1. Doctor Faustus (Easter Week 4) 2. The Middle Child: a sketch show (Easter Week 2) 3. MAGNUM (Easter Week 1) 4. Market Magic: Footlights Harry Porter Prize Winner 2019 (Easter Week 3) 5. In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (Easter Week 4) 6. Meddlin' Kids @ Edinburgh Fringe (Summer Vacation) 7. Techno Electra (Easter Week 2) 8. Final Cut (Easter Week 2) 9. The Summer House (Summer Vacation) 10. Il signor Bruschino: CUOS at the EdFringe 2019 (Summer Vacation) *************************************************** Doctor Faustus 19:00, Tue 21st May 2019 - Sat 25th May 2019 at Corpus Playroom Easter Week 4 Looking for: Lighting Designer Set Designer Stage Manager **APPLY FOR ROLES IN DOCTOR FAUSTUS** We are looking to select a team to help bring this lively play to life (lively in that not only is there blasphemy and damnation, but blasphemy and damnation accompanied by singing AND dancing)!! If interested, please email me (kp513) with: * How you envision your role in the production * Any ideas you may already have * Any prior experience (although this is by no means necessary!) We are hoping to begin bringing it all together over the holiday, and so we are looking for people willing to dedicate their time to the creative process over the next few weeks! Here is a link to the Pinterest board to give you an idea of the funky vibe we are aiming for: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/atlanta5891/doctor-faustus/ We look forward to hearing from you! Contact: kp513@cam.ac.uk Deadline for applications: Sunday 24th March, 23:59 *************************************************** The Middle Child: a sketch show 21:30, Tue 7th May 2019 - Sat 11th May 2019 at Corpus Playroom Easter Week 2 Looking for: Publicity Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Set Designer Photographer We are looking for some designers for this sketch show centred around family fun and drama. No experience needed and scroll down for role-specific info. Please shoot Anna (an only child!) zz354@cam.ac.uk a short email by 22th Friday including: - Why are you interested in the role and this show? - Anything else you want me to know (previous work/related experience/wacky fun facts/about the show...) - Any question you have! Publicity: We’ll complete most design during the holiday and only thing left for Easter term is some quick edit for our headshots so it’s a basically a stress free way to get involved! Lighting: Anything from a basic lights on/off to wacky fun effect will do for this sketch show. You’ll be doing the lighting get-in and the tech rehearsal on opening day and operate lighting change for every performance. Sound: Make a QLab(don’t worry if you haven’t heard about this) for all the transition/background music for the show and create some comedy magic. Set: Design will be minimum but effective. Bring us back to childhood memory and turn the playroom into a cozy warm family house. Photographer: We want someone to take headshots and rehearsal photos for our publicity. Tell me your initial ideas for headshots if you have some in mind. Contact: Anna zz354@cam.ac.uk Deadline for applications: Sunday 24th March, 23:59 *************************************************** MAGNUM 23:00, Wed 1st May 2019 - Sat 4th May 2019 at ADC Theatre Easter Week 1 Looking for: Set Designer/Builder Technician SET DESIGNER/BUILDER - This role will be a lot of fun!! You’ll be working with me to create an ultra-realistic uni bedroom scene, and helping me figure out the logistics of this on the ADC stage - think fairy-lights, photos of besties, dirty clothes on the floor!! you can really go crazy because the more realistic it feels the better! TECHNICIAN - this play is multimedia! there will be loads of cool projections of tinder bios, instagrams and text messages popping up behind the actors and I need someone to help me programme them on the ADC tech box. this is the most adventurous part of the play and would be great to have someone on board who knows the ADC tech box (but equally if you’re willing to learn that would be great!) for both of these roles, please message me (Fola) on Facebook and we can discuss more, talk in depth about the vision! no need to email anything formal xx Contact: Facebook (fola) Deadline for applications: Monday 25th March, 23:59 *************************************************** Footlights presents... Market Magic: Footlights Harry Porter Prize Winner 2019 23:00, Wed 15th May 2019 - Sat 18th May 2019 at ADC Theatre Easter Week 3 Looking for: Set Designer Publicity Designer *Ahem* This is a THEATRICAL SERVICES announcement. Would all superlative SET DESIGNERS and passionate PUBLICITY DESIGNERS please contact jh2120@cam.ac.uk to get involved with NEW COMEDY. Thank