Algonquin Highway
Location: Toronto ON
Type: Theater
17 Syllables Theatre Company requests submissions from actors for the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival production of Algonquin Highway, written and directed by Wyatt Lamoureux. 17 Syllables Theatre Company operates on a profit-share basis.
Synopsis: Close childhood friends, Alex and Nic, haven’t seen or heard from each other in five years. One fall day, out of the blue, Nic calls, so Alex drives from Toronto to pick up Nic at the Ottawa airport. After a flat tire leaves them stranded on a back road in Algonquin Park they have no choice but to talk to each other about their hurts and recent traumas, their past together and apart, and what’s happened in the time since Nic left as she and returned as he. Not the reunion Alex was expecting. Will it be the strength of their old relationship or these new changes that determines the survival of their friendship, and begins the healing for them both?
Resumes will be accepted until midnight, Thursday, March 23. Auditions will be held Saturday, March 25, 2017, from 12noon to 3pm, at #215 – 401 Richmond St, Toronto.
Send resume and headshot to wyatt.lamoureux@gmail.com. Clearly indicate the role you wish to audition for. We are particularly interested in actor submissions from the LGBTQ and indigenous communities.
Roles:
1. Alex – late-20s, indigenous, female, lesbian. Raised in the big city, Alex has only recently rediscovered her heritage. She is a working actor.
2. Nic – late-20s, transmale. Raised in the big city, Nic is a smartass, and an outgoing personality. He is a theatre technician.
Actors should prepare a two-minute monologue, and be ready to cold-read from the script, if requested.
Production dates: Fringe Festival, July 5-16, 2017. Further production dates – tbd.
Rehearsal city/venues, dates and times – tbd.
Payment: Other
Profit share
City or Location of call: Toronto ON
Please submit to: wyatt.lamoureux@gmail.com by 2017-03-23
This casting notice was posted by: 17 Syllables Theatre Company
