GREYJOY (Blackstar Productions)
Venue/Date of Show: Bidding Pilch HT6
Content Warnings: Despite GREYJOY’S overall light tone, the play primarily concerns hospitals and healthcare, including end of life care, and revolves around extended discussions of illness and death, particularly of family members/parents. The following content warnings also apply: Discussions and descriptions of mental health issues, including suicidal ideation and self-harming behaviours (as part of a medical exam) Depictions of mania and related behaviours Brief discussion of sexual assault Brief mentions of vomit/emesis Misogyny Brief strong language Discussion of grief and anticipatory grief Frequent bad wordplay and puns, bad Austrian/Essex accents
Deadline: noon, Sunday 2nd November
Link to Further Information/Sign Up Form: https://forms.gle/uBHdMCvzy1ugVWvF9
BLACKSTAR PRODUCTIONS is back in business with another piece of new writing, this time by myself (hello!). GREYJOY is a dark comedy about medical exams, anticipatory grief and bad coffee. It's weird and wacky and wonderful and I'm so hype to get people on board!
GREYJOY centres around Cait, an actor working as a mock patient, and Mina, a disillusioned examiner. It also includes five doctors, who - GET THIS! - cold read. WHAT!? That's right baby, Manwatching style, White Rabbit Red Rabbit style. It's going to be something new and sharp and fun (if I do say so myself) so why not get involved!
We are looking for the following icons to join us:
Assistant director - help us make the play come to life!
Producer - hospital funding is important!
Assistant producer - ...and arts funding is also important.
Set designer - you hereby have the opportunity to make the Pilch look like a very weird and slightly uncanny hospital room. White walls in a black box? Hmm...
Costume designer - there is a specific opportunity in this show for a very flamboyant and colourful costume. The bigger the better. Gimme your best shot.
Lighting - just because it's set in a hospital doesn't mean the lighting has to be Like That. Opportunities for weird and wonderful colours, effects and the like!
Sound - a bell rings many many times in this play. Please help me make that not annoying.
Marketing - because what's everyone's favourite hospital waiting room activity? Scrolling through Instagram, correct. Help us look amaze, both in our social media posts and in student publications!
Welfare - GREYJOY deals with some pretty heavy stuff, but it's all for fun at the end of the day! Come and help us make a good environment to work/play in. We'll give you a snack budget.
If you wish to join the crew, please fill in the application form attached above by noon, Sunday 2nd November. If you have any questions or qualms, please don't hesitate to contact me, either on Facebook, or by email (rebecca.harper@wadham.ox.ac.uk).
love you!
Rebecca