you. Fresh from a supermarket near you, *Market Magic* is the 2019 winner of the Footlights' Harry Porter Prize. Famous funny-person Alex Horne says it mixes the "chaos" of a shelf-stacker's internal monologue with "the feel of Alice in Wonderland". It's weird, it's bursting with value, and it will certainly be a challenge to stage. We'd love for you to be involved! If you’re interested in applying, please read the doc below and send your applications to jh2120@cam.ac.uk by MIDNIGHT on the 28th of March SET DESIGNERS: The script features elaborate descriptions, playing with and remixing a set based on the warehouse of a supermarket. As the play goes on, this is reused as a magical marketplace, a council room, a battleground for condiment-based chaos and more! This is an opportunity to test your imagination and go wild We'd like to know - Why are you interested in the show? - What previous experience have you had? - Could you describe in detail your ideas for the main warehouse set? How would you adapt it for its various uses? - What are your favourite and least favourite supermarket aesthetics? Why? PUBLICITY DESIGNERS We'd love to lean in to a twisted, magical-realist supermarket aesthetic. If that doesn't exist already, well, this is your chance to make it a thing. We'd like to know - Why are you interested in the show? - What previous experience have you had? - Having read the script, do you have any favourite images or moments you would like to use? - Do you have any ideas for the general design of the publicity? - What are your favourite and least favourite supermarket aesthetics? Why? Information and questions for applicants =>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ligm2kUwvLpnjUhv8OiFK7br6SBvAfRYfSeA0tZfXiM the SCRIPT =>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eMLX0ChuUOUZX5IQEmZynQzp-uY2BtcP And here’s a nifty little playlist to get you in the mood for a bit of retail therapy =>> https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VK800fXGL9xTPzR6fL93t 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠 Contact: jh2120@cam.ac.uk Deadline for applications: Thursday 28th March, 23:59 *************************************************** In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) 19:45, Tue 21st May 2019 - Sat 25th May 2019 at ADC Theatre Easter Week 4 Looking for: Technical Director Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Lighting Designer Set Designer Costume Designer Publicity Designer Photographer Applications are now open for In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) prod team!! This is such an amazing and special play and you KNOW you want to be involved!! Check out our pinterest : https://www.pinterest.ch/alwaysalex301/in-the-next-room-or-the-vibrator-play/?lp=true And send over apps with: Why you want to be involved Any ideas you have for the role Any previous experience (NONE NECESSARY!!) Send applications and any questions you may have to me and Alex xxx Contact: ig346@cam.ac.uk (Isobel) amr79@cam.ac.uk (Alex) Deadline for applications: Saturday 30th March *************************************************** Meddlin' Kids @ Edinburgh Fringe 11:30, Thu 1st August 2019 - Tue 27th August 2019 at Gilded Balloon: Sportsmans Summer Vacation Looking for: Technician Stage Manager ****Meddlin' Kids**** is looking for a Technician and Stage Manager! This will be a fantastic opportunity to get on board of an exciting and creative project at the Fringe at a brilliant venue! We're looking for an experienced, committed and KIND TD and SM to bring this piece of devised comedy theatre to life this August and to be a part of a fun team! It'll be an intense but highly rewarding month ~ please apply !!! Please send in an application detailing - your experience with either role - what excites you about the project - availability in July and August Many thanks Will and the GANG Contact: wlb24@cam.ac.uk Deadline for applications: Saturday 30th March, 22:00 *************************************************** Techno Electra 19:00, Tue 7th May 2019 - Sat 11th May 2019 at Corpus Playroom Easter Week 2 Looking for: Lighting Designer Set Designer Costume Designer Stage Manager Publicity Designer Photographer LIGHTING DESIGNER - lighting is v important in this show so it's a great opportunity for some original and creative design ! SET DESIGNER - minimal set, we don't have particular ideas about this so you'd get quite a bit of creative freedom COSTUME DESIGNER - we're looking for a mix of vintage streetwear and more obviously classical clothes, but open to any and all creative suggestions !! STAGE MANAGER - we need someone organised and dedicated to help bring this fresh new show to life! PUBLICITY DESIGNER - ideally