Auditions will be held for Mates Theatre Genesis next production at the Birkdale School of Arts hall at 7.30pm on March 13 and 15. The production is Surprise Package, a fun, farcical English comedy written by Duncan Greenwood and Derek Parkes. It will be staged in June. Auditions are for the four male and seven female roles. Surprise Package is being directed by James Auld who has experience in non-professional theatre as a director and production designer going back to the 1970s, including directing Sound of Music with Inverell Musical and Dramatic Society. Surprise Package is about the Tinsley family. They are caricatures of English tourists and have booked a vacation in a villa in Spain.  This particular villa has been selected by young Ron in the hope that he will get back together with his girlfriend Gloria Armitage - who is also holidaying there with her mother.  Various confusing relationships and misunderstandings occur which become the source for much hilarity. More on matestg.org.au  Register with auditions@matestg.org.au