Manual Cinema is casting actors for our new original show, entitled End of TV. We are looking for non-equity actors, who will act and also puppeteer throughout the show. Must have an interest puppet, object, or visual theater. Experience with puppetry is a plus but not required.

The show premieres at the New Haven Arts and Ideas Festival in June 2017. This is a paid opportunity (rehearsal stipend, touring fee, per diem while on tour).

AUDITION INFORMATION:
Individuals will be schedule for 10 minute audition slots on March 1 and March 2 between 10am and 5pm with puppetry callbacks on March 3 in the afternoon. The auditions will consist of short improvised scenes in shadow, as well as some movement and puppetry work.

SHOW DESCRIPTION:
The restless American consciousness, neon and glowing, pulsating through cable boxes across the country- began its deep fragmentation in 1969 when the proto internet went live for the first time in a dingy California research lab. Told through the lens of an episodic song cycle and set on the verge of the internet age, The End of TV weaves together the story of a QVC host (Anne), the creator of a cult meditation movement, The Jolly Green Giant's Valley, Ronald Reagan's 'The Bear', and the Myth of the American dream into a sui genre meditation on the interiority of our screens and the interiority of ourselves.

Told through an original score, live feed cameras, overhead projector shadow puppetry, and tableau, the piece takes as both its subject and it's metaphorical space the very first pervasive screen to dot the American landscape. The place where a troubled country first gazed through analog fuzz and into itself, or what it desperately wanted itself to be.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:
ENSEMBLE
Male-identifying. Mid 20s or 30s.
Will play a number of roles including the Jolly Green Giant, Ronald Reagan and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

FLO
Female identifying. Mid 20s to 40s.
A tough lady in her 80s who has alzheimer's. A former 1950s housewife and current QVC shopping addict. She defines herself through the role of mother and sees Anne, her favorite QVC host, as a daughter figure. Also plays a number of other roles.