Details
Union:
Union or Non union
Area of media:
Play
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
This is a completely self-funded theatre show with the director volunteering their time.
There's a small amount of compensation available, plus a percentage of the profit share of the Toronto Fringe Ticket Sales.
Deadline:
May 9, 2025
Cities for response:
Toronto
Storyline
When idealistic but scattered Erik, a wannabe therapist, learns he’s being deported from Canada in thirty days, he scrambles to find a way to stay. With no legal work permit and mounting desperation, Erik hatches increasingly harebrained schemes: from selling magic mushrooms to seniors to slinging MDMA at raves, while hiding it all from his best friends. Fast, funny, and painfully human, Paper Chase is a battle cry for every immigrant who ever got lost in the system, and fought like hell to stay anyway.
This is all based on the playwright's own 1,978 day journey (but who's counting) to obtain his Permanent Residency to stay in the country. Minus the drug dealing ;).
This is all based on the playwright's own 1,978 day journey (but who's counting) to obtain his Permanent Residency to stay in the country. Minus the drug dealing ;).
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Lagos | Male 20 - 29 Years old |
Description From the outside, you’d think Lagos is the typical frat-bro. But he’s a real charmer and cares more about people than his Jeep Wrangler. If Thad Castle from Blue Mountain State went to improv and a Chappell Roan concert. He has a family member who’s an addict, so he is very opposed to drug dealing. Even if it’s non-addictive. For him, it’s all the same. He loves looking at the bottom of a bottle of Crown Royal, though. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Moe | Male 20 - 29 Years old |
Description Moe is an international student who has come to Canada in the past two years. He’s a full-of-life true optimist but seeks stability wherever he can find it: his studies, his friends, and his (completely absent) love life. His parents are loaded, but he doesn’t let it show. His English is good, but he still literally translates some of his native sayings like “swatting two flies with one slap” instead of saying “killing two birds with one stone”. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Dolores | Female 60 - 99 Years old |
Description Dolores is a naughty granny who has spent her life fighting The Man. Now, she runs a covert drug-dealing operation from the safety of her retirement home. If the Oracle from the Matrix were a retired gangster. We are willing to cast someone younger who could realistically play someone who would live in a retirement home. | ||