AUDITIONS for SummerWorks Festival Production
Aneemah’s Spot/The Base by Motion
Motion Live Productions and Cric Crac Collective
(Photo and info is from the 2011 RPS Workshop)
Aneemah’s Spot by Motion
Directed by Dian Marie Bridge
Aneemah’s Spot is
a 60-minute
stage play in three parts that mixes spoken word, movement and theatre.
It will be presented by the 2012 SummerWorks Festival from August 9th
to 19th at the Lower Ossington Theatre.
Audition dates: Friday June 1st 6pm-9pm (Audition slots of 5-7mins)
Deadline for Submission: Thursday May 31st 5pm
Audition Location: the Creation Lab at 720 Bathurst St. (south of Bloor)
Please submit: Headshot and Resume to: studio268@yahoo.ca
Actors will be contracted under Festival Co-op agreement. Members of
CAEA welcome as well as Spoken Word Performers. Only those considered
for an audition will be notified with further details.
Performance dates for Aneemah's Spot at Summer Works:
Thurs Aug 9 5pm
Sat Aug 11 12pm
Sun Aug 12 5pm
Tues Aug 14 7:30pm
Thurs Aug 16 10pm
Sat Aug 18 5pm
Rehearsals, begin in June and beginning of July according to avail. Then full rehearsals begin the last two weeks of July and the 1st week of August.
About the play:
Aneemah’s Spot: the Base is
a stylistic mix told using stealthy dialogue, rhyme and spoken word.
The funeral of “G” brings Aneemah and Wan together to mourn and share
their histories, as they are forced to let go of the past and choose how
they will navigate life, either apart or together from this moment on.
In the hours following the funeral, Aneemah and Wan struggle with G’s
untimely death and the violence that surrounds the tragedy, their
personal insecurities and questions that arise, and the secrets that
they expose to one another.
Character Breakdown
Wan: Young Black Man 22-25yrs
Wan
is an aspiring hip-hop artist, who is the last standing of his crew,
who are all either in prison or in the ground. He is street-wise and
contemplative.
He has grown up in Toronto. His emcee style is all about front, but his
slick beats/production work shows that he is deeply in love with his
music.
Aneemah: Young Black woman 23-26 yrs
Aneemah is in the first year of college and is a childhood friend of
both Wan and G. She is a fighter but chooses her battles and ammunition
haphazardly.
She
has been around the “crew” from back in the day. While time and
circumstance has drifted the crew apart, Aneemah has anchors herself in
writing and rhymes; to find her true voice behind her tough exterior.
Again:
Please submit: Headshot and Resume to: studio268@yahoo.ca
Actors will be contracted under Festival Co-op agreement. Members of CAEA welcome as well as Spoken Word Performers.
