AUDITIONS CALL (Calgary) – i-ROBOT Theatre @ Beakerhead*
Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre will hold auditions for
*i-ROBOT Theatre:*
*February 28 - 6pm-10pm*
*March 2/3 - 10am-6pm*
*March 4** **– Callbacks - 6pm-10pm*
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Character List Follows
*TIMELINE*
April 2013-September 2013
– April 20/21:
Weekend Creative Development Workshop
– May 18/19:
Weekend Creative Development Workshop
– June 22/23:
Weekend Creative Development Workshop
– July 20/21:
Weekend Creative Development Workshop
– August
17-September 2: Part time rehearsal.
– September
3-10: Full time rehearsal
– September
11-22: Performance Run
Remuneration: An Honorarium will be provided
BACKGROUND*
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This September, Swallow-a-Bicycle presents *i-ROBOT
Theatre, *a two-act original production performed in an industrial
warehouse-style space. *i-ROBOT
Theatre* integrates performance and cutting edge
technology to create live science fiction. It will be part of Beakerhead, a
citywide spectacle of arts and engineering.
The play explores a near-future world heavily populated
with robots. The show uses technology to ask philosophical questions on the
nature of identity and autonomy. The show is a re-working and retelling of the
original 2011 production that received rave reviews. This version will be
developed to be bigger, bolder and integrate more technology.
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To apply, please email your headshot and resume, along
with the
character(s) you would like to read for and preferred
audition times, to Kelsey Ledbury at ledburykelsey@gmail.com.
*Audition Notes:*
- A prepared monologue is not required, but if you wish
you may perform 1 contemporary monologue no longer than 2 minutes. Cold read
material will be provided.
- Callbacks will include group work.
- For call backs Actors are required the full duration of
6pm-10pm on March 4.
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*Please note *i-ROBOT Theatre *will be a highly
experimental and collaborative process. Aside from assigned characters, actors
will be part of a group ensemble and the second half of the play will be highly
physical in nature. Dance and/or physical theatre experience is *not *a
pre-requisite; comfort working physically and an openness to physical
improvisation *is *a prerequisite. Actors may also be employed as puppeteers;
no puppet experience is necessary beyond a willingness to learn.
*Character Descriptions (Some roles are double cast)*
*Wife* – Female. 23-30. Top of the line android
prototype. Very realistic but cannot completely pass as human.
*Jonathan* – Male. 25-30. Human. Programmer. Book smart,
passionate, hardworking. Treats robots with some respect but ultimately does
not view them as equals.
*Humidifier *– Female or male. 20-40. Household Robot.
Innocent at first.
Takes corporeal form in the second act.
*Heaven Android Robots #1, #2, #3* – Male or female.
20-50. Newly created, little experience and very naive. Learning about the
world.
*Builderbot* – Male or Female. Large industrial robot
with revolutionary tendencies. Will be a multi-piece puppet.
*President* – Female. 30-45. CEO of DreamCorp, the
world’s largest robot manufacturing company.
Confident, used to getting her way. Expects obedience.
*Siegfried* – Male or Female. Junkyard Robot. Built from
the scraps of discarded and outdated robots. Dangerous. (Will be a puppet)
*Snotra* – Male or Female. Junkyard Robot. Built from the
scraps of discarded and outdated robots. Dangerous. (Will be a puppet)
Check out the i-ROBOT Theatre trailer:
Beakerhead information: www.beakerhead.org
For questions or more information, contact Kelsey Ledbury
at ledburykelsey@gmail.com.
--
Charles Netto
Co-Artistic Director
Swallow-A-Bicycle Theatre
"A playwright lives in an occupied country. He's the
enemy. And if you can't live like that, you don't stay. It's tough. He's got to
be able to take a whack, and he's got to swallow bicycles and digest
them."
- Arthur Miller, 1915-2005
