The five year old theatre company which looks to invite “child-like play into the lives of our audiences of all ages” is casting 3 women and 4 men for a new immersive and interactive play set in 1957.

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The 5th Wall Immersive Theatre Company is holding auditions for new play Midnight Streetlight Smalltown set in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1957.

June 4 & 5, 7–9pm Peabody, MA

Ensemble auditions: Choose one audition date, and plan to stay the entire time. Come prepared to move, improvise, and cold read from the script. Callbacks are June 6, 7–9pm. This show is scripted, but performances rely heavily on improvisation and audience interaction. Email info@the5thwall.org to reserve a spot and receive the audition location.

About the Show: The term “teenager” was first emerging in America in the 1950s. Being caught in between childhood and adulthood holds its specific challenges: both then and now. Then: youth juggled dealing with the challenges and fears of a post-WWII world, the newly acute Cold War/Space Race with Russia with the launch of Sputnik, the cultural upset of the obscenity trial of Ginsberg’s Howl; all while messily assembling their own identity as a young person with the drama of high school. Midnight Streetlight Smalltown is especially poignant as we similarly juggle today’s political and cultural climate with our own, everyday confusing and disconcerting uncertainties.

The 5th Wall is a collective of artists creating original, immersive and interactive theatre for the North Shore of Massachusetts. Merging installation, interactive and physical theatre, we specialize in devised, site-specific theatre, immersive experiences and interdisciplinary collaboration.