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SYNOPSIS

Breathe in deep, can ya smell it? Smell of bus seats. Vinyl and sweat. Nothing nowhere beats that. See the yellow bus? That’s where we was born. Bustown. A junked paradise of worn tyres and scrap metal, far away from the land of Otherness.

Enjoying the safety of their junkyard town, the people of Bustown happily wait for The Driver to return. But Axel and Cressida can’t stop thinking about Otherness. With a chain of keys in close reach, how long will they continue to wait?

A vibrant exploration of small town life, Bustown questions the desperate move young people make to the city and the impact it has on the people and places they leave behind.

Style: Absurdist.

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

6 females, 4 males, and 3 punkbirds who can be male or female.

Older Generation

SYLVIA

Top Dog, Cressida’s Mom, she is sick, she gets around on wheels

FAITH

Axel & Torana’s Mom

JUDE

Corolla’s Mom

Younger Generation

CRESSIDA

Sylvia’s daughter, “she has looks,” is in love with Axel

TORANA

Faith’s daughter, Axel’s sister.

AXEL

In love with Cressida, Faith’s son, Torana’s brother,  a “stunner”

COROLLA

Faith’s daughter, youngest female in Bustown

Others

CEDRIC

Mute, Stranger to Bustown who has made his home there

STRANGER

Assumes the identity of the Driver, a young man

PUNKBIRD X

Narrator, crosses over into Bustown and the Otherness

PUNKBIRD Y

Narrator, crosses over into Bustown and the Otherness

PUNKBIRD Z

Narrator, crosses over into Bustown and the Otherness

AUDITION INFO

Read the Play! Available in McCain 109. Australian playwright Lachlan Philpott will be in residence during rehearsals and will be adapting the play for an American audience.

Audition: Movement/improv work for groups of 10, be familiar with the “remembering” in the play; know which character fits you best…READ THE PLAY.

Callbacks: Cold reading sides from the play

FIRST REHEARSAL

Jan. 5, 7-9PM

(Please note this is during winter break!)