PORNOGRAPHY by Simon Stephens

 

CASTING BREAKDOWN

 

Following the sell–out, critically acclaimed staging of Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money in 2011, Waking Exploits return with Simon Stephens’ beautiful yet chilling award winning play, Pornography.

Directed by Mathilde López, Waking Exploits take to the road on a national tour of Wales in April and May 2012.

 

SUMMARY

Pornography is the stark play by Simon Stephens that captures Britain as it crashes from the euphoria of Olympic dreams into the devastation of 7/7.

 

Written in response to the July 2005 attacks, the piece explores intimate and entwining journeys of lonely characters wrestling with an uncontrollable desire for the forbidden. Trapped in the same world, suffocated by the same heat wave, information overload and summer tune, their actions are somehow fuelled by the Capital’s fever for growth and auto-destruction.

 

We are looking to work with a versatile ensemble of performers with physical and music abilities (if possible).

 

Actors should have a South Wales base wherever possible.

 

PRODUCTION DETAILS

 

Company:               Waking Exploits

Producer:                Iain Goosey

Associate Producer: Michael Salmon

Director:                  Mathilde Lopez

 

Rehearsals:             26 March 2012 – 20 April 2012 (In Cardiff)

Production Dates:    National tour of Wales, 25 April 2012 – 19 May 2012

Casting Details:       Week commencing 20 February 2012

Deadline for submissions: 13 February 2012

 

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

                                                      

Role 1: Jason (Male)

Description: Young, East End schoolboy.

Age: 16 – 25

(White)

Agreement: Fee based contract in line with Equity agreements

 

Role 2: Sister / Student / Mother / Teacher (Female)

Description: Mother lost in an under-pressure world. Doubles as Sister in incestuous relationship.

Age: 25 – 35

(Mixed Race / Black / Asian / White)

Encouraging submissions from performers of a Mixed Race, Black and Asian background.

Agreement: Fee based contract in line with Equity agreements

 

Role 3: Bomber / Brother (Male)

Description: Brother involved in incestuous relationships. Doubles as a suicide bomber heading towards the London Underground.

Age: 25 – 35

(Mixed Race / Black / Asian / White)

Encouraging submissions from performers of a Mixed Race, Black and Asian background.

Agreement: Fee based contract in line with Equity agreements

 

Role 4: Old Woman (Female)

Description: A lively, active older woman who has lived her life in the heart of the City. 

Age: 50 – 70

(White / Asian)

Agreement: Fee based contract in line with Equity agreements

 

Role 5: Professor (Male)

Description: A lonely University Lecturer.

Age: 50- 60

(White)

Agreement: Fee based contract in line with Equity agreements

 

Please apply through Spotlight wherever possible; otherwise email CV’s to casting@wakingexploits.co.uk

 

This project is funded by the Arts Council of Wales and the Welsh Government via the National Lottery.