PAID CASTING CALL
‘DANNY ECHO’
A new play by Cody Daigle-Orians
We are back! all details below.
If you we’re offered the chance to re-live your lived one’s final day with them, would you take it?
Set in the near future, Danny Echo shows us what happens when young widow Rachel says yes.
Exploring the messy experience of grief with typical wit and honestly, Cody Daigle-Orians’ new play is our most ambitious product yet.
We are huge grateful to the brilliant Lawrence Batley Theatre for their support.
Audition Dates: May 5-6 (eveninigs) and May 7-8 (daytime), Huddersfield.
Peroformances: October 12-14, Lawrence Batley Theatre.
Rehearsal dates : TBC in the late August, September and october, likely to be mostly in Huddersfield.
What we are searching for:
Danny:
- Male 27-33 years old
- Any ethnicity
- Creative, funny, life and soul of the party. This caharacter is an Ai version of the dead Danny but is in no way played as a machine.
- This is a very challenging role for a patient actor, with repeated section of dialogue and action that are highly emotive and need to be identical each time they are played.
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