EXPIRES: September 6, 2025

Theater Casting Call for “Unity (1918)” Play

Acting
Description

Seeking performers for production of “Unity (1918)”. More details are bellow.

About the play:
A Gothic romance that embraces love at the edge of death.
Synopsis: The year is 1918 and the Great War is finally over, but a mysterious and deadly plague – the “Spanish Flu” – has arrived in Canada and the citizens of Unity, Saskatchewan are fighting for their lives. This Governor General’s Award-winning play tells the story of a small farming community quarantined in an attempt to keep the illness out. The play tells of compassion, adaptation, and hope. The human spirit endures, coping with personal tragedy.
Content Advisory: Mature themes and language.

Additional information:
Performance Dates: November 19 to December 7, 2025.
Callbacks by invitation only will be held Sunday, September 7 starting at 1pm.
Rehearsals start September 16 and will run Tuesdays and Thursdays (7–10 p.m.) and Sundays (1–4 p.m.).
There is nothing to prepare for these auditions as there will be cold reads from the script.
Audition Location: Langham.
Auditions will be in the Rehearsal Room.

10 Project roles
Beatrice
20
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29.
A farmer’s daughter who also narrates much of the action through her diary entries.
Application deadline closed.
Sissy
18
-
24.
Beatrice’s younger sister, a doomsday prophet who provides humorous moments with her dark jokes.
Application deadline closed.
Mary
20
-
29.
A debutante, Beatrice’s Best Friend.
Application deadline closed.
Rose
40
-
69.
A telephone operator, knows everything going on in Unity.
Application deadline closed.
Doris
40
-
69.
A telegraph operator, Rose’s sidekick and gossip of Unity.
Application deadline closed.
Sunna
18
-
24.
She inherits her uncle’s mortuary and becomes the town’s mortician, a rebel, and an outcast.
Application deadline closed.
Stan
30
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49.
A farmer who experiences hardship and loss during the play.
Application deadline closed.
Hart
20
-
39.
A blinded War Hero who is a cousin to Sunna.
Application deadline closed.
Michael
18
-
24.
A young farm hand who preaches the gospel (may also play Glen).
Application deadline closed.
Glen
20
-
39.
A young soldier returning to Unity when the war ends.
Application deadline closed.