For all you budding actors, dancers and singers out there, auditions are taking place on Sunday, June 15, for a new show to be performed at Margate’s Theatre Royal.

The Really Promising Company invites allcomers to showcase their skills and try for a part in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

This is an unfinished tale by one of Broadstairs most famous residents, Charles Dickens. It has no ending and the audience are invited choose one of several possible conclusions, each of which will have been rehearsed by the company.

Enthusiasm, a sense of humour and a willingness to muck in are the main requirements for the auditions which start at 10am at the Aphra Theatre, Lumley Centre, next to Canterbury’s Gulbenkian Theatre on the university campus.

The production will be performed at the Theatre Royal on October 11 and 12.

The Really Promising Company was formed by cast from Promised Land, performed as part of the 2006 Canterbury Festival.

It was followed by Kentish Tales at the Theatre Royal in 2007.

The company is unique because it enables members of the community to perform alongside established professionals, choreographers, composers, directors, musicians, singers, etc.

Wherever possible they produce shows strongly linked to the history of east Kent.

For more information, visit www.reallypromisingcompany.org.uk or contact membership@reallypromisingcompany.org.uk