Monday Oct. 19 and Tuesday Oct. 20, 2026

7:00 – 9:00pm

Memorial Hall, 2600 Hwy 56, Binbrook (at Fairgrounds)

Required: Actors, All ages 10 and over (including adults)         

Be prepared to:

1. Sing a song of your choice acapella, or with a karaoke-style backing track (bring your own).

2. Perform a short monologue (below) or one of your own choosing – you can read it, but memorizing it is preferable

No choreography this year.

Rehearsals: Begin mid-November, Tuesday and Thursday nights and Sunday afternoons. You must be able to attend all rehearsals.

Production dates: January 29-31, February 5-7, 12-14,  2027

Sample Monologues

From A CHRISTMAS CAROL SCROOGE

What else can I be, when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon Merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you, but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books; and having every item in ‘em through a dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

From PRIDE AND PREJUDICE MRS. BENNET

Oh my dear Mr. Bennet! The girls and I have had a most pleasant evening! Jane was so admired. Everyone said how well she looked. Indeed Mr. Bingley must have thought so for he danced with her twice! Of course, I was quite worried at the beginning for he asked Charlotte Lucas for the first dance. It was vexing but in the end I do not think he admired her at all. Indeed, nobody can – poor creature. And then he saw our Jane. He immediately inquired as to who she was, got quickly introduced and asked for her for the next two dances! I am quite delighted with Mr. Bingley. Just so you know. He is excessively handsome. And his sister is the most charming person. I never saw anything more elegant than Miss Bingley’s dress! There was a bit of unpleasantness though. Mr. Bingley’s friend – a Mr. Darcy. A shockingly rude gentleman. You would not have approved of his manners at all. For he is simply horrid. I wish you had been there, my dear. To give him one of your “set-downs.” 

The True Feelings of Godzilla

Guys, I know I knocked over a couple of buildings, but if you were my size, you would too. I’m not such a bad guy if you really get to know me. I don’t mean to alarm you. I bet you’d scream too if you stubbed your toe on a corner store. Oh, and sorry about the hot dog guy, he made me mad when he got my order wrong. It gets lonely being this big and living in the ocean. That’s why I thought the Statue of Liberty would make a nice girl friend. Sorry I knocked her over. It was an accident. By the way, it is hard to turn with a tail this long. Sometimes, stuff gets swept away, you know. Tell City Hall that I’m sorry their building is now a boat. So give a monster a break will ya?

Thanks for Nothing, Santa! (by Indiana Kwong)

“Please, Please, Please, Please, PLEASE!” I wake up before the sun and run into the living room. Under the tree is a huge pile of presents: some wrapped in red—those ones are from my Mom and Dad—and the rest are wrapped in gold paper. Those must be from Santa. I start to pick up the presents and shake them, real gentle, so I can hear if it rattles and feel how heavy it is. I always try to guess before I open it. I wrote a big list this year, but the main thing I want is a pink soccer ball. I pick up the biggest one. Looks about soccer ball size. It’s heavy too. I rip the gold paper off and…  A box of books?! It’s got pictures of fairies on the front, in different colours, with little silver stars all over it! What the heck am I gonna do with a bunch of fairy books?! Thanks for nothing, Santa!

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (adapted from the book by Lewis Carroll)  ALICE

Why, how impolite of him. I asked him a civil question, and he pretended not to hear me. That’s not at all nice. (Calling out.) I say, Mr. White Rabbit, where are you going? Hmmm. He won’t answer me. And I do so want to know what he is late for. I wonder if I might follow him. Why not? There’s no rule that I mayn’t go where I please. I- I will follow him. Wait for me, Mr. White Rabbit. I’m coming, too! (She falls.) How curious. I never realised that rabbit holes were so dark . . . and so long . . . and so empty. I believe I have been falling for five minutes, and I still can’t see the bottom! Hmph! After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs. How brave they’ll all think me at home. Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it even if I fell off the top of the house! I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time? I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny that would be. Oh, I think I see the bottom. Yes, I’m sure I see the bottom. I shall hit the bottom, hit it very hard, and oh, how it will hurt!

For more info please email info@binbrooktheatre.ca or call 905-692-5076