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!)