Seeking Actors for A New Staging of "The Weavers"

The exhausted anchor and moral compass of the community. Bäumert carries the memory of better times, and the slow erosion of dignity. Resigned, but pushed to survive the weight of experience. Sometimes the voice of collective suffering.

The thorn in the shoe. Jäger names the problem, tries to organize, believes head on resistance is necessary and possible. Jäger is smart, fierce, desperate—the body becomes the spark that ignites collective action - the most kinetically/physically demanding role. Catalysing change, and moving fluidly between intimate scenes and explosive, semi-choreographed revolt. High-tech action-film energy required. Caring and irreverent.

Human cost made visible. Emma embodies the personal catastrophe behind the political one—hunger, illness, degradation, love, loss. Pinned between intimate family scenes and surreal, multiplied environments where private moments turn out also to be for sale. Strong voice, great with text, and abile to hold stillness and chaos in one–and rock a wild post-punk cover song.

Bosses are people too. The apparatus of indifference. This actor rarely appears "on the ground" with the weavers—instead, he distances himself from everyone else, inhabiting the manufactured world: the office, the algorithm, the voice of authority. Able to describe self enrichment as an opportunity for someone else‘s contribution. Power's abstraction.

The most dynamic role. A performer who becomes the many—the crowd, the uprising, the girl who picks up the karaoke mic, the resistance, the machinery itself. Sometimes solo, sometimes a chorus of one, sometimes leading a chorus of many. One moment you're a soldier shooting protestors; the next, you're the protestor being shot; the next, you‘re the girl who picks up the karaoke mic and rocks a Madonna cover.