarcastic nobleman with a sharp tongue and an eye for advancement. Constantly frustrated by the idiots surrounding him, he schemes his way through court life with wit and disdain. He sees himself as the only intelligent man in a sea of fools.

Baldrick (male identifying. Playing age range: 25-35)
Baldrick is Blackadder’s dim-witted servant, forever grubby and proudly stupid. His plans are always terrible, yet he offers them with earnest enthusiasm. Loyal to a fault, he’s the butt of many jokes—and rarely understands any of them.

Queen Elizabeth (Queenie) (female identifying. Playing age range: 20-35)
 Childlike, capricious, and dangerously bored, Queen Elizabeth delights in power games and petty punishments. She swings wildly between girlish glee and sudden wrath. Beneath her crown lies a wildly unpredictable mind.

Lord Percy (male identifying. Playing age range: 25-40)
A foppish and clueless aristocrat, Percy is obsessed with fashion and status but lacks both intelligence and self-awareness. He considers himself Blackadder’s equal, though he is regularly outwitted and humiliated. His attempts at alchemy and advice are unfailingly disastrous.

Lord Melchett (male identifying. Playing age range: 35-50)
The Queen’s blustering and sycophantic advisor, Melchett is pompous, loud, and fiercely loyal to Elizabeth. He thrives on enforcing her whims and bullying others beneath him. He and Blackadder share mutual contempt, thinly disguised as civility.

Nursie (female identifying. Playing age range: 30-50)
Nursie is Queenie’s childhood nurse, still treating her like a little girl. Confused, doddery, and prone to bizarre stories about udders and milkmaids, she’s cheerfully oblivious to the chaos around her. Her outdated affection is both touching and utterly maddening.

Note: We are also casting an ensemble of five actors to play featured roles in the production.

Ensemble 1 (Female Identifying, playing age range 20-30):

Will play the roles of Kate/Bob, Geoffrey Piddle and Guard 1. Note: The actor cast in this role will be wearing traditionally male costumes in the production.

Ensemble 2 (Male Identifying, playing age range: 50+):

Will play the roles of Kate/Bob’s Father and Lord Whiteadder. Note: Since Lord Whiteadder has taken a vow of silence, we are seeking an actor with a particularly expressive face.

Ensemble 3 (Male Identifying, playing age range 30-50):

Will play the roles of Dr Leech and Simon Partridge.

Ensemble 4 (Male Identifying, playing age range 20-40):

Will play the roles of Young Crone, Monk and Torturer. Note: The Torturer does not speak English, only Spanish. The Torturer’s lines can be re-written phonetically.

Ensemble 5 (Female Identifying, playing age range: 40-60):

Will play the roles of: Wisewoman, Lady Whiteadder and Guard 2.

Note: The roles of Lord Flashheart and Prince Ludwig have been precast.

We are seeking performers from a wide range of ages, cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds, gender identities and body types to be part of this special production. The creative team are open to different interpretations of the character descriptions.

Auditionees are asked to prepare a comedic monologue of no longer than a minute in length.

You will be asked to perform a cold read of a scene from Blackadder of the character that you are auditioning for.

All characters will require English accents. There will be time to perfect accents during rehearsals, but we encourage all auditionees to attempt an accent during their audition.