Assistant Stage Manager Required

Introduction

Rawlife require the services of a professional and competent assistant stage manager for its production of Pearse Elliott's 'The Sword & The Sand'

Dates

Rehearsal Period: Mon 09/04/18 - Sun 29th
NI Tour Tue 1/5/18 - Sun 6/5/18
Lyric Belfast Tue 08/05/18 - Sun 27/05/18 (excluding Mondays)

Job Description

You will assist the stage manager to coordinate all aspects of a theatre company to ensure the successful delivery of the performance. In order to do this, you must have excellent people management skills.

You will assist the stage manager to manage rehearsals, actors, technicians, props and costume fittings, and liaise with front-of-house staff and the director.

You'll need to have a good understanding of both the technical and artistic elements of a performance.

You will be involved from the rehearsal stage through to the live performances, where you will be on hand to deal with any emergencies or issues that may hinder the show.

Responsibilities

  • help the Stage Manager tape out the floorplan.
  • help the Stage Manager with any needed clerical help.
  • procure props, furniture and set dressings and assist in set construction
  • arrange costume fittings
  • distribute information to other theatre departments
  • assist the 'get in' to the theatre, when the set, lighting and sound are installed, and the 'get out', when all the equipment is removed
  • compile and operate prompt copy - also known as the 'prompt script' or 'the book', which notes actors' moves and cues, and the requirements for props, lighting and sound
  • make alterations to the set between scene changes, prompt actors and cue technicians
  • liaise with the director, stage personnel and other technical departments, e.g. costume, lighting, sound
  • call actors for rehearsals and performances
  • maintain and replace props and costumes as required

Skills

You will need to have:

  • A valid driving licence
  • excellent communication and organisational skills
  • a sharp eye for detail
  • a sense of humour and the ability to stay calm in a crisis
  • people skills: persuasiveness, patience and tact
  • computer skills and awareness of current technologies
  • the ability to work under pressure, especially in the run-up to a performance
  • problem-solving skills and the ability to think on your feet
  • confidence, decision-making ability and negotiation skills
  • stamina, to cope with long hours during technical and dress rehearsals, and for touring.

Please email an up-to-date CV with contact details and a recent colour headshot to martin@rawlife.co.uk.
Closing date for submissions is Wednesday 28th February.
Submissions from agents are also welcome.
You will be contacted by 6pm Thursday 1st March if you have been shortlisted for audition.

Stage Manager Required

Introduction

Rawlife require the services of a professional and competent stage manager for its production of Pearse Elliott's 'The Sword & The Sand'

Dates

Rehearsal Period: Mon 09/04/18 - Sun 29th
NI Tour Tue 1/5/18 - Sun 6/5/18
Lyric Belfast Tue 08/05/18 - Sun 27/05/18 (excluding Mondays)

Job Description

You will coordinate all aspects of a theatre company to ensure the successful delivery of the performance. In order to do this, you must have excellent people management skills.

You'll manage rehearsals, actors, technicians, props and costume fittings, and liaise with front-of-house staff and the director.

You'll need to have a good understanding of both the technical and artistic elements of a performance so you can ensure it is delivered exactly to the director's requirements.

You will be involved from the rehearsal stage through to the live performances, where you will be on hand to deal with any emergencies or issues that may hinder the show.

Responsibilities

  • set up and run rehearsal schedules
  • procure all props, furniture and set dressings and assist in set construction
  • arrange costume fittings
  • distribute information to other theatre departments
  • manage the props budgets and liaise with the production manager regarding costs
  • supervise the 'get in' to the theatre, when the set, lighting and sound are installed, and the 'get out', when all the equipment is removed
  • compile and operate prompt copy - also known as the 'prompt script' or 'the book', which notes actors' moves and cues, and the requirements for props, lighting and sound
  • make alterations to the set between scene changes, prompt actors and cue technicians
  • ensure the company's welfare and maintain a good working knowledge of all relevant health and safety legislation and good working practice
  • run the backstage and onstage areas during performances
  • liaise with the director, stage personnel and other technical departments, e.g. costume, lighting, sound
  • call actors for rehearsals and performances
  • maintain and replace props and costumes as required
  • liaise with resident staff at other performance venues
  • call the show during live performances
  • operate sound during live performancces

Skills

You will need to have:

  • A valid driving licence
  • excellent communication and organisational skills
  • a sharp eye for detail
  • a sense of humour and the ability to stay calm in a crisis
  • people skills: persuasiveness, patience and tact
  • computer skills and awareness of current technologies
  • the ability to work under pressure, especially in the run-up to a performance
  • problem-solving skills and the ability to think on your feet
  • confidence, decision-making ability and negotiation skills
  • stamina, to cope with long hours during technical and dress rehearsals, and for touring.

Please email an up-to-date CV with contact details and a recent colour headshot to martin@rawlife.co.uk.
Closing date for submissions is Wednesday 28th February.
Submissions from agents are also welcome.
You will be contacted by 6pm Thursday 1st March if you have been shortlisted for audition.
 

