The Farmer’s Wife Community Cast Callout – Theatre by the Lake

Closing date: Fri 26 Jun. Full information can be found here.

We’re looking for a community cast of women to work alongside our professional acting company in bringing to life The Farmers Wife (18 Sep – 10 Oct), a new play by Hannah Khalil, inspired by the memoir by Helen Rebanks, directed by TBTL’s Artistic Director Liz Stevenson. In The Farmer’s Wife, one day holds a lifetime. Three generations of women from the same family – a daughter, a mother, and a grandmother – share a kitchen, their stories overlapping as the past and present sit side by side.

Animals need feeding. The bills need paying. The forms need filling in. The meals need cooking. The vet needs calling. The list never ends.

At the centre of it all is one woman, holding everything together and beginning to wonder how much longer she can.

Inspired by Helen Rebanks’ Sunday Times best-selling memoir and shaped by t...