Details are also available on the TIP website.

To book an audition, email TIP at info@torontoirshplayers.com.

Indicate your preferred audition date, time and principal characters for whom you wish to audition. Attach a resumé and recent headshot/photo if you have one. (There will be a form provided at the audition, as well).

If the director does not know your work, for the first audition, prepare a monologue (comedic or dramatic) of 90 seconds to 2 minutes maximum. Be ready to be redirected after you present your monologue. Read the script before you audition as it will make the style and content of the play clearer. Soft copies of the script will be made when you book the audition. Sides will be sent if you are invited to the callback.  

Irish or English accents are not required for the audition process but will be required for performance.

Non-equity, non-paying. Toronto Irish Players is committed to diversity, and encourages performers of all ethnicities, genders and ages to attend every audition.

The play takes place during Christmas time in a Castleknock, Dublin home. Edie is delighted to have her family reunited for the occasion and is determined to celebrate in a traditional manner, but other family members have alternative views on how the holiday should be celebrated. Edie is just about coping until she discovers that one of her sons, who has returned from London with a black girlfriend, has become a Buddhist and prefers to meditate in his room than eat the lovingly prepared turkey. The play explores how the intrusion of one stranger into the ritual of Christmas can challenge a family's cozy sense of who they are and lead to the hidden cancer of unspoken family secrets finally having to be addressed. It depicts the thin veneer of unconscious racism within people whose outwardly comfortable lives allowed them the luxury of never having to confront such prejudices before.