Tortured Autist needs Writers / Performers!!!

We are looking for WRITERS / PERFORMERS for this surreal one night stand sketch show!!

Imagine a pick 'n' mix but it’s all parsley. Pretty cerebral stuff.

Tortured Autist will be a compilation-one-night-only-sketch-show but its final form will be shaped by your input as writers and performers. Mostly, our aim is to make an erratic, nonsequiturial comedy show with a loose analogy of how neurodivergency makes one experience the world weirdly. The show is themeless, but will explore ‘mental otherness’ in a unique and darkly comedic way.

We want this show to rival the strangest thing you’ve seen at a fringe festival - get involved if you want to be experimental in your comedy…

All information is below. As in hell.

How to audition
Please send as follows to Martha (ma2110@cam.ac.uk) and Eleftheria (elm83@cam.ac.uk) by 20th January 23:59. If you need an extension just email to let us know.

1. 5 minute-ish self tape performing any comedy material you have written (doesn’t have to be relevant to the theme). You may want to include a short introduction if you don’t have 5 minutes of material - just helps give a holistic image of your style but not totally necessary.
2. Some comedic written material. This can be a poem, standup set, or even a few lines of a potential sketch idea for this show.
   n.b. If you wish to write and perform please send both. If you only wish to perform, send the first or only wish to write, send the second. These roles will be completely flexible.

APPLICATION PACK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lh993KuXZjJIegoLxQBAQScd09MMkPhrZGvVhzcIQzE/edit?usp=sharing

PLAINTEXT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XUdyw0KPOoy4qRE2F-SsKTNCw2erCXReWElGnpG5g6s/edit?usp=sharing

Any questions feel free to email 🪱

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Contact ma2110@cam.ac.uk before 20th Jan 2025 23:59 for more details.