Trap!
Director: Josephine CzarneckiArtistic Director: Kyle Vasquez
Auditions & Rehearsals
Ages: 13-18
Rehearsals start 9/8, Mondays 4:00-7:00 & Saturdays 12:00-5:00
Tech rehearsals 11/9-11/13 4:00-9:00
Shows
Friday November 14, 7pm
Saturday November 15, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday November 16, 2pm
Friday November 21, 7pm
Saturday November 22, 2pm & 7pm
Synopsis
MENACHAP, CALIFORNIA. An incomprehensible event: every person in the audience of a high school play falls unconscious—every person but one. Using interviews with witnesses, loved ones, first responders, and the investigators pursuing the case, a theatre ensemble brings the story of the strange event to life, documentary-style. But as the strands weave together into an increasingly dangerous web, it becomes clear that this phenomenon might not be entirely in the past. Unnerving, exhilarating, and wildly inventive, you've never walked into anything quite like Trap.
The audience went NUTS.
I have never heard a crowd scream that much. I didn't think we were going to be able to finish the play. The audience screamed and applauded for 3 - 5 minutes. It was insane ... and so much fun!!!
Cast of Characters
Documentary Theatre/Horror
12 W, 10 M, 5+ Any
(10-24 actors possible)
HECHE
34, struggling detective
ANGELA
16, the lone survivor of the attack
EPHRAIN SALAS
23, the fireman
RICKENBOCH BAYNOR
a researcher who studies fear
KENOSHA
16, the only person who can tell what the pharonochs are
NORMA PIKE
the woman destroyed by the loss of her husband
CANDELARIA ORTIZ
the philosopher brought in to understand the incident
MARION JAY
Pharonoch expert
ISSA FUENTE
“How bodies cool down”
MELISSA TENGUE
evolutionary biologist
MENACHAP HERALD
should have been in the theater that night
JONATHAN MOLLUSK
Scottish, wrongly accused man
DONOVAN
Ephrain’s boss
BRAND HILLOCK
architect of the Oak Box
SERGEANT BROCK
Heche’s boss
CLIFTON
Kenosha’s buddy
AVISHAY LENSER
forensic engineer
DANALYNN MORSE
counselor at Kenosha’s school
ENSEMBLE 1,2,3,4,5
ENSEMBLE 1,2,3,4,5
DEPUTY 1&2
DEPUTY 1&2
AMERICAN, BRITISH, & SPANISH-LANGUAGE BROADCASTERS
AMERICAN, BRITISH, & SPANISH-LANGUAGE BROADCASTERS
CELIA BROWN
has a memento
MAURA AOKI
the community is safe
BRIAN GURBAXANI
hears the attack
MOLLUSK’S COUNSEL, COURT TRANSCRIPT, JUDGE MATALUCCI
MOLLUSK’S COUNSEL, COURT TRANSCRIPT, JUDGE MATALUCCI
INTERVIEWER
INTERVIEWER
HARTE FORBUSH
HARTE FORBUSH
QUETA MUGURUZA
(discovers that animals can subsist on fear)
TRANSLATOR
(translates Queta Muguruza)
911 OPERATOR
911 OPERATOR
TIME MAGAZINE, HAUNTED CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES TIMES
(Publications)