We’re looking for a Deaf performer for an upcoming show called The Acts, which will be at The Pit Theatre at the Barbican Centre in November 2024.
Fee: £2,100, plus hotels, transport, per diems and access support as required.
Contract: Freelance/self-employed
Location: Translation, remote; rehearsals & performances, London
Key Dates
Translation: 2 days
Rehearsals: 6 days, London
- 28 October – 2 November, 10am – 6pm
Show week: 6 days, The Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre
- Monday 4 – Thursday 7 November, 10am – 6pm
- Friday 8 & Saturday 9 November, 10am – 6pm, 7pm – 10pm
Number of shows: 2
The show will be filmed so it can be shown online for a limited time. It is likely this will be a free-to-view recording.
The Production
The Acts is a meta-theatrical piece which brings together individual works (each 15-20 mins long) from five of the UK’s most exciting disabled theatre makers & companies.
Join us inside the walls of a bustling but dysfunctional theatre, where four acts are hard at work on their latest productions: a solo show about love, joy, and cancer; a comedy about the ways neurodivergent people are expected to sell their stories for the stage; a theatrical adaptation of a short film entangling Greek mythology and the seaside pier; and a multisensory meditation on isolation and moon landings.
In a landscape of intense time pressures, and shoestring budgets, the performers are overstretched and undersupported. But can the fifth act – an absurdly inappropriate workplace wellness seminar solve all of their problems? Or do we just need an artistic revolution?
The Role
‘Director’
Deaf BSL signer – fluent/native. Any age, gender, ethnicity. Playing the role of a Director in a theatre. Must be good at devising and improvisation of scripts and performance within an active rehearsal space.
We anticipate the director being on stage between acts, having approx. 5-10 mins of performance material.
To Apply
Please send the below to team@cripticarts.org, including the name of the job you are applying for in the subject line:
- A self-tape of this script [LINK]
- A CV: up to 2 pages in written English or a 4 min video in BSL or spoken English
- A link to your Spotlight, if you have one
The deadline for applications is 12pm on Monday 1 July.
