Auditions Audition for Fireworks Rehearsal Dates: May 17 and May 18, 2025 Show dates: May 21 – May 23 Venue: Rangshala Studio, 251 Ave Pins O, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1R6 The deadline to submit is April 4, 2025 at 12pm through the form below. Audition Date: April 14th & 15th remote audition (Monologue), no callbacks Montreal-based actors only. This is an Equity staged reading. The Fireworks Playwrights’ Mentorship Program is a 6-month playwriting intensive where writers develop new scripts from the idea stage into a complete first draft to be presented in a reading at the end of the unit. This May, eleven writers will showcase their new scripts-in-progress in front of a live audience. We are looking for around 15 actors for all readings. Teesri’s Casting and Diversity Statements Teesri Duniya Theatre was founded on the principles of socially engaged work and is committed to being an inclusive and brave space for artists. If you are experiencing difficulties or challenges accessing this submission and/or fulfilling its requirements, please let us know and we will do what we can to provide you with assistance. Plays: Just Landed by Hiba Sleiman is a daring experimental play. It tells the story of a young girl who has been traveling for too long and has lost herself along the way. She finds herself in a strange barren place where she needs to abide by the rules in order to escape and find freedom. Characters:Girl – Young girl in her 20s. Middle EasternKeeper – Man, 50s. Any ethnicity except Middle Eastern or Caucasian. Native, BlackGia – Woman in the purple shirt, 60s (open to ages 40-60 if necessary). Caucasian, Middle EasternMaamoun – Man 40s-50s. Any ethnicity – Native, HispanicNour – Woman, appears in video projection – lines to be read offstage An Uncomfortable Dinner Party by Alice Siregar is a dramatic and darkly comedic exploration of interpersonal issues that arise in a trans person’s life as she has to deal with family members that don’t quite understand her experience. Characters:Natalie – Ethnicity not specifiedViolet – Ethnicity not specified A darkly comedic 4-hander, At Our Feet by Elly Pond explores the absurdities of climate change through a series of 20 quirky scenes, performed in a delightful jumble that leaves audiences both entertained and contemplative. Characters:Meena – Ethnicity not specifiedLeo – Ethnicity not specifiedCeleste – Ethnicity not specifiedAri – Ethnicity not specified A seriocomic one-act play, Fight Flight Freeze by Lily Chang incorporates nonlinear storytelling and metafictional elements to present the (mis)communications, friendship, and committed partnership between two very different people who meet on a flight leaving Montreal. Utilizing a singular primary setting of the interiors of a plane, the play jumps to different time points and narrative spaces to explore how Andy and Léo, from meeting serendipitously on a flight to carving out a decade of a life together, navigate changing gender identities and sexualities, (non)conformity to social norms, racism and allyship, mental illness, and a clash of values based on language. Characters:Andy (F, Chinese-Canadian)Léo (M, white French-Canadian, FR/EN bilingual, autistic)Flight Attendant/Captain on Intercom (Gender/ethnicity not specified, FR/EN bilingual) Dylan’s Song by Anna Morreale is a surreal, multidisciplinary, queer epic. After a big night out, rumoured to be this party-girl’s last hurrah, Dylan prepares to tell you her story. Joined on stage by a chorus known as ‘The Bodies’, Dylan’s memories unravel faster than she can handle, exposing a darker side to her desire. Characters:Dylan – Ethnicity not specifiedBodies – 3 different actors, Ethnicity not specified Centering on Asian-diaspora stories, On the Other Edge of the World by Sabah Surat is a slice-of-life play that follows a group of art and design undergraduates studying with a newly minted instructor. Their curriculum unexpectedly takes them all over the world. Jodha, early 20s, South Asian with Muslim heritageEden, early 20s, West Asian with Muslim heritageEurydice, early 20s, open Asian-diaspora ethnicityBasil, early 20s, open Asian-diaspora ethnicityBriar, late 30s/40s, open Asian-diaspora ethnicityLyra, late 30s/40s, open BIPOC/Asian-diaspora ethnicity Gone Fishing by Lumi Mitton is a play about water, birds, oil, and the dead. Run through with mourning the destruction of the natural world, a group of Nova Scotian friends seek exile out on the Atlantic Ocean. A loose reimagining of Moby Dick, the main theme of this poignant and unnerving play is extinction, an homage to the countless species that are now dead, gone, extinct. And those that will soon join them. Characters:Ishmael: White, ManAhab: White, ManDawson: Native, ManDuck: Filipino, Non-binary/AnyRosemary: Any, Woman In Kind by Umaia Perlin two performance artists are confronted with the precarity and mortality of their collaboration. Their extreme and often violent body of work has moulded them both physically and spiritually, but their imperative to break boundaries is a dangerous one. As they consider their relationship and shared legacy, they realize that their failed attempt to invite a third collaborator has destroyed and renewed their practice in ways they now struggle to define. Characters:Khorsid (Eighties) – Ethnicity not specifiedAndra (Sixties) – Ethnicity not specified Set in Oslo in the winter of 2023, Iced Oranges by Hazem Ghaith tells the story of Mazin, a Palestinian refugee, and Waleed a Palestinian citizen of Israel, as they navigate exile and love under the weight of the historic events of 1948. Through intimate conversation and peotic reflections, the play dissects the complex realities of the queer Palestinian existence Characters (Preferably Arabic speakers):Mazin – Middle Eastern maleWaleed – Middle Eastern male Try Harder: A Suicidal Puppet Tragedy by Rachel Renaud is a sarcastic semi-auto-biographical play set in an ER exploring the relationship between an abusive mother and her suicidal child as it evolves throughout time. Characters:Daughter (non-binary) – Ethnicity not specifiedDaughter Puppet (played by the same actor as Mother) – Ethnicity not specifiedMother – Ethnicity not specifiedMother Puppet (played by the same actor as Daughter) – Ethnicity not specified AUDITION REQUIREMENTS Please prepare a contempary Canadian monologue of your choosing Apply Today Please fill out the form by April 4, 2025 at 12pm. If you have any questions, send an email to intern@teesriduniyatheatre.com. ABOUT Teesri Duniya Theatre: Teesri Duniya Theatre is an intercultural theatre company dedicated to producing politically relevant plays that encourage positive change. Our plays foster critical thinking, address injustices, generate cross-cultural dialogue, create opportunities and enhance the representation of diverse, racialized and marginalized artists. We infuse art with social responsibility with a decolonizing consciousness.