Director: Andrew Tomazos
Show Dates November 3-18
Audition Notice: Find Me by Olwen Wymark.
Venue: Gemco Community Theatre, Emerald
Dates: Sunday 13th August 3pm and - Monday 14th August 7:30pm
Information:
Olwen Wymark’s drama ‘Find Me’ based on a true story, follows the protagonist Verity Taylor as she is dealing with increasingly damaging mental health issues. Verity’s family becomes fractured in their search for answers from a health system, at the time, that does not have answers for Verity’s particular case and so doctors and other medical health practitioners find themselves unable to advise Verity’s family. Wymark has employed a technique known as ‘multi-characterisation’ wherein actors swap the main roles and work as an ensemble to ‘find the real Verity’ in this gripping, and emotional drama. The ensemble of 8 cast will rotate roles and play a myriad of characters.
Gemco Player’s production directed by Andrew Tomazos will follow the author’s original intent by casting an ensemble of 8 actors (5 female, and 3 male). Auditions will be group auditions held on Sunday 13th August, and Monday 14th August @ 7:30pm consisting of a brief improv inspired workshop and cold reads of excerpts from the play.
Book an audition:
You can book your audition by emailing the director at ajtomazos@gmail.com and a follow up confirmation email will follow with your time and what to prepare.
Casting
Andrew would be looking to cast according to the Author's original intention with a total cast of 8 - 5 Women, and 3 Men. The play Find Me is intended for the primary characters to have their parts shared by the cast using the device of multi-characterisation to try and find the real Verity - hence the relevance of the title Find Me. A quest to find the truth of Verity Taylor.
The cast would work as an ensemble and share the multitude of characters around.
Set/Prop/Costume
The play is written with the intent of using a bare stage and minimal props with characters passed between cast members sharing a singular motif in costuming. Andrew would change this by using cubes and box as a motif to represent the trappings Verity Taylor finds herself and her 'sitting outside the box' metaphor. His main idea is to have a rotating cube on stage that would maneuver each side representing a different place, while one scene is on stage the other side would face the wings and could be dressed accordingly preparing for the next scene.
Crew
Director Andrew Tomazos
Production Coordinator / Manager Jessica Horwell
Set Designer TBC
Lighting Designer TBC
Sound/ Music TBC