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Casting Call: A Christmas Carol
Milestones Museum, Basingstoke

We are casting performers for an immersive experience of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Milestones Museum in Basingstoke.

We are looking for confident, engaging performers with experience in immersive and/or conventional theatre or attraction based work. Performers should be comfortable with improvisation, working in an interactive environment, engaging directly with family audiences and bringing characters to life within a museum setting. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a festive, atmospheric production staged within the unique setting of Milestones Museum. We’re looking for performers with:
Strong improvisation and audience-engagement skills
Experience in immersive theatre, attractions, live events and/or theatre
Confidence performing in a busy public environment
Reliability, professionalism and good teamwork
A warm, playful and adaptable approach to performance

We are aiming to either have two casts or work with a Swing model to ensure all performances are covered and provide cover for characters.

Dates

Rehearsal Dates:
16/11/2026: 10am - 6pm
17/11/202: 5pm - 9pm
18/11/2026: 5pm - 9pm
19/11/2026: 5pm - 9pm
20/11/2026: 5pm - 9pm
22/11/2026: 10am - 6pm
23/11/2026 10am - 6pm

Show Dates:
25/11/2026 - 23/12/2026

Roles

Roles Details

Title

Belle/Clara

Content

This performer will play both Belle, Scrooge’s former fiancée, and Clara, Fred’s wife.

Belle is intelligent, compassionate and emotionally grounded, revealing the warmth and potential he once possessed, as well as the pain caused by his growing obsession with wealth.

As Clara, the performer should bring warmth, generosity and liveliness to the world. She is part of the welcoming, loving community that Scrooge has excluded himself from.

The role requires emotional range, natural audience connection and the ability to create two distinct characters within the production. The role of Clara will require strong improvisational skills and the ability to engage audiences with warmth and humour to lead the audience in traditional Christmas parlour games.

Salary

Rehearsal Fees: £631 (full period) Fitting Fee (half an hour call): £35 Weekday performances: £139 per 7.5-hour call Weekend performances: £111 per 6-hour call

Gender

Female Only

Age

20 - 26