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JOB NOTICE - CROWD DIRECTOR - CANADIAN BADLANDS PASSION PLAY -
DRUMHELLER, AB
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Production name: Passion Play
Date production rehearsal/job starts: 05/06/2013
Deadline to submit: 12/19/2012
Email applications to: pplayproduction at me.com
Contact name: Ailsa Birnie
Contact email: pplayproduction at me.com
Contact phone: 403-875-4112
Engager Website: www.canadianpassionplay.com

Ethno-cultural mandate or ethno-cultural casting statement:
The Canadian Badlands Passion Play is one of Canada's largest outdoor
theatrical events. Now in its 20th season, the company annually depicts
the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ in dramatic form. An
epic story told on an epic scale, this year's production features a
creative retelling of the Gospel of John by a mixed
professional/volunteer cast of approximately 200 actors in a 2700-seat
outdoor amphitheatre.

The CBPP is currently accepting applications for a Crowd Director for
the summer of 2013. Contract runs from May 14th to July 21st, with a
4-day pre-rehearsal directors' retreat March 29th-April 1st .

Additional information:
The Crowd Director is hired to deal specifically with the body of
performers without lines that are imperative to many scenes. Experience
in large scale story telling (i.e. Greek theatre, opera, etc.),
corporate movement, and physical theatre is essential. Their job is to
work as a liaison between the Directors and the large group of
performers of the play to execute the vision of the Director/s for the
play. They are responsible for:

*    Assigning crowd performers into small groups and large villages to
provide the right amount of Men, Women, Children, Singers and Musicians
into each crowd scene in the script.
*    Designing, creating, and implementing crowd movement that fulfills
the story ideas and vision of the Lead Director/s, Musical Directors,
Fight Directors and Choreographers.
*    Acting as a liaison between the individual performers of the crowd
and the Lead Directors, Musical Directors, Fight Directors and
Choreographers by answering queries and questions or passing the
questions on to the Directors at appropriate times to bring back the
correct answers to the performers.
*    Assisting with performer moral by ensuring each individual
performer feels they are important within the world of the play and the
production as a whole.
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