DIVINE THING: PROD TEAM CALL OUT (Director & Producers) <3

Divine Thing by Horatio Holloway, performed Week 7, Lent Term, Corpus Main, is looking for: - Co-Director  - Lead Producer  - Assistant Producer(s)  Please apply with approximately 200 words outlining your experience for and interest in the role by 28/11/26 at 9pm. This approximate is very approximate. It can be 10 or 1000 if you fancy x

Sasha and Zsofie became friends at First Adventures adventure park when they were ten. They promised they’d be friends forever. At 29, they’re tasked with selling the now abandoned adventure park site to Anemoia, an AI company who intend to build a data centre. However, Sasha's moral compass is tested when she meets an old classmate - Gabriel - still living there, who believes the land is inhabited by the echoes of their childhood selves. Her relationship with Zsofie becomes increasingly strained as she is pulled in different directions by her brutal pragmatism, Gabriel’s imagination, and her idealistic, underperforming friend Eamonn, all whilst drowning in her own suppressed desire to rediscover the curious and passionate person she was.

This play explores our present environmental and socio-political crises through the lens of childhood nostalgia; both as a mechanism weaponised by polluting corporations to disincentivise change and condition apathy, and as a positive instinct; a memory of a time where cynicism wasn’t lauded as a condition of maturity. It explores how nostalgia for a past - filled with fossil-fuel-induced creature comforts normalises unsustainable consumerism - makes us less tolerant of ‘inconvenient truths’, as well as other species and other ways of life, and allows for a destruction of nature and community, because everyone is atomised into their own individualised and simulated version of reality. Simultaneously, it questions whether such nostalgia is indicative of a fundamental lack in modern existence; of a truth we’ve lost to time and our adult ambitions; that humanity is not an entity separate from nature, but rather an inseparable part of it, with an inseparable fate.

DIRECTOR : The Director  would be an essential creative driving force for this production in its stage debut; there's ample opportunity for directorial exploration both in regard to character/performance and to genre/design. The play juxtaposes long, naturalistic, character-driven drama with deeply mystical interludes and interruptions; meshing the two together will represent a unique and evocative directorial challenge. If you have any more questions about the script or would the role will entail, please email hh705@cam.ac.uk.

PRODUCER : The Producer  will be responsible for organisation - a more administrative role - and marketing; a far more creative one. I am eager for the marketing strategy to replicate the AI generated content, the nostalgia-core, which Amenoia (the AI company in the script) are famed for creating. This includes a particular focus on autumnal / imagery, capturing both warmth and the holiday season and a sense of oncoming death. I would like the marketing strategy to intentionally overwhelm with this simulated content, without much, if any, context. It would be building on the sense of simulacrum; of a fake creation which is more immediately evocative, impactful and transfixing than the real thing it's re-creating/simulating, a heavily saturated aesthetic undercut with a discomforting liminality and detachment. Creating and marketing with this pitch in mind thus represents a significant task, but also an additional opportunity for content creation and creativity from within the production team, as well as a very alternative challenge re: strategic thinking / targeting.

ASSISTANT PRODUCER(S) : As the producer  is two roles for the prize of one, the AP role will help out the producers  in each facet, offering their skills, creativity and expertise were applicable whilst honing areas which they may want further training in!

Contact hh705@cam.ac.uk before 28th Nov 2026 00:00 for more details.