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Cast of Characters. Ralph: One of the leaders; friend to. Piggy. Jack: Leader of the hunters. Piggy: Innately wise; overweight; speaks with a lower class.
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LORD OF THE FLIES Audition Scenes From the play by Nigel Williams Based on the novel by William Golding
NOTE: Not all roles are represented here. Casting will be completed using the audition roles.
Tom & Beth Brooks, Directors (304) 596- TomsActors@gmail.com
Cast of Characters
Ralph: One of the leaders; friend to Piggy
Jack: Leader of the hunters
Piggy: Innately wise; overweight; speaks with a lower class dialect; has asthma
Roger: Dark personality; quiet and intense
Sam: Brother to Eric; starts sentences
Eric: Brother to Sam; finishes his brother’s sentences
Simon: Intelligent, curious
Henry: One of the hunters
Maurice: The clown
Bill: One of the hunters
Perceval: The youngest, appears to be 6 or 7
Naval Officer: British Fleet Naval Officer
Are they all dead do you think?
RALPH What?
PIGGY The plane broke up. It’s in two bits.
RALPH They can’t be.
PIGGY Why not? If they weren’t they’d be here. Organizin’. And worse things happen. My auntie says--
RALPH What does your auntie say?
PIGGY A lot.
The two boys grin.
Piggy|Jack|Ralph|Simon|Sam|Eric
All the boys have been playing, but PIGGY tries to get them to realize the seriousness of the situation.
PIGGY When you’ve all finished runnin’ all over the place, maybe we can start doin’ things prop’ly, because if all the grown-ups aren’t here...I mean if there aren’t any ...I mean if the bombs have...
This scares Jack into a flare of anger.
JACK (shouts) Shut up, can’t you? You stupid little boy!
Pause.
RALPH Who’s going to be in charge? Will it be one person or--
SIMON You have to have a vote.
PIGGY You do. You have to have a vote.
SAM And you have to -
ERIC count up the -
SAM numbers, and then -
ERIC if you’re on your -
SAM feet...
Pause. You talk.
RALPH We can’t all talk at once.
Jack|Bill|Henry|Maurice|Piggy|Sam|Eric
PIGGY holds the conch shell. The conversation has moved between freedom without grown-ups and the need for rules. The power of ideas is led by PIGGY, RALPH, and JACK.
JACK So what? So what if they’re all dead. Eh? (Striding round.) Look. Look over there. There’s fruit on those trees. And there’s fish in the sea. And it’ll be like...it doesn’t matter. We can do whatever we like, can’t we?
BILL (Shouts) Ye-eaah!
MAURICE Smash the place up...
HENRY (Shouts) Ye-eeaah!
MAURICE Midnight feasts! (He does his gorilla impression)
BILL (Shouts) Murder unlimited!
PIGGY We can’t, though. We can’t. We can’t do jus’ as we like. An’ if we all talk at the same time we’ll never get nowhere will we? I’ll tell you what. I’ll tell you what... (He holds up the conch, very earnestly.) This shell. This shell thingy... If we’re in a meetin’ ’ooever holds the shell means that person is talkin’. And that is a rule. A rule, you hear me? An’ it must never be broken.
The intellectual daring of this silences even JACK.
RALPH (Quietly) Okay.
(To RALPH) Just because he says.
RALPH Well...
JACK Is it a rule just because he says?
RALPH Well...it...
JACK I think we should talk about the leader and who’s the leader because you always need a leader and--
PIGGY You can’t
JACK Can’t what?
PIGGY Can’t talk.
JACK Can’t what?
PIGGY You ’aven’t got the shell. I got the shell.
JACK Look--
MAURICE Is it a rule though?
BILL It’s a roo-ool!
SAM School rules -
ERIC must be obeyed, and -
SAM at all times, boys must -
ERIC wear a cap on the premises, and--
Roger|Jack|Ralph|Maurice|Sam|Eric|Simon
Except for ROGER, the boys are together in a group when JACK spots a wild boar. Later in the scene when RALPH starts talking about building a fire, ROGER enters quietly from the back and watches.
JACK Look! Look!
RALPH It’s a pig!
SIMON Look at it go!
SAM Where?
SIMON There! There!
ERIC I can’t see it...
JACK It came from out of those trees. It was running with its head down. It’s come back! You see? There it goes! See?
SIMON It’s amazing! Look at it!
SAM Let’s get it! Come on! Let’s get it!
RALPH Steady on...
JACK Steady on what?
RALPH One thing at a time!
JACK What thing at a time?
How would you get it?
JACK Get sticks of course...
ERIC We haven’t got sticks!
JACK I’ve been hunting. In England. I’ve been hunting. It’s good fun. I’ve been out with the hunters.
Pause. When they blood you, they put blood all over you. I’m a good hunter in fact. I’m a natural hunter. We should sharpen sticks and go hunting. We should...
RALPH What we need...what we need...
MAURICE Is a good shit!
All laugh.
RALPH What we need is a fire.
Silence. We need to build a fire. Up here. Where it can be seen. And there needs to be smoke from the fire. And then a ship will see it. And rescue us.
ROGER Will they?
They all turn to look at ROGER.
RALPH They will. And that’s why the fire has to be--
ROGER If there’s any of them left.
RALPH They--
ROGER They’ll bomb each other to bits, won’t they? Isn’t that why we were all sent away like that? To get away from the bombs?
Perceval|Ralph|Jack|Roger
The boys’ fire has just gone out. There has been a lot of shouting, and a small child appears. RALPH sees him first.
RALPH Look!
The boys look down on him as if he were a visitor from Mars which, in his neat school uniform, his shining satchel and perfect prep school gear, he could well be. It’s a little kid!
JACK Must have seen the smoke!
PERCEVAL Was there a fire?
RALPH Yes. But it’s gone.
PERCEVAL Adam Jackson was next to me. But he isn’t...
RALPH Isn’t what?
PERCEVAL Isn’t here?
RALPH No.
Pause. No.
PERCEVAL I went into the trees...
RALPH Did you?
PERCEVAL I saw something...
RALPH Did you? Which school are you from?
Have the bombs killed everyone? Have they killed our mums yet?
RALPH Listen--
JACK What did you see?
PERCEVAL A beastie.
Pause. A snakey thing. I saw it.
Uneasy silence.
JACK Don’t be stupid. There’s no beastie. There--
PERCEVAL I saw it. Over there. In the trees. I went in. And I saw this thing.
RALPH (Trying to comfort him) I’m sure there isn’t. I’m sure. We’ve been up to that hill. And you can see all around. It all looks...I’m sure there isn’t. It’s just us. No beast.
SIMON (cont’d) I feel funny. I’m going to...don’t make me have a turn, sir, will you? Please don’t let me have a turn, sir. Ralph! Ralph! (And the fit starts. He begins reaching out for the head then falls, choking, feet drumming on the earth)
Officer|Ralph|Boys
The boys are shouting and the OFFICER approaches.
BOYS It’s the beast! Ralph! Ralph! It’s the beast!
OFFICER Who’s in charge here?
RALPH I am.
OFFICER And what’s going on?
RALPH It’s...
OFFICER What’s your name? You. The one in charge. (Pause) Cat got your tongue?
RALPH My name is...
OFFICER And what’s all this about a beast? (Pause) A game? Is that it? You’re all playing a game? (Pause. The OFFICER begins to move away in frustration) I’ll get the others from the boat. We saw your smoke, you see. I should have thought that a pack of British boys--you’re all British, aren’t you?--would have put on a better show than this.
