AUDITION

 ROPE 

A Thriller by Patrick Hamilton

Adapted by Meagan Mulgrew

Director: Meagan Mulgrew

Assistant Director: Rachel Brown

Production Designer: Brittany Campbell

Stage Manager: Mads Barron

Performance Dates:

September 24 - 28, 2025 (tentative)

Performance Location:

TBA

Rehearsals begin: July 27th, 2025

PLOT SUMMARY:

This September, Riffraff will premiere a brand-new adaptation of Rope by Patrick Hamilton, the play that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s groundbreaking 1948 film of the same name. Rope tells the story of two university students who, after killing their classmate in cold-blood, hide the body in a trunk and then throw a party, just to see if they can get away with the “perfect crime.” But when a suspecting former professor attends, will the boys buckle under the strain of their guilt? One of the great suspense thrillers of our time, Rope is a chilling, immersive examination of privilege, morality, and justice.

AUDITION INFO:

Audition Dates:

Friday, July 11, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Saturday, July 12, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Callbacks: Sunday, July 13, 3:00pm - 6:00pm

Audition Location:

Scissor Tail Studio (The Loft), 1660 E 71st St #2l, Tulsa, OK

Directions: We are located in Bridgepointe Shopping Center, across the street from Braum's. Take the stairs or elevator next to Hand of Fortune Tattoo, and we are in the space directly to the left at the top of the stairs. Feel free to send us a message on Facebook or Instagram if you have trouble finding us!

Details: Auditions will be a monologue of your choosing, either one you have prepared or one of the monologues from the show listed below. For this production, contemporary audition monologues are preferred.

If you cannot make initial callbacks on Friday or Saturday but are still interested in auditioning, please submit a self-tape of your monologue to meagan@riffrafftulsa.org by Saturday, July 12 at 8:00pm. 

Callbacks will be scene readings from the script.

All levels of experience are welcome and encouraged to audition! Have questions about the audition process? Please email meagan@riffrafftulsa.org - we’re here to help!

CASTING:

For this production, we are looking for an ensemble of 8 actors. Actors of all backgrounds are highly encouraged to audition. This production is site-specific and interactive, so comfortability with improvisation is a bonus but not a requirement.

BRANDON. Early to Mid 20s. Incredibly intelligent. Incredibly good-looking. Incredibly deep pockets. Brandon has the world at his feet, which is exactly where he likes it. 

CHARLES. Early to Mid 20s. Polite, introverted, charming. Charles’ world is very quickly spinning out of control and his carefully crafted mask is slipping.

RUPERT. 30s to 40s. A veteran, professor, and poet. Infinitely weary - and perhaps suspicious - of all things.

LEILA. Early to Mid 20s. Painfully hopeful. Loves many-syllabled words but often uses them incorrectly. Very rarely means what she says.

SABOT. 40s. Brandon’s father’s assistant. Keen-eyed and quietly ambitious.  

KENNETH. Early to Mid 20s. Mild-mannered and non-confrontational as a means of survival. Of a different class than Brandon and Charles, and they make sure he knows it. 

MR. KENTLEY. 50s - 60s. Has been in a position of total authority throughout the majority of his life and therefore has no need to assert himself. A kind man, but with limits. 

MRS. DEBENHAM. 50s - 70s. Surrounded by a lost, absent-minded gloom. Very quiet. Very tired. 

AUDITION MONOLOGUES:

RUPERT. I think it would be disingenuous to say that I don’t approve of murder. I have committed murder myself. See, it is simply a question of scale. A desperate, hungry someone stabs an unprepared, unlucky someone in an alleyway - let’s say a robbery gone wrong - and everyone screams out for revenge. But when the whole population of a nation rises up to slaughter the whole population of another - because they were instructed to, because they were told it would make their own lives better - everyone applauds. We are horrified by killing on a small scale and yet revere it on the large. That is the difference between what we call murder and war. And I’ve been to war. So how could I possibly say I disapprove of murder? I’m no hypocrite. I know what I am. 

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Interested in working with Riffraff but not an actor? We’re always looking for production assistants in lighting, sound, props, costumes, stage management, and directing! Send an email to meagan@riffrafftulsa.org and let us know how you’d like to be a part of Saint Joan.