ABOUT POPCORN AUDITIONS

POPCORN AUDITIONS – 5th February 1pm ONSTAGE 15th – 22nd April 2023
Timaru, here comes Ben Elton’s Popcorn.

Auditions will be for three things:
1. Popcorn – the Show.
2. Popcorn – the film segment
3. Popcorn Live – something a bit different requiring those who love a bit of improv.

Synopsis – Set in the Beverly Hills home of Oscar winning movie director Bruce Delamitri, Popcorn is a satirical comedy thriller with the firepower of a hit squad. When notorious killers Wayne and Scout interrupt Bruce’s passionate introduction to Brooke Daniels, a nude model and actress, they want more than an autograph from their cinematic idol. Wayne intends to use Bruce’s “art” as justification for murder. Events are disrupted by the arrival of Bruce’s soon to be ex wife and spoiled teenage daughter and his producer. However, Wayne means to succeed whatever the cost.

This is black comedy, a powerful, edgy, challenging piece of theatre. It’ll be great fun.

Character Descriptions
Karl Brezner – Arrogant Hollywood Producer.
Bruce Delamitri – Hollywood director of violent action movies. Brash, confident.
Velvet Delamitri – Bruce and Farrah’s daughter. A youthful early 20’s to be cast as this 15 year old Hollywood princess.
Farrah Delamitri – Bruce’s soon-to-be ex-wife. Self obsessed.
Wayne Hudson – Southern American redneck. Highly intelligent. Dangerous.
Scout – Wayne’s partner-in-crime and life. Devoted to Wayne. Fragile and unstable.
Brooke Daniels – Hollywood starlet looking for her big break. Confident. Feisty.
Kirsten and Bill – Film recordist and sound techs. Small roles coming in towards the end. Need to be confident enough to appear in their underwear on stage.

Popcorn Live.
Popcorn the play is set around the time Bruce Delamitri wins an Oscar for his movie Ordinary Americans. Popcorn Live is to be performed around the incoming audiences, whether we get 5 in the audience or a full house. This is set at the Premiere of Ordinary Americans and the foyer will be dressed accordingly. Karl, Bruce, Brooke (possibly Velvet and Farrah) will mingle as they wait for the start of this important night. Along with them will be Karl and Bruce’s minder(s), journos, photographers, fans wanting autographs and selfies, people protesting the movie’s violence and the two young leads of Ordinary Americans – Kurt Kidman and Suzanne Schaefer. Apart from a couple of hours over a couple of weekends, there will be no rehearsals for this. I will provide some guidelines around performance and lines (all ad-libbed). Kurt and Suzanne will be required for photographs to be used for posters, etc. If ad-lib is your thing, this will be for you. Depending on who auditions will depend on the size of the cast for this.

Film Segment
This is usually done on stage as part of Popcorn the show. A short segment will be filmed on Stafford Street end of February for the multi-media tech. It will require Wayne and Scout and as many passer-bys as we can get. It will show gun violence and no one under the age of 18 will be cast. One long evenings’ work should knock this out, but prepare for two. No one apart from Wayne and Scout will have learned dialogue, the rest we’ll ad-lib on the fly. Plenty of screaming and fear required!

Enquiries TJ 021 189 2099