Are you a caregiver in mental health or a consumer of mental health services?
Are you struggling with how the health system is becoming "mechanical"?
Would you like to explore creating a more patient-centered system?
If your answer to these questions is 'yes', then you have knowledge and a perspective that is valuable to this theatre production. Having a living knowledge of the issue is an essential criteria for participation; having acting experience is not. We need a diversity of perspectives to enrich this work.
Headlines Theatre, producer of the 2009 award winning community project after homelessness... , Us and Them (2010/11) and many others productions, is collaborating with numerous grassroots organizations on our 2013 main stage project: maladjusted.
We are looking for up to twenty people to participate in a 6-day Theatre for Living Workshop, exploring issues of mental health and stigmatization inside the health system. No acting experience is necessary. Just a willingness to be open about your life experiences and a desire to play! We invite YOU to join us in developing this exciting project!
(We're also looking for cast members...)
When: The workshop will take place from January 29 - February 3, 2013, 9am to 5pm.Where: Renegade Studio Productions, 127 East 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC.It is very important that you are able to commit to coming to every day all day of the workshop. Each workshop participant will be paid $600 for the week and lunch will be provided daily.
Are you interested in being a cast member?
Five members of the community workshop will create the main stage Interactive Theatre production along with Headlines' Artistic Director David Diamond, and a professional design team.
The community workshop will not be an audition. If you want to be considered for the cast, you will be asked to do some improvisation work with David during the initial interview. Please note, you don't have to be a professional actor to speak the language of theatre. But you do need to be willing to 'play'. If you are NOT interested in being part of the cast, indicate you are only interested in the workshop. Be courageous! Let us know if you are interested!
Cast will be paid $650 per week from January 29, 2013 to March 24, 2013.
Deadline for applications is November 23, 2012, 5pm
For more information go to Headlines's website:
http://headlinestheatre.com/present_work/maladjusted/workshop_maladjusted.htm