The Sword & The Sand Casting

Introduction

We would like to hear from professional actors who wish to be considered for their new theatre production in May 2018.  The play is written by award winning writer Pearse Elliott, directed by Rawlife’s artistic director Martin McSharry and will be rehearsed and performed in Belfast followed by a local tour.

This is an opportunity to work with the award winning Pearse Elliott and Rawlife theatre company who have a proven track record of presenting edgy, dark but funny theatre about modern life as in ‘Here We Lie’, ‘As the Tide Ebbs’; ‘Lanciatore’, ‘Septic Tiger’ and ‘The Christening’.

This is a production in which West Belfast meets East (Middle-East that is) and is a hard-hitting, dangerous comedy.  Azir, a political refugee, comes here to escape a life of persecution only to find himself right back where he started.  He gets taken advantage of by Duff a local drug enforcer and gets dragged into a life of crime from which he tries to escape.  However, Azir is not the only victim of Duff’s sociopathic behaviour as his Duff’s impressionable protégées Cricky and Lala are also led down a path of delusional dreams and idealistic dead ends.  It will be an entertaining black comedy about how idealism and the struggle for freedom can lead to many different places, some hopeful but others violent.

Characters

DUFF

Male: (50+): He is an ex paramilitary anti-drug enforcer with sociopathic tendencies.  He makes his money by forcing drug dealers to pay him and his gang for protection.  He has a strong (steroid) physical presence. 
(Excellent Belfast accent essential.)

LALA

Female: (25-30): She and Duff are in a sexual relationship.  She is a strong feisty woman who has a strategic plan to convince Duff to kidnap and force a drug dealer (Turbo) into revealing where his cache of money is hidden.  She expects a handsome cut when the cash is stolen.
(Excellent Belfast accent essential.)

CRICKY

Male: (25-30): Duff’s apprentice, physical presence.  He is an idealistic republican who looks up to Duff as a here of the war, but is now slowly becoming disillusioned with Duff's financial and selfish activities
(Excellent Belfast accent essential.)

AZIR

Male: (35-45):  He is an illegal political refugee from a war torn African country who had made his way here via unscruplious people traffickers.  Having lost his family enroute he now depends on Duff for accommodation and food in return for slave labour.
Ideally looks African/Middle Eastern in origin.

TURBO

Male: (35-45): He is a tough, successful local drug dealer who refuses to pay protection money to Duff's organisation for protection.  This brings him into inevitable conflict with Duff.

Applications

Please email an up-to-date CV with contact details and a recent colour headshot to martin@rawlife.co.uk.


Submissions from agents are also welcome.

Part-time Project Administrator Required

Introduction

Rawlife Theatre Company in an independent theatre company whose remit is to produce dynamic shows incorporating all aspects of theatre, including music, dance and multimedia while at the same time making theatre that is accessible.  We are highly focused on attracting new audiences to theatre by producing shows with challenging and sometimes controversial themes that speak directly to our modern audience.  Recently the company has been focusing on working with local writers to produce new plays that contain a local voice and tell our own unique stories. 

Rawlife require the services of a project administration assistant for its community workshops and its production of Pearse Elliott's 'The Sword & The Sand' 

Dates

Part Time: November 2017 - June 2018 inclusive

Job Description

You will execute all administrative duties to ensure the successful delivery of the project. In order to do this, you must have excellent people management skills.

Responsibilities

  • perform general project administrative duties 
  • provide assistance, including diary coordination, meeting arrangement and
    correspondence management to the Artistic Director
  • maintain excellent communication across the organisation
  • ensure that day-to-day administrative duties are carried out
  • co-ordinate and minute company meetings
  • organise workshops
  • organise transportation for workshops
  • organise tour
  • organise transport and accommodation for tour
  • disseminate information to the board as required
  • assist with special events and meeting organisation and set up
  • process all invoices, inputting them into the finance system
  • oversee the use of office petty cash, reconciling it and inputting into the finance
    system
  • oversee the monthly reconciliation of credit cards and inputting into the finance
    system
  • check and update the income generated
  • deal with all general banking administration
  • pay in cheques received, updating the finance system
  • produce all sales invoices
  • assist the Accountant with other finance requirements
  • communicate and provide information to funding bodies

Skills

You will need to have:

  • excellent communication and organisational skills
  • ability to work in a non-structured environment
  • self motivated
  • a sharp eye for detail
  • a sense of humour and the ability to stay calm in a crisis
  • people skills: persuasiveness, patience and tact
  • computer skills and awareness of current technologies
  • bookkeeping skills
  • the ability to work under pressure, especially in the run-up to a performance
  • problem-solving skills and the ability to think on your feet
  • confidence, decision-making ability and negotiation skills
  • stamina, to cope with long hours during technical and dress rehearsals, and for touring.

Renumeration 

£10 per hour
Maximum 200 hours

Please email an up-to-date CV with contact details to martin@rawlife.co.uk.
Closing date for application is Friday 27th October.
Submissions from agents are also welcome.
You will be contacted by 6pm Wednesday 1st Feburary if you have been shortlisted for an interview.