Work With Us!
The Role - The Storyteller
When?
Zoom rehearsal and exploration – mutual date to be agreed (to confirm)
Rehearsal date – 4th August in Castle Park (9am to 6pm on the day to be agreed)
Rehearsal and private tour – 12th August (9am to 6pm)
Public tours Performing: 13th and 14th August 2021 (9am to 6pm)
Please note the brackets indicate the time we will be working within for which we need you to be available. We wont be working every hour under the sun!!
Where?
In and around Colchester Castle Park, CO1 1UG
What?
A walking tour(s) of the pre existing Atom and Luna audio tales, and to experiment with what these might be. To listen to the audio tours we will be using, please visit our website at funnelwicklimb.com
Here is what we know:
The work will be outdoors. It will involve no physical contact with the general public, the performer will be distanced at all times.
We think:
The audience (in small groups of up to 30, more likely 15) will be listening to the tale in a set of headphones. The performer will take the audience on a physical journey while they listen. Perhaps stopping them, encouraging them to start again, producing props and so on.
The Character:
We suspect it will be loosely based on the main characters from The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps. They will be a quirky, slightly other-wordly, humanlike character who inhabits a site and relishes in revealing it’s, and their stories.
We are looking for:
A charismatic, Colchester or close to Colchester based performer
High improvisation and devising skills Good with the public
Playful, imaginative, curious
Interested in work for families and young people
The Performances:
The performer will deliver 5 lots of 15-20 minute tours each day for 2 days (total 10 walking tours) plus 2 test tours
The Process:
Rapid!
Initially online via Zoom working with director Scott Hurran (associate Director, Eastern Angles) and Project Creative Director Nina Hajiyianni (Artistic Director, Action Transport Theatre)
One day working in site with Scott in person on either 2nd or 4th August. A further rehearsal day and then two test tours on 12th August
Two days of walking tours 13th and 14th August
The Pay:
£500 (equivalent to 1 weeks work)
To Apply:
Submit CV and any copying note or e mail to Producer Matthew Linley on linleymatt@gmail.com (copying in Associate Producer Laura Marshall on lauramarshallcreative@gmail.com). Use the words Atom and Luna Performer in the title of the e mail
Deadline for Submissions:
Monday 26 July 2021 at 5pm
This element of The Chronicles of Atom and Luna has been supported by the Colchester BID. For more details about Funnelwick Limb see funnelwicklimb.com
