Audition for our spring 2025 Cabaret!

Larrikin entertainment is seeking 12 performers for our next exciting show, 

The Apocalypse is Over - A Post-Apocalyptic Cabaret

Rehearsal dates | March 31 – April 28, 2025 – rehearsal schedule and location tbc

Show dates | April 29 - May 10, 2025 - Tuesday to Saturday 8pm at the Old Fire Hall

Why audition?

Do you want to work with amazing people and have more fun than a barrel of plastic monkeys competing with Fortnite for little Jonny’s attention? 

Do you sing? Dance? Act? Juggle? Play an instrument? Tap Dance? Gargle the alphabet? Back flip? Front flip? Flip like Elon Musk at a Trump rally? 

Would you consider doing all of these things at once? 

Do you like theatre that questions the powers that be while it simultaneously entertains? 

Have you always wanted to be part of a huge cast having ALL the fun on stage and off in a supportive, safe, and inclusive environment?

If the answer is yes to more than two of these questions then…

this notice is for YOU!

What will you be auditioning for? 

Good question! 

A cabaret! An Atomic Vaudeville Cabaret. 

(Google can help fill in the blanks, or see below)

More easily described by what it might NOT be - variety show, sketch comedy, burlesque, musical theatre - this Cabaret is a collective labour of love that pushes theatre, kicking and screaming, into the future by fusing the common and secret joy of coarse amusement with a conscious desire to engage in a thoughtful dialogue about our uneasy connected existence as people in a community. 

Think Monty Python meets the Muppet Show. Think hipster Beachcombers. Think...actually, try not to think too much at all. 

Clear? Great! See you there!

AUDITION DETAILS: 

When? Saturday January 18 , 2025 1-4 pm

Where? Sternwheeler Hotel (conference room tbc - there will be signage)

These are paid positions by honorarium 

(honorarium amount tbc at the end of February when funding numbers are confirmed)

Time commitment:

 Rehearsals - approximately 25-30 hours per week for 4 weeks 

Show - two weeks x 5 nightly performances each (Tues-Sat)
Rehearsals will be afternoons/evenings and possible weekends and scheduled around cast availability as much as possible. 

This will be a group audition – bring your A-game...

and/or your uke, rollerskates, fav puppet, juggling balls, tap shoes etc. 

Wear comfy clothes for moving around, choreography, improvisation, singing and silliness.

If you've always loved singing, dancing, acting, doing stand-up, drag, burlesque, or any other form of joyful performance expression, and enjoy being a part of large-cast musical numbers, have a two-minute bit you would love to perform, or some other performance itch you'd like to scratch, come join the fun! We are hoping to share the stage (and this amazing experience) with emerging and professional performers from the Yukon community who would like to: hone their craft and learn new stuff by working with exciting directors and musical directors from Victoria and Vancouver, add a professional show to their resume, thrill and enthrall Yukon's theatre-going public, and have more fun than that barrel of Sisyphean monkeys mentioned above. 

Performers must be 18 years and older - this show will contain deliciously coarse language, and very saucy adult themes.

For more information please send inquiries, resumes and headshots (just a well lit photo of your face) to: larrikinentertainment@gmail.com and/or call Kat on 867 335 2288 to chat.

If you cannot be at the auditions in person, please send a self-tape to Kat at the email above. Call for guidance if you have any questions.

Some info about the cool folks coming up from BC to shape the show...

Director

Britt Small - Co-Artistic Producer, Atomic Vaudeville

Britt Small studied at LaMama's Director's Intensive in Italy and has trained in various physical theatre forms. She completed her MFA in Directing at theUniversity of Victoria with a production of Sophocles' Electra. She is the artistic producer of company Atomic Vaudeville and plays in the bandSlut Revolver. Nationally and internationally, Britt has directed JanetMunsil'sCircus Fire and The Ugly Duchess, JacobRichmond's The Qualities of Zero, Ride the Cyclone and Legoland, TheFantasticks and True West for Blue Bridge RepertoryTheatre, numerous new Fringe Festival plays, and Firebugs at the William Head prison. Her work as a director has received several national awards as well as a Jessie nomination for My Chernobyl at the Gateway and theBelfry. Britt also works as a dramaturg and book editor and has taught acting,play building, movement and improvisation for various organizations including the University of Victoria and the Canadian College of Performing Arts.

Co-director

Kathleen Greenfield - Co-Artistic Producer, Atomic Vaudeville

Kathleen (she/they) weaves meaningful magical encounters that edify artists and spotlight communities. Passions include site-specific outdoor performance, shadow and object puppetry, clown, and storytelling.  As Co-Artistic Producer of SNAFU, Kathleen has directed the premiere productions of Little Orange Man, Kitt & Jane and Interstellar Elder. Kathleen has worked with William Head on Stage Prison Theatre as a facilitator, workshop leader, assistant director, projection designer, writer and/or performer alongside a team of incarcerated participants and outside artists since 2014.

Musical Director

Ashley Robyn - Singer/Songwriter/Comedian

Ashley is a Juno nominated one-of-a-kind cabaret performer based out of Vancouver BC, who writes and performs hilarious and biting satirical country/rock/folk songs mixed with dark pop parodies. Her clever lyrics go down smooth with her gorgeous vocals, and her charm will disarm you through topics both provocative and silly. With appearances at music, theatre, and comedy festivals alike, her performances have wowed audiences and critics across Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. You may have heard her CBC's The Debaters and on various SiriusXM channels. She is signed with Canada's largest independent music label (604 Records) with Comedy Here Often. Both of her latest albums debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts in Canada. Her album Decoxification was nominated for a Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year in 2020. Ashley was most recently seen on Yukon stages in Jenny Hamilton – Teenage Cult Leader, and WYRD – A Musical UnFairytale (as both a performer and songwriter/musician).

About Atomic Vaudeville 

In 2004 Victoria-based actor/director Britt Small, together with playwright Jacob Richmond, formed Atomic Vaudeville and started putting up shows once a month, each one a “short-form melange of theatre, music, song, dance, puppetry and sketch”. They soon found themselves with a rabid, addicted audience, and the AV shows quickly gained attention and notoriety for their razor-sharp observational humour and decidedly un-PC approach, and have since gained a cult following with audience members often travelling great distances to see them. Since its inception in 2004, AV has produced over 87 cabaret shows in Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Whitehorse, and Bellingham, and worked with over 200 local and visiting artists. Besides cabarets, Atomic Vaudeville has produced the plays Ride the Cyclone, BlissKrieg, The Qualities of Zero, Legoland, The History of Everything, and Circus Fire in Toronto, Seattle, Bellingham, Prague, New York, Victoria, and Vancouver. Atomic Vaudeville has also been commissioned to create new work for the Victoria Erotica Film and Arts Festival, the Monday Magazine Awards, the Victoria Art Gallery, the Luminara Festival, the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival and the BC Film Commission Conference.

Thank you to the Government of Yukon, City of Whitehorse, Lotteries Yukon, and the Yukon Arts Centre's @YAC Residency for supporting this project.