52 Pick-up
written by TJ Dawe (fringe legend!) and Rita Bozi
Winner of the Chapters Award for Best Text at the 2000 Montréal Fringe Festival
About The Show
52 cards in a deck. 52 scenes about a couple's
relationship. The title of each scene is written on a
card. At the start of the show the deck is shuffled and
tossed in the air. The actors pick up the cards one at
a time, and that's the order of that performance's
scenes.
The story: very simple. They meet, the fall in love,
they fall out of love, they break up. But with the
concept you might see them break up before they
meet. You might see the reiteration of jokes that
haven't happened yet, or apologies for arguments
that haven't happened yet.
Every performance is replete with enough amazing
coincidences for audiences to constantly disbelieve
that the order really is random.
The odds of two performances of 52 Pick Up ever
having the scenes in the same order are
1 in 80
658
175 170 943 878 571 660 636 856 403 766 975 289
505 440 883 277 824 000 00 000 000. More or less.
Although this number is outrageously big, it is real.
The
play runs
approx 70 mins.
THE ROLE:
1 male, aged 25-45, to play oppisite Gemma.
Requires ability to be very quick
and nimble on
ones toes (and in one's mind), as the play's scenes
are in a different
order
every show!
AUDITION DATES*:
- Sat, Jan 12th, 12-3pm
- Sun, Jan 13th, 12-3pm
*Please call
to
book another time if you absolutely cannot make
either of these times!
AUDITION LOCATION:
Yet to be confirmed.
MAKE
AN APPOINTMENT:
Please contact Gemma at:
gemma@gemmawilcox.com or 720-212-5001 to
schedule your audition time.
WHAT
TO PREPARE:
A 2 min
contemporary monologue (if it is about
relationships that's great, but not necessary), and a
piece from
52 Pick-up that will be sent to you on
confirmation of
your audition.
REHEARSAL DATES:
Rehearsals will be in stages:
the first stage will be scheduled between January 15
and March 1st. Following a break we'll resume a 10
day intensive at the beginning of June. Finally we'll
rehearse between Aug 1-14th (just before the
Boulder Fringe), to refine, tech, etc.
There *might* be
some rehearsals scheduled in April, but that is yet to
be confirmed.
PRODUCTION DATES:
6 performances at the Boulder Fringe: August 14th -
25th (Plus potential future tour to Denver and other
cities)
About Gemma Wilcox
Gemma
Wilcox is a performer/director/playwright
from
London, UK, now based in Boulder, Colorado.
For Gemma's Theatre Bio and Credits
(including her UK credits, her run with The
Austin Shakespeare Company, and her acting,
writing and directing in Colorado), PLEASE
CLICK HERE
Contact
Gemma Wilcox
Performer, Director, Playwright
website: www.gemmawilcox.com
phone:
720-212-5001
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