The Café

Produced by ITSAZOO Productions and Aphotic Theatre

Directed by Fay Nass and Chelsea Haberlin

Conceived by Fay Nass

Audition Date:

May 9th, 2022

Contract Dates:

Rehearsal: September 26th to October 11th, 2022

Performance: October 12th to 22nd, 2022 (possibly holdover until October 30th)

About the Companies:

ITSAZOO creates dynamic, immersive theatre events for daring audiences. Past productions include Straight White Men, Wet, The Pipeline Project (co-created with Savage Society), The Competition is Fierce, Killer Joe (Winner of the 2014 Jessie for Outstanding Production Small Theatre), and Mojo. www.itsazoo.org

Aphotic Theatre Society is committed to creating vital and innovative performances, with an emphasis on developing new plays written and/or created by women, women of color, and queer/QTPOC (Queer, Trans, People of Color). What distinguishes our mandate and approach is the fact that we prioritize who tells the story and what story they want to tell. www.aphotictheatre.org

About the Play:

The Café is a day-in-the-life exploration of the cultural mosaic of a Vancouver coffee shop with 7 different scenes by 9 different playwrights all set in a coffee shop and staged site specifically for a roving audience. Intimately sized audiences of 30 people per performance are encouraged to sit at or near one of seven "performance tables" and watch a play unfold mere inches away from them. Audience members are free to stay at one table and watch a scene reach its conclusion or wander around the coffee shop and experience other scenes - a narrative choose-your-own-adventure. The Café seeks to blur the line between art and reality by decreasing the proximity between actors and audience, welcoming them into a story - a conversation, an experience, a life - that may be at once completely familiar and totally foreign.

Casting for the Following Roles:

ALEX (They/He/She) 30s-50s. They are a parent trying to reconcile with their ex-partner. For this role we are seeking queer, trans, and non-binary performers.

DANNY (He/Him) 20s. Indigenous. He is on the Autism Spectrum and is struggling with an invasive sister and an abusive girlfriend.

BEA (She/Her) 20s-30s. Spanish. She is pitching an innovative proposal regarding the elderly care sector with comedic results. Requires a performer fluent in Spanish.

To submit, please send a headshot and resume and indicate the role(s) you are interested in to Paige Louter at auditions@... [auditions AT itsazoo DOT org] with the subject: "Cafe Audition Submission". Only those selected for an audition will be contacted.