Show: HOME, I’M DARLING
Theater: Langhorne Players
Theater Website: https://www.langhorneplayers.org/auditions
Theater Phone: (215) 860-0818
Start date of auditions: 04/30/2026
Non-union/non-paid
Langhorne Players is thrilled to announce open auditions for HOME, I’M DARLING by Laura Wade.
Director: Peter Fenton
Producers: D. Ryan Lafferty & Ken Marblestone
Stage Manager: Terri Bentley
AUDITION DATES
Thursday, April 30, 6:30–9:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 2, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Callbacks, if necessary: Tuesday, May 5, 6:30-9:30 p.m. (by invitation only)
LOCATION
All auditions (and performances) will be in person at Langhorne Players – The Spring Garden Mill, 1440 Newtown-Richboro Road, Newtown, PA 18940.
HOW TO SIGN UP
After reviewing the information on this page, please sign up for a time slot at: https://tinyurl.com/HID-auditions.
WHAT TO PREPARE
It is highly recommended that you prepare a 60-90 second comedic monologue, but this is not required. Please keep it within a minute and a half. In addition to your monologue, sides will be provided from the script for cold readings. Come prepared to make choices with the text and take direction. Please try to familiarize yourself with the script prior to auditions.
Bring a completed audition information sheet (provided here), headshot, and conflict calendar (provided here) with you to the audition or email these to Terri Bentley at: terri@langhorneplayers.org
ABOUT THE PLAY
In today’s modern world, Judy and Johnny feel out of place. They’ve chosen to give up the trappings of the Internet age and live life like it’s 1950 allover again, but “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be…” How can they cope when the fantasy of domestic bliss clashes with cold hard reality? Issues of marriage partnership, identity, and traditional gender roles swirl in this halcyon dream of yesteryear where rules and routines become a love language all their own. “An original, sometimes unsettling look at the masks people put on in order to conceal their pain.” The Evening Standard. WhatsOnStage raves“…sharp, funny, and strikingly perceptive play,”
AVAILABLE ROLES
We’re casting six actors total: four female-presenting and two male-presenting.
JUDY (Mid–Late 30s/F): A whip-smart housewife who has left her work as a high-powered attorney to start a life as the perfect wife/domestic goddess. She genuinely enjoys the tasks of homesteading, loves her husband, Johnny, and has herself convinced that she adores living as a 1950s housewife, and that this arrangement is in fact working. Above all, she’s aware life outside is full of misery and wants her perfect fantasy to continue. She’s prepared to go to any length no matter how passively-aggressive to keep this unexamined dream humming right along.
JOHNNY (Mid–Late 30s/M): An impressionable real estate appraiser who may not necessarily have chosen to be the sole breadwinner of the household. He loves his wife Judy and, for her sake, tells himself he’s also happy with this arrangement as a perfect reflection of a good married couple in 1950s suburbia. Above all, he wants his partnership with his wife to be authentic and happy.
FRAN (Late 20s–Early 40s/F): Judy’s neighbor and close friend. She’s one of the unfortunate wives who has to work, she is a costume designer for various productions. Judy is quirky and her style perplexes Fran a bit, though she continues to want to maintain their friendship.
MARCUS (Late 20s-Early 40s/M): Fran’s husband and a friend of Johnny and Judy’s. He gets along well with Judy and wishes his wife would be a bit more like her, embracing the housewife life and letting him be “the man” of the house.
Sylvia (60s–70s/F): Judy’s mother, who was a feminist pioneer and functional anarchist who raised Judy partially on a commune. While she loves her daughter, she is disappointed in her life choices and wishes Judy understood what exactly she has chosen for herself by signing on for this 1950s housewife fantasy.
Alex (Late 20s–Mid 30s): Johnny’s new boss, who unexpectedly is a woman. She’s sharp-witted, beautiful, and a great conversationalist over cocktails. She is considering promoting Johnny and wants to get to know him better.
We are actively seeking a cast that represents the diversity of our surrounding communities. We will consider actors for all roles regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or presentation, or body type.
REHEARSALS
Will begin with a read-through on Tuesday, May 5 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Spring Garden Mill if callbacks are not required.
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
All performances are held at the Spring Garden Mill.
Week 1: July 10, 11, 12
Week 2: July 16, 17, 18, 19 (talkback following this performance)
Week 3: July 24, 25, 26
Friday & Saturday evening performances begin at 8:00pm. Thursday performances begin at 7:30pm. Saturday (7/25) and Sunday matinee performances begin at 3:00pm.
Call times for actors will be one hour prior to performance.
NOTE: All actors are required to participate in a talkback following the 2nd Sunday matinee, as well a set strike following the final performance.
QUESTIONS
Please email the producer at ryan@langhorneplayers.org if you have questions.
