Actors auditioning must be available for the whole rehearsal period.

Auditions: Saturday 28th February, 10am-2pm and Monday 2nd March, 7pm -9.30pm

Rehearsals: Sundays, Monday evenings and Wednesday evenings. Exact times to be confirmed during casting.

Season Dates: 22 May - 6 June 2026

We are seeking performers from a wide range of ages, cultural, ethnic and linguistically diverse backgrounds, gender identities, body types and experiences to be part of Two Ladies.

The Creative Team is open to different interpretations of the character descriptions. All auditionees will be considered for all roles, except where a character is clearly identified within the script as belonging to a particular community of lived experience.

Hélène: Wife of the French President

Character age: sixties
Character gender: female

Hélène is a highly intelligent woman, with all the elegance you would expect of the French President’s wife, although this is her second marriage, and it is now in crisis. She likes to have control of the situation, and this time she’s been cut off from control. This is a major role brimming with biting wit, frustration and splashes of dark humour.

Hélène was born in England and has a proper English accent, but of course speaks French comfortably with a few simple lines of French dotted throughout the play. 

Sophia: First Lady of the United States

Character age: late forties to early fifties
Character gender: female

Sophia is a glamorous woman, unruffled and calm in almost every circumstance. Her cool demeanor can be easily mistaken for a lack of interest or intelligence, but she quickly proves how her life experience allows her to always maintain a semblance of control. This is a major role that touches on the challenging subject of sexual assault.

Ideally, Sophia will demonstrate an Eastern European accent blended with American. She also speaks a very small amount of simple French. 

Sandy: Press officer to the First Lady of the United States

Character age: early forties
Character gender: female

As a White House official and an actively dating single mother of three teenagers, Sandy is a multi-tasker extraordinaire. Always running multiple gadgets, the disastrous situation her First Lady has found herself in is nothing Sandy can’t get back under control. 

American accent required.

Georges: Press officer to the French President

Character age: thirties
Character gender: male

As an official in the host country, Georges is mortified that the First Lady has been attacked, but it’s not the only issue he has on his plate. He’s currently juggling a potential PR nightmare due to a marital crisis that makes managing things for Hélène more difficult than he had hoped. 

French accent is required, and a number of lines are spoken in simple French.

Fatima: A migrant to France, working as a catering assistant

Character age: twenties
Character gender: female

As a low-paid worker in a conference centre, Fatima is unprepared to serve these two high-profile women. Treated in the beginning as merely an assistant to everyone involved, as the story unfolds, she becomes an avatar for change and a pivotal player in the two ladies’ statement to the world. 

Most lines are spoken in simple French, until Fatima becomes central to the story and then accented English is required. As a migrant to France, we are looking for a performer from a culturally and linguistically diverse background relevant to Fatima’s lived experience. 

Note: In the script, this character is called CATERING ASSISTANT until we learn her name, and then she is called FATIMA.

All auditionees will be asked to perform scenes from the script during their audition. Scripts will be made available to all auditionees prior to auditions. Each audition will run for approximately 10 minutes.

Hélène:
Dialogue – Top of Page 16 to bottom of Page 18
Monologue – Page 68 from “You know what the most insulting thing…” to Page 70 “… - I swear when he comes out of that room and I see him -”

Sophia:
Dialogue – Top of Page 16 to bottom of Page 18
Monologue – Page 51 from “Ah yes. Journalist.” to Page 53 “and… he waves.”

Sandy:
Dialogue – Page 61 from “Listen to this…” to Page 62 “Oh yeah.”
Monologue – Page 63 from “It’s not my husband in there...” to Page 64 “You’re welcome.”

Georges:
Dialogue – Page 37 from “This cannot happen – “ to Page 38 “Vous, venez avec moi!”
Dialogue – Page 59 from  “Ladies, I have some news –“ to Page 61 “Can you please just trust me?”

Fatima:
Dialogue – Page 89 from  “Je suis désolée…” to Page 91 “…Okay”