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Are you interested in a rewarding and exciting workshop
weekend, collaborating with award-winning Canadian playwrights and
professional dramaturges?
Theatre BC invites community, student and non-Equity actors to submit an
acting/reading resume and a recent photo for the New Play Festival, held
April 10th -12th, 2009 at the Pavilion Theatre in Kamloops, BC. Applicants will
be considered for roles required to workshop the three national
award-winning (Re-working Sessions), and five Finalist (Round Table Session)
scripts from Theatre BC's 19th Annual Canadian National Playwriting
Competition.
Please note that participants will not be paid. Theatre BC offers this as a
workshop session and an opportunity to give back to Canada's playwrights.
All Actors and Readers will be expected to register for the New Play
Festival at our minimal all-access 'Festival Pass' weekend rate. This covers
hospitality and admission to all other activities during the weekend,
including the Playwrights' Reception and the Staged Public Readings.
To be considered for a role, please submit a photo and bio to:
Theatre BC's New Play Festival
PO Box 2031, Nanaimo, BC V9R 6X6
Electronic copies can be sent to:
info@theatrebc.org. If you are submitting electronically, your photo
must be in jpg, tif, or pdf format.
The deadline is 5:00 pm, Friday, February 27, 2009.
Re-Working Session Roles:
(Friday evening, all day Saturday and Sunday, Staged Public Readings on
Sunday afternoon)
Full Length Winner
The Death of Sir Arthur Currie by Jeff Pitcher, North Vancouver, BC
Characters:
Currie, Sir Arthur Currie, Commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I
Haig, Field Marshal Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the war
Evans, Sir Walter Evans, Canadian veteran of WWI
Preston, Owner and publisher of a small newspaper in southern Ontario. He is also a lawyer defending himself in a libel suit brought by Currie.
Robert, A young Lieutenant attached to General Currie during the last days of WWI
Hughes, Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence for the Canadian Government during the first half of WWI
Jack, Canadian Officer during WWI
Tilley, Ontario lawyer representing Sir Arthur Currie in his court action against Preston
Sarah, Robert’s younger sister, a legal secretary for Tilley during the court action
One Act Winner
The Big Polka Dot by Joel Janisse, Vancouver, BC
Characters:
Ivan, a struggling playwright, 35
Blue, Ivan’s girlfriend, 22
Skinny, struggling actor and Ivan’s long time friend, 35
Ms. Bruce, big time Hollywood producer, in her 30s
Ted, the founder of Polka Dotology, 40s
Special Merit Winner
Pox by Harold Rhenisch, Campbell River, BC (full length)
Characters (4 actors):
Smallpox, a Shuswap First Nation ancestor, also plays Fake Begbie
Begbie, Colonial British Columbia Hanging Judge, also plays Fake Smallpox
Mary, a ghost (sequentially, actually six ghosts with the same name)
Salmon, an older ghost
FINALISTS (alphabetical order by title)
4-Hour Round Table Session Readers: Public Readings TBA
A Dying Family Tradition by Dianne Lococo, Toronto, ON (full Length)
Characters:
Cadence Savage
Agnes Savage, Cadence’s dead mother
Paxton Savage, Cadence’s dead father
Melody, a manly Australian woman, claiming to be Cadence’s long-lost half-sister
Harmony, a mean yogi, also claiming to be Cadence’s half-sister
A Year of Winter by Scott Sharplin, Edmonton, AB (full length)
Characters (2 actors in total):
Terry Winter, 33, is a brilliant painter and a paranoid schizophrenic agoraphobe.
Alice Martin, 33, is both fiercely protective and secretly jealous of Terry. Although her habits and appearance tend towards disorderly, she takes deliberate and exhausting steps to maintain structure and routine.
The actor who plays Terry Winter also plays the following characters:
Crystal Dutton, an art critic and radio personality.
Trey Robertson, Alice’s agent.
Dr. Fisher, formerly a child psychiatrist, now retired following a stroke.
Dream for Upirngaq by Tanya M. Gadsby, Victoria, BC (Full-length)
Characters:
(8 actors in total with double casting)
Buniq, female, short, 18-28
Kautaluk, male, 18-28
Nukilik, female, tall, 18-28
Taligvak, male, 18-28
Qorvik / Tekkeitsertok, male, 40-50
Thanadelthur / Sedna, female, 30-40
Puck, genderless, ageless
Oogrooq, male, 30 40
* Lichens / Moss / Rocks / Fish, ageless, can be double cast with four lovers where it's possible in the script.
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