About 'My Mad Mum' Everyone knows Andy and everyone knows his mum. Everywhere he goes he hears people calling her names and whispering behind his back. When the new girl, Harper, arrives at school, they strike up a special friendship, but how long will it be before their home lives start to collide? My Mad Mum is commissioned by http://www.ourtime.org.uk - Our Time, a charity that supports children of parents with a mental illness. Set to a soundtrack of modern music, the audience joins the characters as they explore what it means to have a parent with mental ill health and how to support them and themselves. Roles The show is a two-hander and therefore includes a lot of multi-roling. Actors must be confident movers too. For both roles we are looking for actors who have recently graduated from theatre training, as the production will provide opportunities for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and we welcome applications for those who are keen to access and benefit from these. As the production will tour to schools, having experience of touring to or working with secondary school young people is preferable. With the content of the play exploring mental health, young carers and young adult carers, we encourage applications from people with a shared lived experience in any of these areas. Both roles need to be fulfilled by versatile, intelligent actors who are happy working with secondary school children. Role 1: Andy/ Dean/ Mr Fletcher ANDY: 16 year old finishing their GCSEs. Full of rage and tired of the way everyone talks about him. He desperately needs someone to talk to. His friendship with Harper is by far the most significant of his life. They enjoy making dance videos for social media, particularly the silliness of it (they are definitely not professionals). (Also plays arrogant, footballer Dean, and Mr Fletcher - an experienced, supportive teacher) Role 2: Harper/ Millie/Miss Knowles HARPER: 16 year old finishing their GCSEs. New to the area and worried about fitting in. An expert at keeping secrets. Her friendship with Andy is by far the most significant of her life. They enjoy making dance videos for social media, particularly the silliness of it (they are definitely not professionals). (Also plays kind-hearted & innocent Millie, and teacher Miss Knowles) Exciting paid opportunity for recent theatre graduates! Gain experience in a professional touring production while receiving bespoke career development. The project runs in 3 stages: Stage 1: 3-day R&D to explore the script and plan development, plus 5 months of workshops via our Opening Doors programme, with extras like headshots, showreel sessions, mentoring and casting. Stage 2: Rehearsals for My Mad Mum, working with organisations on themes of mental health and care. Stage 3: Tour to 8 Yorkshire schools and 2 public venues. -- Please note that we are not expecting the actors to look 16, just to be able to capture that energy. All actors must be 18 years of age or older. Due to training opportunities and rehearsals and tour being all based in York, actors must be from Yorkshire or have a base here that is easily commutable. Please send a self tape of the side in the casting breakdown. Send this along with your CV/spotlight (or similar) and a short statement as to why this role/production is of interest to you, to [email protected].Job Summary
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If you are shortlisted for an audition, we will contact you by Friday 12th September.
The auditions will be held in York on Wednesday 1st October. (please note: these will be group/workshop auditions)
We are not looking at your filming skills or set up, we just want to see/hear how you would approach the script, character, and singing. However you want to incorporate the lines of the character opposite you is up to you. We’d prefer self tapes to be sent as files, Youtube links (or similar) or cloud storage links (e.g. Gdrive) as platforms like WeTransfer have expiration dates and we would hate to miss out on downloading your self tape(s).