Play name
How to Date a Feminist
By Samantha Ellis
Director and Contact Details
Karen O’Neill
Koneill0912@gmail.com
Playing dates
23rd-27th September; Matinee and evening performances on Saturday 26th September; please note the Sunday the performance will start at 18-45 (TBC)
Get-in and Strike
Get-in Sunday 20th September; Strike Monday 28th September
Venue
Bromley Little Theatre ‘In the Bar’
Audition
Sunday 8th February at 4:00pm
About the play
A hilarious new spin on the Hollywood romcom featuring two proposals, two weddings, an elopement and a cast of unforgettable characters.
Kate likes her men tall, dark and smouldering. She has a fatal attraction to bad men. Then she meets Steve…
Steve is a feminist.
Can Kate overcome her love of lipstick, cupcakes and Heathcliff? Can Steve forgo the ethical confetti and learn to be a little bit more ravishing in bed? Can the two of them reinvent romance for the twenty-first century?
Samantha Ellis’s play How to Date a Feminist premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2016, ahead of a UK tour.
Time
The present
Location
Various locations
Style and Genre
Modern Comedy
Characters
Kate: early 30’s – intelligent, driven, journalist. Career girl with naughty but nice habits. Major role
Steve: early-mid 30’s – sensitive, vegetarian baker. Maybe a little too sensitive but generous and understanding. Major Role
Joe: 60+ – Kate’s dad, divorced, Jewish, conservative and traditional, a romantic at heart. – Medium Role
Morag: 60+ – Steve’s mum, feminist divorcee, radical who believes in her right to choose even if she makes a wrong choice. Medium Role (Scottish accent would be nice but it’s not a deal breaker). Medium Role
Carina: late 20’s/early 30’s – Steve’s former fiancée and still Morag’s close friend. A pragmatic, politically aware, stonemason. Medium Role
Ross: mid 30s+ – Kate’s ex-boyfriend. Dark and dirty, a bit of a cad. Kate’s ideal bad boy and also her boss. Medium Role
Audition pieces
Steve and Kate: Act 1, scene 3 – page 16 from
Steve: ‘What is it you like about bad men?’ to page 18 Steve: ‘Excellent’.
Joe and Kate: Act 2, scene 1 – page 30 from
Joe: ‘Go on, open it’ to page 32 Kate ‘I stayed Dad’.
Morag and Steve: Act 2, scene 2 – page 35 from
Morag: ‘I’m sorry I haven’t cooked…’ to page 37 Morag: ‘What was it, then?’
Ross and Kate: Act 1, scene 2 – page 12 from
Ross: ‘What happened to Lois Lane?’ to page 13 Kate: ‘Go away. Just leave me alone’.
Carina and Steve: Act 1, Scene 2 page 13 from
Steve: ‘No, it’s good. Minimalist. I like it’ to page 14 Steve: ‘Okay’.