Casting Notices
All current audition opportunities are listed below.
Work, But This Time Like You Mean It
Work, But This Time
Like You Mean It
BY HONOR WEBSTER-MANNISON
WORLD PREMIERE
A CANBERRA YOUTH THEATRE COMMISSION
ABOUT THE PLAY
Winner of the 2022 Emerging Playwright Commission.
Neon lighting has dried out your eyeballs. The grease has permeated your sneakers. You think you can hear salt. A group of fast food workers are just trying to get through another shift. They’re underpaid and overworked and the customers keep coming and time is moving backwards and they need to stop working.
Work, But This Time Like You Mean It is a darkly surreal comedy about young people’s first experiences in the workplace. It’s about having a good work ethic on less-than-minimum wage. It’s about perseverance when you just want to curl up under the counter and cry. It’s an unhinged, deep-fryer-dive into deeply human relationships, forged within the most alienating of circumstances.
It’s fricken tasty.
ROLES
Cast of 9 emerging artists aged 15–25.
We encourage artists from diverse backgrounds to audition, including for roles where a character’s ethnic or cultural background, age, gender, sexuality or disability need not be specified.
AUDITIONS
Tuesday 11 June (5-9pm) by appointment. Gorman Arts Centre.
CALLBACKS
TBC.
REHEARSAL & SEASON SCHEDULE
Rehearsal Period: 18 June – 14 September 2024.
Rehearsals will be on Tuesday evenings and Saturdays.
Production Week: 17 – 19 September 2024 at The Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre.
Performance Season: 20 – 29 September 2024 at The Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre.
Cast must be available for all rehearsals their role is scheduled for, as well as all technical and dress rehearsals. This is an unpaid project.
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS
Actors must prepare one contemporary monologue of your choice of no more than two minutes in length.
To book an audition, fill out the online form. You will receive confirmation of your exact time via email by Wednesday 5 June.
We highly recommend you read the play prior to auditioning. Digital copies are not available, but you can read a hard copy of the play at our office. Please contact our office on 02 6248 5057 to arrange a time to read on site.
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Department of Responsible Adulting
Department of Responsible Adulting
CREATED BY CANBERRA YOUTH THEATRE
WORLD PREMIERE
A CANBERRA YOUTH THEATRE COMMISSION
ABOUT THE WORK
Your coffee tastes like Milo.
Your manager is sleeping off a sugar-crash.
How did your tie get stapled to your desk?
And why is everything sticky?
You arrive at work, the same as any other day – but something’s off. Your office, your team, your department have all been taken over by young people: welcome to The Department of
Responsible Adulting.
The leaders of tomorrow have run out of patience and are running the employee evaluation of a lifetime: How well do you think you’re adulting? Who put you in charge? What makes you so sure you’re even cut out for the job?
Commandeering a real office space in Canberra, this site-specific interactive performance reverses the power dynamic between adult and child, taking audiences into the belly of a new public service run entirely by children.
The Department of Responsible Adulting is an inventive, anarchic, immersive new work created by Canberra Youth Theatre that will promote intergenerational conversations and empower young people. Literally. They have lanyards.
ROLES
Large ensemble cast for school years 4 – 9.
We encourage artists from diverse backgrounds to audition, including for roles where a character’s ethnic or cultural background, age, gender, sexuality or disability need not be specified.
AUDITIONS
Saturday 11 May (9:30am-1:30pm) workshop audition session. Gorman Arts Centre.
REHEARSAL & SEASON SCHEDULE
Rehearsal Intensives:
15 June – 18 July 2024 (10am–4pm, Mon–Thur).
30 Sept – 11 October (10am–4pm, Mon–Thur).
Excluding Mon 7 Oct.
Production Week and Performance Season:
Between 19 – 30 October
Exact dates TBC
Cast must be available for all rehearsals their role is scheduled for, as well as all technical and dress rehearsals. This is an unpaid project.
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS
Young artists will participate in a workshop style audition which will also serve as a creative development for DoRA. There is no preparation for this workshop.
To book a place in the audition workshop, fill out the online form. You will receive confirmation of your exact time via email by Wednesday 8 May 7pm.
