Filmed Table Read for Drowning In The Sound
Opportunity Overview
The Midnight Florists are seeking: 1 x Male Presenting, 1 x Female Presenting person, and 1 x Gender Non-Specific person for a filmed table read of our work Drowning In The Sound. This footage will be used in-house as a development tool for the ongoing project and photographs and short clips from the table read may be used on social media.
The role is paid at national living wage (£10.42 per hour) with a duration of roughly three hours for a total of £31.26pp. This is a project about survivors of domestic, coercive, and sexual violence and applicants must be comfortable with this.
We particularly welcome applicants from persons: of the global majority; with additional access needs; and/or survivors of coercive and domestic sexual violence who are in the later stages of their recovery journey.
Opportunity Timeline
- Saturday 3rd February – Applications Open & Audition Materials Sent to Applicants
- Monday 19th February – Applications Close
- Tuesday 20th February – Applicants Contacted & Script Delivered to Successful Applicants
- Tuesday 27th February – Filming from 17:00 – 20:00 (Times negotiable) at The University of Chichester
- Friday 1st March – Payment Made to Applicant on Receipt of Invoice.
The Project
Drowning In The Sound is a reperformance of survival, an examination not of the act but the consequence, not the fall but the rise. A gathering of voices that speak out through surrogate mouths, to protect those unable to speak out. Collating together over sixty hours of verbatim recordings and interviews, gifted by survivors of domestic and sexual abuse,
Drowning in The Sound tells, in their own words the very real stories of “Alex” and “Sarah” who were assaulted in the same month of the New York Times article that would bring worldwide attention not just to the #MeToo movement, and in our current version of the show, “Maisie” a young student navigating the aftermath of a coercively abusive relationship.
The Roles (You Can apply for More than One)
1 x Male Presenting (18+) reading The Director/ Interviewer/ Therapist.
The Director is a representation of Andrew Lee as the director of the show, they Shepard the events on stage. The Interviewer is a representation of Andrew Lee when Interviewing both “Sarah” in November 2018 and “Maisie” in November 2023 and January 2024. The Therapist is a representation of “Alex”’s therapist in sessions recorded from September 2018 – March 2019
1 x Female Presenting (18+) reading “Sarah”.
“Sarah” is a university student in their early 20’s. She is a survivor of coercive sexual violence by their boarding schoolteacher.
1 x Gender non-specific (18+) reading the stage directions.
Reading Titles, stage directions, notes, and asides.
TO apply
Please sends expression of interest via Email.