Performers Needed for Theatre Audition "Talking With"

An insecure actress prepares in her dressing room while musing about the imbalanced relationship between audience and performer and the “self-lacerating exposure” of entertainment, wishing for a deeper connection with the people watching her.

A housewife reveals her escapist double-life as the Patchwork Girl from the Wizard of Oz books. Her maladaptive daydreaming transports her into the lands of Oz, but increasingly struggles to navigate between reality and fairytale.

A woman recounts the time leading up to her mother’s death and the lessons it gave her, learning to let go of each day with the drop of a clear glass marble.

A jittery young actress exhibits increasing desperation to be cast, going to violent and threatening lengths to secure her spotlight.

An ex-rodeo star reflects on the commercialization of rodeo that ended her career, and the monetization of passion.

A champion baton twirler relays her rise to glory and expresses the cathartic revelations of twirling, arguing to the audience the unparalleled spiritual connection of “throwing yourself up to God.”

An older woman responds to her progressive lonliness and questions of aging with the patterns and versatility of light, filling her home with lamps to conduct shadows.

A Pentecostal Holiness snake handler presents to the audience her demanding faith and the threat of being bit if you don’t have spirit.

A woman giving birth takes pride in her life’s tenacious abnormality through the pains of labour and a doctor “affronted by the extraordinary” of her little dragon.

A homeless woman dreaming of living in a McDonald’s balances humor with solemnity as she affirms plastic as God’s proof of eternity.

Having spent too long “unmarked by life,” a woman adorned in scars and tattoos declares the importance of living your life upon your skin- and her mission to help others’ lives truly start.