Call to Audition

FEST Production: Pygmalion

Performance Dates in 2025: March 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30

Time: 7.30pm (Sundays 3.30pm)

Director: Daniel Toyne

Assistant Director: Cornelia Groeger

Producers: Gulmira Jumayeva and Julie Ng

Set Design: Isabel Bohlman         

We are in the process of building our production team! If you are interested in helping out creatively backstage, please send an email expressing your interest to [email protected].

About Daniel

Daniel is a FEST member and was, for forty years, a teacher of English Literature, in UK, Singapore & Germany, specializing in Shakespeare, women poets & 20th century drama.

He has been involved in community theatre for many years, both as director and actor – major roles include Prospero, Gloucester and Undershaft (Major Barbara). He has also directed works by Shakespeare, Priestley, Miller, Pinter, Bennett and many others, often working on school tests in performance. Daniel directed three projects for FEST and appeared in ShakespeareFrankfurt’s King Lear. Now retired and living in UK, he is active with his local community theatre, as well as finding time for theatre, opera and music around the country. He is currently working on a public lecture – Shakespeare & Foregiveness – to be given in California later in the year.

About the PLAY

First performed in Vienna in 1913, Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece is inspired by the Greek myth of creating the perfect woman. PYGMALION is a social commentary set within the structures & conventions of a comedy of manners. Both of these aspects of the play will be developed in the FEST production as it explores Shaw’s concerns of poverty, class, gender & the types of societal structure we accept. In retelling his fable, we will ask the audience his question – what are our values, and how are they demonstrated in the way we treat each other.

More information on roles and how to regsiter for auditions here!