we want to get the poster design done over the holidays, so this should be a relatively low-stress job - we just want something sleek and contemporary but apart from that are open to any suggestions ! PHOTOGRAPHER - someone willing to take some cool headshots of the cast, as well as rehearsal and general publicity photos - fab if you have a camera but no problem if not, we can use mine! No experience necessary to apply for ANY of these roles - all we want is enthusiasm !! In your application,please include: - Why you're interested in the role/this show - Any initial ideas ideas you might have - Any experience (but none needed) - Any questions you have Can't wait to hear from you !! Contact: eig25@cam.ac.uk Deadline for applications: Sunday 31st March, 23:30 *************************************************** Final Cut 09:30, Mon 6th May 2019 at Corpus Playroom Easter Week 2 Looking for: Technician For Final Cut: A Comedy Show One Night Stand, 6Th May At Corpus Playroom. This Person Will Then Go On To Be The Technician For Final Cut: A Comedy Show At The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2019. Final Cut are looking for a lighting designer/technical director for the Edinburgh Fringe this August! We are a comedy show written by former Footlights John Tothill and James Coward which was first performed in Cambridge last year. This will be an amazing opportunity to be at the Fringe for the whole month working in a prestigious venue with experienced comedians – and, most of all, lovely people! Please tell us why we should pick you to be our technician! Send us an email at emilyzmahon@gmail.com telling us: •What you would bring to the team. •Why you want to work on Final Cut. •What lighting design and general tech experience you have. •Your availability from now until the end of August. Please email emilyzmahon@gmail.com to apply! After you apply, I might organise a meeting to discuss your role further. You will be introduced to the company when the show is performed in Cambridge on the 6th May. Here is our Facebook page so you can take a look: https://www.facebook.com/finalcutcomedy/ Contact: emilyzmahon@gmail.com Deadline for applications: Wednesday 3rd April *************************************************** The Summer House 19:45, Tue 23rd July 2019 - Sat 27th July 2019 at ADC Theatre Summer Vacation Looking for: Sound Designer Sound Operator Master Carpenter Contact: richard@twistedwillowtheatre.com Deadline for applications: Wednesday 3rd April *************************************************** CUOS presents... Il signor Bruschino: CUOS at the EdFringe 2019 14:30, Mon 5th August 2019 - Sat 10th August 2019 at St Cuthbert's Church Eh1 2EP Summer Vacation Looking for: Set Designer Costume Designer Photographer Il signor Bruschino is looking for a set designer, costume designer and photographer to bring the look of the show to life! This is a great opportunity to work with a brilliant team to bring a rarely-performed opera into the 21st century, and have your designs exhibited in show in both Cambridge and Edinburgh. Interested applicants should get in touch with the show's producer, Lucy Roberts, at lr454@cam.ac.uk, and should send any questions about the roles to the same email address. - Set Designers - We are looking for creative and innovative people to work with the directors to design a set that is evocative and interesting whilst being portable and not detracting from the surroundings of our Edinburgh venue, St Cuthbert's church. Please apply with any prior experience of both set design and opera (although none necessary!) and any ideas you might have for the show (links to information about it below). - Costume Designer - Possibly the most important role of all for an Edinburgh show, we are looking for someone with strong ideas to work with our director and be proactive in designing and sourcing costumes for our cast. Please apply with any prior experience of costume design and opera (although none necessary!) and any ideas you might have for the show (links to information about it below). - Photographer - We are looking for a photographer to take publicity pictures of both our rehearsals and our Cambridge preview show. Please apply with any experience, a portfolio of your work and any thoughts or feelings you have towards opera as an art form! More info about our show can be found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1F8Do58a1aB5q-ZlhbCRxnkdqhM4v_gRw A video of a production (sadly not ours) can be found here: https://youtu.be/h3TrhHDdPjQ Please get in touch with Lucy Roberts at lr454@cam.ac.uk with any applications or questions! We look forward to hearing from you! Contact: lr454@cam.ac.uk Deadline for applications: Saturday 20th April