Cast Callout: Deathwatch by Jean Genet

Directed by Zoe Le Marinel and Jeremy Jenkins

Produced by Rubba Fatima and Alex Ma

Show Dates: 24 April 2024 - 4 May 2024

Auditions are now open for Slot 4’s Deathwatch- an absurdist play performed in drag!

Deathwatch is an absurdist play by French playwright Jean Genet, set in a prison, revolving around the power struggle between three prisoners- Maurice, Jules LeFranc and Green Eyes- as they express their admiration, jealousy, desire and inevitably their violence. We will be staging the production in drag, meaning that our cast will be working with us and the costume department to create a drag king persona inspired by and representing each character. This play is morbid, seedy, intensely homoerotic and outrageously camp. The style of acting will be over-the-top, confident, satirical and absurd, so if that’s your thing- you’re in the right place.

Roles:

Green Eyes, a murderer.

Jules LeFranc, a jewel thief.

Maurice, a juvenile delinquent.

The Guard.

CONTENT WARNINGS: Sexual References, Mild Coarse Language, Misogyny and Sexist, Language, Themes and References to Death, Violence, Onstage Depiction of Murder.

Auditions will run from the 29th of Feb to the 6th of March.

Callbacks running 7th & 8th of March. 

Table read estimated on Sunday 10th of March.

Audition Pack: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10V2ZOgrc_niK-SJsMf72bEmf3H_fThM1fvtoiuRD6KA/edit?usp=sharing 

Audition Form: https://forms.gle/GdzD5t2E2YMXeLZJ8 

For any questions, feel free to email us at deathwatchsuds@gmail.com 

Acknowledgment of Country

SUDS acknowledges that the University of Sydney and the Cellar Theatre reside on stolen land; the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. As a society that exists to tell stories, it is important to acknowledge that stories were being told on this land for thousands of years before British colonisation.

SUDS pays respect to elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded – Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.