Troyanne

CASTING CALLOUT

Company of Sirens are seeking an actor for the Welsh tour of Water Wars by Ian Rowlands.
The tour visits ten venues in Wales during March/April 2025.
Rehearse Cardiff inFebruary.
Looking for an English actor based in Wales aged 30/50. “Harry” is an officer in the invasion force.
The play is set in a future where England declares war on Wales for its water and the role is specifically English. The play is fully bi-lingual apart from this role.

Equity rates apply.
Deadline 30th September 2024.
Auditions/ Meetings w/c 7th October 2024
Contact: Chris @ [email protected]

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As I left the performance of Troyanne at Chapter a group of women who had been in the audience at Chapter's studio were tightening into a group hug, seeking mutual solace and comfort after the relentless pain of the play. This is an unflinching, deeply tragic play based on true stories of personal loss suffered as a result of America's epidemic of gun ownership and gunplay. Ian Rowlands has written a world-class drama – a steely, unflinching and entirely unsentimental work.

The quartet of actors (Caroline Bunce, Rebecca Knowles, Jannah Warlow and Dick Bradnum) totally and collectively delivered, offering cool performances of nuanced pain, rage against the Fates and world-whipped resignation, with the emotions constantly pressure-cooking on the inside, all under the assured direction of Chris Durnall. Boldly, and very baldly staged, employing the very minimum of props (but given implied space and the colour of birdsong courtesy of a very effective sound design by Dan Lawrence) this was and is Greek tragedy for gun-ridden times. Powerful. Challenging. And deeply, deeply wounding.

This production by Company of Sirens deserves to, and needs to be seen more widely. It is not a preacherly play, but it is most disarmingly powerful (pardoning the pun) in its examination of the painful and tragic consequences of lax gun control in a huge country.

Jon Gower

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