Auditions & Artist Call – Provocation Series
at Sage Theatre’s IGNITE! Festival, June 10-13, 2020
Swallow-a-Bicycle is thrilled to host a third iteration of the Provocation Series at the IGNITE! Festival of Emerging Artists, after successful editions in 2018 and 2019! For obvious reasons, this year’s festival will take place in digital space, or otherwise at-a-distance. Details about this year’s artists and projects will be available soon; in the meantime, there’s a project looking for performers!
The Odds and Sods Cabaret, written by Emily Parkhouse, is seeking non-Equity actors for an upcoming public reading. To ensure the safety of artists and audience members, all rehearsals and the reading itself will take place in a digital realm.
Successful applicants will receive an honorarium of $100.
Directed by Elizabeth Stepkowski-Tarhan, rehearsals will take place in early June while the reading will be scheduled between June 10th-13th. Further scheduling details are being confirmed and will be provided as they become available!
SYNOPSIS: The Odds and Sods Cabaret
Sacrificing their bodies and their blood to avoid a life on the savage streets of a ruined city, the women of Mrs. O’s mysterious ‘Odds & Sods Cabaret’ struggle to survive on small luxuries and any love they can find, while traversing the treachery of their fellow performers.
AVAILABLE ROLES:
Mrs. O: (She/Hers) early 40’s / late 50’s. Her greying hair is well kept at all times. She wears cold, stark colours to display her status over the women in her employ – in fact she is the only character to do so – also as a part of her higher status, she keeps a natural skin tone. Powerful, domineering & statuesque, Mrs. O is a controlling and quietly menacing presence.
Pandora: (She/Hers) early 40’s; tall, powerful, superior. She has commanded attention her entire life, but is wearing down.
Delilah: (She/Hers) mid-late teens. Naive and innocent. She has an intrigue about her, but in her innocence she does not see it. This innocence quickly erodes as she becomes entrenched in the cabaret life.
Lilith: (She/Hers) late twenties/early thirties, Amazonian, no trace of delicacy; more striking than beautiful. She has an aura of madness, but with an underlying current of potential power.
The Pianist: (They/Them) Early thirties. Mrs. O’s reluctant assistant.
The Dolls*: The Dolls vary in age (20’s-30’s), and there are five of them (Dolls A, B, C, D & E) of varying height, weight, age, hair colour, style etc. (*for the purposes of the reading, we are seeking two female identifying actors to read for all of the Dolls*)
AUTHOR’S NOTES:
All characters except Mrs. O are to be dressed in only black & white and have a painted white face with dark points on their eyes and greyed lips in various shades.
Submissions may be made by email to: oddsandsodssubmissions@gmail.com
Please submit by Sunday, May 17th at 11:59pm, including in your email any relevant materials (headshot, resume, portfolio). Please also include a little information about yourself, and why this project interests you. Please also indicate which role(s) most interest you, or if you have any questions.
Cold read auditions (via Zoom) will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 19th, between 12-4 pm. Please indicate your availability along with your submission.
If you have any questions, drop us a line at info@swallowabicycle.com or call Mark Hopkins at 403.710.0093.
Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre is based in Moh’kins’tsis, the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) name for the place we now call Calgary, located in the Treaty 7 region and the traditional lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy (including the Siksika, Piikani and Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Wesley First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III. We’re grateful to the past, present and future stewards of this land.
