Blurb for the newsletter to try and tempt people into auditioning:

When the ruling classes are overthrown and a country is plunged into chaos, what happens to the “little people”?
Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle tells the story of the fallout when the governors flee the city, abandoning their beloved child and heir. A family servant can’t bring herself to abandon the child to the rampaging army and carries him to the surrounding hills for safe-keeping. But years later when the war ends, the governor’s wife returns to the city and demands the return of her son - her meal ticket.
It’s left to Azdak, the drunk judge of indeterminate origin, to rule in the famous case of the Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Characters
This play has a cast of not quite thousands but certainly a lot. So the following covers the larger roles. I’m planning a lot of doubling up (and probably tripling) to cover 1st and 2nd architect for example. So don’t despair if none of the following fit you. All the more reason for you to come to the auditions!
If you’ve studied the script, it might comfort (or appal) you that I’m planning to cut the songs. I don’t have a musical bone in my body so thought it was best not to inflict my inabilities on a wider audience.
Key characters as follows:
The Singer – this is the narrator character. Could be any age, male or female. Shouldn’t be self-conscious about spouting poorly translated verse as he / she does a lot of this.
Fat Prince – engineers the coup. The baddie. Probably a man. Any age.
Natella Abashvili – the child’s mother. Think Posh Spice.
The doctors (two of them!) – any age, male or female again. Entrusted with the child’s welfare.
Grusha – the peasant girl who finds the child. Should be 20 / 30 something.
Simon – Grusha’s intended, until her brother marries her off to a dying man for the sake of respectability.
Various assorted peasants that meet Grusha as she flees the city.
Three soldiers – a corporal and two long-suffering foot soldiers. Any age.
Grusha’s brother and his wife. Unhappily married, wife is a nag and brother lacks backbone.
Jussup – the so-called invalid, at death’s door until he discovers the war is over and effects a miraculous recovery. Grusha’s husband.
Azdak – the crazy drunken judge. Should probably be a man, any age. Has some long rambling speeches.
The lawyers – again, two of them. A great little double act. Fight the case for Natella’s ‘ownership’ of the child in the climactic scene. Again, m or f.
Various assorted riff raff who take their cases to the judge for the dispensing of justice. A buxom lass who dispenses her favours with abandon, a blackmailing farmer, an old lady who sees off bandits and more. Again, some great little parts.