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Troupe looks to cast young male actor

North Road Theatre is looking for a young male actor to fill a major role in its production of “The Unplugging,” which opens Jan. 7 for a two-week run in Sudbury and North Bay.
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Encore Theatre Company is back in April after an extended hiatus. File photo.
North Road Theatre is looking for a young male actor to fill a major role in its production of “The Unplugging,” which opens Jan. 7 for a two-week run in Sudbury and North Bay.

The company is looking to cast the role of Seamus, an intrepid, resourceful teen struggling with the devastated landscape around him.

Auditions, to be held in Sudbury Nov. 12, will give a young, up-and-coming actor the opportunity to learn and perform in a professional production alongside experienced professional actors and a director with a long history of achievement in Canadian theatre.

Morgan St. Onge, a previous young star with North Road Theatre, knows exactly how it feels to enjoy this kind of opportunity.

“It helped me learn about how professional theatre works and challenged me to meet its standards,” said St. Onge, who made her professional debut with last year’s production of Muskeg & Money.

“It really made me grow as a young actor.”

St. Onge has taken her experience and is applying her passion as a theatre student at George Brown College in Toronto this fall.

“The Unplugging,” written by First Nations theatre pioneer Yvette Nolan, explores the dystopian setting of a planet facing worldwide power failure.

Two women, driven out into the wilderness as they are no longer of childbearing age, manage to survive by relying on the life skills of the native elders, until a young man - Seamus - interrupts their solitude with a treacherous invitation.

Sudbury’s production of The Unplugging will be the first outside of Vancouver, where it won the 2013 Jessie Award for Outstanding New Play.

North Road’s founding director Bill Lane will be at the helm of this production, with nationally acclaimed First Nations actor Michaela Washburn starring alongside Sudbury’s own phenomenon Pandora Topp.

To book an audition, interested actors should email [email protected].

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