Pembroke Players presents...
Friends of the God
By AC Gray
21:30, Thu 6th – Sat 8th March 2025 at Pembroke New Cellars
Lent Week 6
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• violence
• death and/or dying
• blood
• mental illness
• flashing lights
• racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism
• substance abuse
When Casey, an enigmatic, charismatic, self-proclaimed god comes to town, this precipitates a crisis for devoutly religious, socially conservative Joseph.
This modern adaptation of Euripides' Bacchae focuses on the tragedy of repression, the lure of being different, and the agony of feeling trapped.
Contact organizers
Get involved with Friends of the God:
AD, or Direct, this exciting new student-written show -- Pembroke Week 7 Late!
Prod team packet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8oydb3Cj4JsAhCv0AgItycDZWEyqxcDP1tlMAXx9HI/edit?tab=t.0
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 31st Jan 2025 23:59.
Produce this exciting new student-written show -- Pembroke Week 7 Late!
Prod Team packet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8oydb3Cj4JsAhCv0AgItycDZWEyqxcDP1tlMAXx9HI/edit?tab=t.0
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 31st Jan 2025 23:59.
Music-direct this exciting new student-written show -- Pembroke Week 7 Late!
Prod team packet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8oydb3Cj4JsAhCv0AgItycDZWEyqxcDP1tlMAXx9HI/edit?tab=t.0
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 15th Feb 2025 00:00.
Design costumes for this exciting new student-written show -- Pembroke Week 7 Late!
Prod team packet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8oydb3Cj4JsAhCv0AgItycDZWEyqxcDP1tlMAXx9HI/edit?tab=t.0
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 15th Feb 2025 00:00.
Design the set for this exciting new student-written show -- Pembroke Week 7 Late!
Prod team packet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8oydb3Cj4JsAhCv0AgItycDZWEyqxcDP1tlMAXx9HI/edit?tab=t.0
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 15th Feb 2025 00:00.
Become the welfare officer for this exciting new student-written show -- Pembroke Week 7 Late!
Prod team packet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8oydb3Cj4JsAhCv0AgItycDZWEyqxcDP1tlMAXx9HI/edit?tab=t.0
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 15th Feb 2025 00:00.
**JOSEPH MacMillan (mid 20s) has grown up devoutly religious and socially conservative. He works in law. He has not spent a lot of time in self-reflection, and is not entirely sure he’d like what he’d find if he did. Religion thus takes the place of this.
** - lead role
- Fri 31st Jan, 15:00–17:00, Pembroke New Cellars
- Sat 1st Feb, 15:00–17:00, Pembroke New Cellars
- Sun 2nd Feb, 10:00–11:00, Pembroke New cellars
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 2nd Feb 2025 23:59.
**CASEY is the kind of person everyone is drawn to. They are in complete control of a room. They radiate charisma, speak cryptically. They claim to be a god. They are attractive, powerful, and exist outside of society. A radical in every sense of the word.
** - lead role
- Fri 31st Jan, 15:00–17:00, Pembroke New Cellars
- Sat 1st Feb, 15:00–17:00, Pembroke New Cellars
- Sun 2nd Feb, 10:00–11:00, Pembroke New Cellars
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 2nd Feb 2025 23:59.
*BEATRICE MacMillan (early 50s) is Joseph’s mother. She is hard-edged with a deep sense for right and wrong, but does not have her son’s fanaticism. And the deeper he goes, the more she wonders if religion really has all the answers.
* = medium-sized role
- Fri 31st Jan, 15:00–17:00, Pembroke New Cellars
- Sat 1st Feb, 15:00–17:00, Pembroke New Cellars
- Sun 2nd Feb, 10:00–11:00, Pembroke New Cellars
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 2nd Feb 2025 23:59.
*ELENA / double cast with Sgt. WHITMAN (mid 20s) is one of Joseph’s friends. She has had some of Joseph’s identity crisis in the past, but is more likable and adaptable than he is.
* = medium-sized role
- Fri 31st Jan, 15:00–17:00, Pembroke New Cellars
- Sat 1st Feb, 15:00–17:00, Pembroke New Cellars
- Sun 2nd Feb, 10:00–11:00, Pembroke New Cellars
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 2nd Feb 2025 23:59.
JACK (mid 20s) is Casey’s foil: he is handsome, charismatic, and a natural leader, but he is even more religious and conservative than Joseph. There is something sinister in him…or is there?
(Small role)
- Fri 31st Jan, 15:00–17:00, Pembroke New Cellars
- Sat 1st Feb, 15:00–17:00, Pembroke New Cellars
- Sun 2nd Feb, 10:00–11:00, Pembroke New Cellars
For more details, read the full advert or contact acg81@cam.ac.uk before 2nd Feb 2025 23:59.
