AUDITION: CASTING CALL FOR ONE WOMAN SHOW, FOR MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL, 2010

MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL PRODUCTION OF JUNK ROOMS by Stephanie Briarwood. Directed by Liz Perry The Theatre HUSK September 2010 CASTING CALL: FEMALE ACTOR, LATE 20'S/EARLY 30'S for one woman show. Actors Fee: $800 This is a challenging role and the actor must be able to access the emotional fragility of the character. Explicit, poetic, courageous and ultimately up-lifting, Junk Rooms is the intimate story of Jenny Brotten's painful and disturbing drug addiction, peppered with hope, humanity and humour. SYNOPSIS "Jenny has been holed up in her apartment for weeks, or is it months! It's all fuzzy, fuzzy! She is trying to face the 'grubby truth'. Her mother has died, and she is now on her own.... except for Harry....who visits her once a fortnight. They both share a monogamous relationship with... the white train... Heroin. But Jenny is confronted by the demons of her past, her childhood, the loss of her mother, and questions for the first time, the choices she has made that have brought her to her current situation. How did this happen? Harry will be here any minute...it's all fuzzy, fuzzy!" Stephanie Briarwood with her words smashes the junkie stereotype with Junk Rooms by giving us Jenny Brotton. Jenny is one of the residents in a shitty apartment block for human trash. She looks like a junkie, tells you to your face she is a junkie, smells like a junkie! Her sleeve drags at the mucus from her nose with no ceremonial pretence. But,here's the twist. Jenny is a person - a person who once felt of value, whose choices have reduced what was once clearly a beautiful and uniquely imaginative woman to human rubbish. And there you are, in a room, with her, and all her 'junk'. But Junk Rooms is not just about heroin addiction. It is the story of 'addiction' of itself, of the insidious nature of addiction, how the world we live in today, has seduced us into a far greater addiction, that continues to pervade and make fragile, the human spirit, reflected in the inner psyche of Jenny. Junk Rooms seriously questions the nuclear family, the mother/child relationship, and the child at risk. DATES OF PERFORMANCE: Wed 22 September - Sunday 3 October @ 7:30pm. Plus 2 school matinee performances @ 2pm Wed 29th and Thurs 30th Sept. VENUE: The Theatre Husk 161a Heidelberg Road Northcote. AUDITIONS: Monday 26th July 1-5pm Richmond Library Meeting Room (2nd Level) 415 Church Street Richmond ACTORS FEE: $800 To register for an audition, please submit your Headshot and CV to: decotheatre@optusnet.com.au For more information, call the Director, Liz Perry, on 0422 075 187 The production is sponsored by Life Education Australia (Victoria)