IRON-OXIDE Ltd
is looking for Actors / Physical Performers for
CARGO
a new, culturally diverse large-scale outdoor co-production with Edinburgh Mela Festival
Actor / Performer Brief
We are looking for actors and performers of various ages, especially from Asian/African/Middle Eastern backgrounds to take part in CARGO.
The production will be non-text based and so actors and performers with keen physical skills and an enthusiasm for improvising are encouraged to get in touch. If you have musical, circus arts and/or street arts skills then, please also consider making contact.
Rehearsals: 21 June – 5 August
Performances: 6-22 August 2010 (Edinburgh Mela Festival / Edinburgh Fringe)
Contract period will be 9 weeks.
Director: Dougie Irvine
Producer: Chloë Dear
If you are interested could you please send us your CV, photo and a covering letter that details your experience of non-text based / improvised work further and any specific other skills that you have to: contact@iron-oxide.org
Please detail where you are based and your cultural / ethnic background – we are seeking to create a diverse cast for this production and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds.
Please forward these to us as soon as possible / by Monday 12 April.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries either by email or by phoning 0131-467 0664
We will notify everyone about audition calls by Monday 19 April.
Audition dates: 28-29 April in Scotland / 4 May in London
Further Information:
CARGO is a multi-disciplinary performance that creatively explores/ investigates that most timeless of creature(s) – the migrant. It is a show about immigration and emigration, adventurers and those who are exiled, conquerors and slaves, people with dreams who seek them out in other lands and people with nightmares who run to escape.
It is a show about the primal urge of man and woman to leave their country of origin for a myriad of reasons, whether it be for a better life, for a future for their children, to escape a past, to create a future, to find a new way of living, of being, to find… themselves. It is also a show about the act of making a place your home…
CARGO seeks to break open myths of those people who arrive on new shores. Migration has always happened, no-one person has been in the same place forever; we are all to some extent migrants, or the sons and daughters of migrants. Now, more than ever, we need to remember this and celebrate our common humanity, culture and creativity.
CARGO is an ambitious project featuring 10-12 high-calibre performers / musicians working on a large, dynamic outdoor set for festival audiences of 500-1,500. Colourful and visually arresting as well as theatrically developed, the performance will appeal to a broad range of people and to adults and children alike.
Designed to tour extensively within the UK and internationally, CARGO will premiere at the Edinburgh Mela 2010 followed by a short run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Further tour dates are currently being sought for 2011.
It will be directed by Dougie Irvine from award-winning Visible Fictions.
