Type

Theatre

Location

Greater London

Content

Casting "Darling, I Think I’m Turning Into a Chicken," a darkly comic new play about generational trauma and transformation.

Florence has everything she’s ever wanted: a fiancée, a thriving career, and a perfect home. But when she starts to grow feathers, her carefully constructed life begins to unravel. As the transformation worsens and threatens to kill her, Florence discovers she’s not alone: her estranged family are changing too. To survive, she must confront the past she’s spent a lifetime avoiding.

Blending new writing with choreographed movement and ensemble physical theatre, the piece moves between realism and absurdism. Using the image of the chicken, fragile yet descended from the T-Rex, the play explores how trauma is carried in the body, and what happens when it is left unspoken across generations. Urgent, surreal and darkly funny, Darling, I Think I’m Turning Into a Chicken asks what it takes to break cycles of inheritance—and whether healing is ever truly possible.

Dates

R&D May; rehearses June; performs July.

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17:00 - 16th May 2026

Roles

Darren Scott

Male Only 30 - 37

Mary Adler

Female Only 50 - 60

Richard Adler

Male Only 50 - 60

Evelyn Adler

Female Only 60 - 80

Nurse

Female Only 40 - 60

Shernice

Female Only 35 - 50

Doctor

Male Only 50 - 60

Mark

Male Only 40 - 50

Roles Details

Title

Evelyn Adler

Content

Florence’s grandmother and Richard’s mother, female-presenting, around nineties. A survivor of many hard times, a lifelong pyromaniac and the kind of grandmother who keeps on living with sheer spite. Having overcome many traumatic events, from war to psychiatric hospitals, her resolve is undeniable. She is the only one of the family to have survived the threat of turning into a chicken in the past, and as such she could be a valuable mentor and support to her granddaughter Florence - if only her memory was any better and her mind not so filled with reluctance, bitterness and mistrust towards her family members - especially towards the one who is dead. She has never hated or mistrusted anyone as much as her late husband, Florence’s grandpa, whom she fired from life quite literally.

“We take. We blame. I bet you’re here to take from me, too. Well, you’re too late!”

Salary

Estimated 144 hours of work Total: £2,641

Gender

Female Only

Age

60 - 80