Frey's Anguish

03/25/2024

03/20/2024

Frey’s Anguish
Written & Directed by Alan Segal
Presented by Imbroglio Theatre

March 26-28 7:30-9
March 30 & 31 2-3:30
Paul Phillips Hall 1923 Fernwood Road
Tickets: $20. Cash at the Door or online at freysanguish.com

ABOUT FREY’S ANGUISH
Many people live with daily reminders of the love and assurance of parents, friends, and the gentle evidence of a cared-for existence. Sometimes we learn that reminders come with conditions. On a university campus, a group of student activists discover the conflict between their ambition to change society, and the barriers to their success. Frey’s Anguish is a tale of the paths we choose or fall into, toward personal and sexual awareness. As a controversial international meeting approaches, the group rallies their idealism and sense of justice, to oppose it. They hit the wall of social order and the power of the state.

12/31/2023

STAGE MANAGER WANTED
Now that we are about to stride into a new year, do you ever think you were born too late in history? That you would have loved to be with Hannibal on his elephant trek to Rome? Not for the warfare, but for the experience of traveling and not worrying about doing the driving yourself. We don’t have time travel (yet), but you have an opportunity to do something now that doesn’t require elephant skill.
Join the production of Frey’s Anguish! A play aiming for staging at the end of March. An honorarium will be paid. Cast is ready. Contact Alan Segal at [email protected]

12/31/2023

Frey's Anguish 2024 Cast - Most of Them.

05/16/2023

CASTING CALL (Email Contact Information Amended)
‘FREY’S ANGUISH’
By Alan Segal
A Play In Two Acts

SYNOPSIS:
Frey’s Anguish takes us to a present-day university campus, where a group of student activists discover the conflict between their ambition to change society, and the barriers to their success. A conflict between a desire to be important to society, and the challenges of the paths we choose, or fall into. As an international meeting on their campus approaches, they rally their idealism and their desire to be, and to do, more. They hit the wall of social order and the power of the state.

Roles:
Thirteen characters in all, a few of which can be doubled-up.
Age range is 19-40+. With two exceptions noted below.
Nine roles are portrayals of people between 19 and 29.
One is in their 30s. One is 40+. Two are of people 8 and 12.

Applications:
Send resume to [email protected] indicating your age and acting experience. If you have areas of specific strength, please state this. Include a self-tape of recent work if you have one.

Staging Details:
This is a non-Equity production. The production will be in Victoria, January 2024. A partial staged reading is in discussion for mid-summer 2023.

Auditions:
Begin June 25, 2023

05/11/2023

CASTING CALL
'Frey's Anguish' by Alan Segal

On a university campus, a group of student activists discover the conflict between their ambition to change society, and the barriers to their success. Frey’s Anguish is a tale of the paths we choose or fall into, toward personal and sexual awareness. As a controversial international meeting approaches, the group rallies their idealism and sense of justice. They hit the wall of social order and the power of the state.
Those interested should Indicate which of the roles they want to audition for.

Characters:
Frey - 19/20 - Male - Gay - A leader of the group
Three Male Roles - Early to Mid-20s.
Two Male Roles - 8 and 12.
One Male Role - 19
One Male Role - Early 30s
One Male Role - 40-55
Three Roles - 19 to Mid-20s. Any Gender

12/03/2021

Frey's Anguish is finished resting! The play's script is being developed, with a more evolved role for one of the main characters. At the same time the script is being substantially expanded and adapted into a screenplay. Intriguing possibilities are ahead.

04/23/2021

Recently Frey's Anguish had a full zoom recording. I celebrate the cast, who made this next stage of development a memorable achievement.

04/03/2021

Everything is moving along on my new project, the play “Frey’s Anguish”. The play is cast, and will be filmed next month. The setting is an unnamed university, in an unnamed city, in an unnamed country. The play gradually reveals inherent conflicts, both internal and external; between perceptions of truth and purpose, between a desire to be consequential in society--a builder of a better civilization--and the reality of turning idealism into substance, and between action based on goals of justice, and actions that are entrenched in the institutions of power.

04/03/2021

Introducing Justin Douglas as 'Lieutenant Marietta'. Justin is an actor, interviewer and activist with many years experience on sets & stages throughout Canada. Justin holds an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Victoria and civil & common law degrees from McGill University. He hosts a YouTube interview series called “Canada’s Social Change-Makers.” He currently lives in Victoria, BC, with his partner, David, and their two dogs and four cats.

04/03/2021

Introducing Kelsey Launier as 'Reva'. Kelsey fell in love with theatre at a young age when she was cast as the angel in her school play. Since then, she's pursued her love by studying at TRU in Kamloops before moving to the island. There, she's gone through three years at the Canadian College of Performing Arts, having just graduated this year. You may have seen her as Constance in Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliet, or among the ensemble during this last year over livestream from the college. She's excited to be a part of this production, and to be keeping the art of theatre alive in a safe and healthy way.