Madhouse

Production Company
Urthona
Casting Director(s): 
Nembulo Ningre
Union Status
Non-Union
Project Type
Theatre / Live Performance
Student Production
No
Compensation Details

This is a volunteer project.

Audition Date(s)
Feb. 9
Audition Location
Vancouver, BC
Shoot / Performance Date(s)
September
Shoot / Performance Location(s)
Vancouver, BC
Submission Deadline
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Submission Instructions

Send headshot, CV, and reel to nembulon@gmail.com

Project Synopsis
A new play that explores the devastating impact of the mental health industry (and of the violence of history) on a young woman.
Character 1
Yael
Age
20-30
Gender
Female
Description
A precocious and verbally gifted young woman. We see her from around age 13 to 22, passing through various phases: gentle, then verbally and physically abusive, then deeply injured.
Character 2
Gigi
Age
30-50
Gender
Female
Description
A brilliant, emotional, childishly pretty woman (in her mid-forties), whose intelligence wars with her deep compassion, faced with social forces she finds criminal. As she finds her voice in her mid-forties, advocating for her mentally ill daughter, she suffers the growing knowledge that men, and those who act like men, do not take her seriously.
Character 3
Arie
Age
30-50
Gender
Male
Description
An only child, pampered by a mother who survived the Holocaust, he feels he has sacrificed his gifts as a musician to raise a family. As a social worker in a hospital (in his mid-forties), he believes he is doing what he can to ease the endless cycle of unresolved trauma in the world.
Character 4
Lev
Age
20-30
Gender
Male
Description
Slightly younger than Yael, almost as sensitive, he watches at a distance as his parents turn her into a battleground.