THREE ONE ACT PLAYS – THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE 18 – 21 FEBRUARY 2026

Auditions Monday 10th & Wednesday 12th November 2025

Warehouse Theatre, Ilminster – 7:30pm

 

SURE THING by David Ives

Directed by Clare Brett

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Sure Thing is a short comic play by David Ives featuring a chance meeting of two characters, Betty and Bill, whose conversation is continually reset by the use of a ringing bell, starting over when one of them responds negatively to the other.

Sure Thing is both comic and philosophical. Through repetition, it exposes how identity, including class and gender, is constructed through language, and how this, in turn, creates opportunity. In a very compact fifteen-minute play, it touches on important issues in the philosophy of language: iterability, performance, labelling, and genre. It engages in satire of social conformity and explores the roles of time and chance in the development of relationships. Language both destroys and creates Bill and Betty’s futures. Ultimately, Sure Thing has a romantic, if wry, sensibility—it wants Bill and Betty to live happily ever after, even if they have to become completely different people to leave the cafe together.

I am looking for 2 actors (1 male, 1 female) of similar ages – could be 20’s, 30’s, early 40’s.

Rehearsals will start in the New Year and will be scheduled around the availability of the actors.

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THE PROMISE by Valda Dagnell

Directed by Valda Dagnell

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The Promise by Valda Dagnell, will be performed as one of three one-act plays for IES 19th – 22nd February 2026. The Promise will be directed by Valda.

A long-married couple come to the point of putting into practice what they have promised each other - that if and when the time came that they couldn’t cope, they would help each other to die, peacefully, together. The play looks back at a lifetime spent together, and what may be the limits of love and loyalty.

 

Cast:

Elaine, Harry – a long-married couple.

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KNOCKIN’ ON DAVE’S DOOR by Neil Webster,

Directed by Ken Cooper

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Knockin’ on Dave’s Door by Neil Webster, will be performed as one of three one-act plays for IES 19th – 22nd February 2026.

The play will be directed by Ken Cooper. Knockin’ on Dave’s Door was originally one episode of the Urban Myths biographical comedy drama television series first aired in 2017, each episode featuring an anecdote surrounding popular culture loosely based on a true story. In August 1993, American singer/songwriter, Bob Dylan, is reported to have flown to London to visit his friend, Dave Stewart – one half of The Eurythmics. The story goes that, confused by the many similar street names in Crouch End, Dylan calls at the wrong house – that of Dave, a plumber, and  a serious Bob Dylan fan. Ken has been given special permission to adapt the script for the stage.

Principal characters:

Bob Dylan

Dave The Plumber

Ange: Dave’s girlfriend

Supporting cast:

A London cabbie

{ A customs officer (female)

{ A waitress (female – could double)

 

REHEARSALS will take place twice a week, beginning early January,

 

IES plan to enter the play in the 2026 Somerset County Drama Festival which will run 21st and 22nd March at the Warehouse Theatre.

 

Enquiries: Ken Cooper – kencoo@clara.net      07966 205519