Crapshoot is an event for emerging artists in the early stages of their careers. It is held approximately three times each season on a Friday night, as part of After Hours @ TPM. Artists of different disciplines are selected and given five minutes to perform on our Cabaret Stage. At the end of each night the audience votes for their favourite performance and that artist/group is invited to perform for twenty minutes at the next Crapshoot.
CRAPSHOOT! Auditions
We are now accepting submissions for our next CRAPSHOOT! on June 1st, 2012! If you don’t know, ‘Crapshoot’ is an evening of late-night, rapid-fire performances featuring new work by some of the best of Toronto’s up-and-coming talent, complete with a ticking clock and obnoxiously loud buzzer! Our carefully selected artists, will all grace the stage in a random order, as selected by the audience during the show.
Each group/performer will have a total of 5 minutes on stage to try out a new work in front of a lively audience willing to take a gregarious gamble. The audience will decide who will have a longer-than-five-minute time slot in our next Crapshoot!
We welcome actors, directors, writers, musicians, comedians, dancers, producers, visual artists and anyone who rolls over the boundaries between these roles. Our evenings are typically put together with a variance in mind, so ante up and go all in!
Application Process: Please follow the guidelines carefully. Only those selected for an audition will be contacted.Auditions will take place on May 15th and 16th. Not every submission will guarantee an audition. Failure to follow the guidelines means your application will not be considered.Please fill out the questions below and send your application to:
elephantsintheroom@
before the witching hour(MIDNIGHT) on FRIDAY, MAY 11th, 2011. We cannot accept any applications after this date!
1. Who are you? (Name, theatre background, company affiliations, anything else you briefly want to tell us.)
2. How can we get a hold of you? (Phone, email, etc.)
3. Where might we have seen you before? (Previous productions, workshops, other artistic endeavors.)
4. Have you been to a CRAPSHOOT?
5. In 100 words or less, what have you got for us? Creativity and originality accepted graciously.
6. Who is your (or your company’s) greatest inspiration? And why? 25 words or less please.
