Casting Calls/Auditions

We want to create a realistic adaptation of The Story of an Hour.  After talking to our tutor, we felt that some of the characters needed adapting.

We felt that all of our characters needed to be older.  In the story, Sarah is in her late 20s.  We felt that to make a realistic impact on the audience, we needed to convey that Sarah had been suffering for years.  We therefore decided to set the playing age at 30-40.  Jess' dad offered to play the part of either Richards or Brett.

This left us with 2 more parts to fill.  Obviously, no actors/actresses in our school were old enough to fit the playing age.  Because I am involved in amateur productions, I decided to advertise the roles on facebook, and on a local blog website dedicated to casting calls.