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Casting Call: Story Finders
Buxton Opera House in collaboration with Moving Stories Theatre Company is seeking to recruit a team of six story-finders for our forthcoming Moving Stories: Buxton project in May/June 2021. This is a paid opportunity, and we will provide full training and development to the team.
Moving Stories Theatre Company specialises in creating story-sharing events which aim to unearth stories that might otherwise go unheard, and promote the power of the human story to connect us as together. We are looking for a superbly dynamic and courageous team of actor/story-finders from Buxton and the surrounding areas to work on this project.
We are looking for individuals of all age, background and diversity, who are:
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Charismatic, engaging and approachable
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Possess excellent communication skills - active and empathetic listeners
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Confident and self-assured, to be able to engage and talk to local people from all walks of life and circumstance
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Open minded, open hearted, curious, interested in the human condition
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Able to listen, record and edit stories (some writing/devising/narrative experience very useful here)
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Some experience of verbatim or storytelling theatre
Moving Stories is committed to inclusive recruitment and equal opportunities
Overall dates:
Interviews Wednesday 19th/Thursday 20th May (on zoom)
Project week (including training): June 9th-14th (not including 13th) (In Buxton)
Fee: Equity/ITC weekly rate: £494
To apply: please send a CV, spotlight link, and an email expressing your reasons for interest in this project, and some background on you and your work. Please also include a short paragraph of a true story that you have heard and found to be interesting to you.
Please send to both Emma Gersch (Artistic Director) and Kitty Randle (Creative Director) Email: emma@movingstories.org.uk and kitty@movingstories.org.uk by the closing deadline of May 10th.