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My Brilliant Apocalypse Part I: The Return of Barry Brilliant
RETURNS to Melbourne IN 2025
Fresh from a Brilliant 2024 Melbourne Fringe season, we are assembling cast and crew to join our expanding Family.
This is an awesome opportunity to help bring this expansive vision to life as a Legacy member and work on a unique, timely and epic story.
For our 2025 Stage Production and on-going Audio Play we are seeking passionate and enterprising individuals who resonate with what we are creating and want to leave their mark bringing My Brilliant Apocalypse to the world!
KEY PERSONNEL OPPORTUNITIES:
Producer
Assistant producer
Publicist/
Social Media Manager
Dramaturg
Sound Engineer Assistant
CASTING OPPORTUNITIES:
Author (Lead - Male)
Pete (Supporting - Male)
Auntie (Supporting - Female Indigenous)
Bruv (Supporting - Male Indigenous)
Claire (Supporting - Female)
Zara Brilliant (Supporting - Female)
Antonio E. Christo/Voice-Over (Supporting - Male)
* With 100+ characters populating the world of The Return of Barry Brilliant - all cast play multiple roles in this incredible ensemble piece (see breakdowns below)
PRODUCER
Working closely with the existing Producer and autonomously on:
Auditions
Approving Budgets & Expenditure
Pitching to Investors + Supporters
Overseeing the overall Production including Audio Play
Helping source various Assets and Key Personnel
ASSISTANT PRODUCER
Assistant to the Producers on the above and other essential Production tasks.
PUBLICIST/SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Corresponding with Media.
Local and online campaigns.
DRAMATURG
Coming in to several rehearsals to objectively observe things the Directorial Team will miss.
Offering the objective eye on staging and script.
SOUND ENGINEER ASSISTANT
Joining the Sound Team to bring the Audio Play to life.
AUTHOR (LEAD - MALE 40’s+)
The central character - Brilliant creative or paranoid delusional?
Riddled with self doubt and insecurities, mellowed by fatherhood, the Author reconnects with his best friend and muse Pete during a therapy session - who just happens to be deceased.
The Author like us all has creativity bursting forth from inside him. He laments giving up on his Magnum Opus - the tale of Sir Barry Brilliant, to focus on getting his life together and fatherhood.
Until one day he meets his creation face-to-face…
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING ROLES:
DAD (AT FREEDOM RALLY) - minimal lines
MEN’S GROUP (MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY) - minimal lines
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SECURITY (MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY) - minimal lines
CROWD (MCG)
NEW YEAR’S REVELLER
PETE (SUPPORTING - MALE 40’s+)
Pete appears to his old best mate The Author from beyond the grave. Is he a spectre? Or an aspect of The Author’s consciousness represented by Pete…
Either way his presence in The Author’s life channels the voice of the Muse - goading and inspiring him to create again.
Pete is a moving, poignant role with its fair share of wit and pathos.
He is on stage for most of the show, as observer and occasional antagoniser.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING ROLES:
NICHOLAS (LORD’S CRICKET WORLD CUP FINAL) - minimal lines
MARK DE BONO (BARRY’S RIGHT HAND MAN) - minimal lines
WOKE SPECIALIST (MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY) - minimal lines
FRATER (DARK BROTHERHOOD) - minimal lines
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MEN’S GROUP (MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY) - minimal lines
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CROWD (MCG)
NEW YEAR’S REVELLER
FREEDOM RALLY PROTESTER
DARK WRAITH
AUNTIE (SUPPORTING - FEMALE INDIGENOUS 30’s+)
Auntie and Bruv appear on the streets having looked after Barry for the past 5 or 6 years. Witty, cheeky, they tease throughout “The Return of Barry Brilliant” that it is no accident they stumble on to old Barry.
Often the voice of wisdom, and sanity, Auntie and Bruv also don’t live on the streets by accident. They more than hint that their presence on the land is no small act of rebellion.
Embodying communal spirit and collective remembrance, Auntie and Bruv are only introduced in Part I. They have a large part to play in Barry’s Universe by throughout the Series.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING ROLES:
CROWD (MCG)
TIK TOKER
TOURIST
CATT TEAM - minimal lines
NEW YEAR’S REVELLER
Bruv (SUPPORTING - MALE INDIGENOUS 30’s+)
Bruv and Auntie go by these names as they do not belong to one particular country. They are mythical in nature. As Barry starts to try to navigate his way back to his World, Bruv and Auntie appear at a doorway of his imagination, and try to impart a summary of the lesson 6 years on the streets should have taught him.
Do they get it through his belligerent mind? Or does Barry need a final lesson in his Author’s world - to help him bring back the lessons the heart and soul of his Indigenous and Homeless family were meant to teach him.
It’s no accident the actors who perform Bruv and Auntie double up as the Catt Team.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING ROLES:
AUSTRALIAN CAPTAIN - minimal lines
MCG ATTENDANT - minimal lines
TIK TOKER
TOURIST
CATT TEAM - minimal lines
NEW YEAR’S REVELLER
MEN’S GROUP (MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY) - minimal lines
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CLAIRE (SUPPORTING - FEMALE 20’s+)
Claire is more hardened by the streets than her fiancé Macca, and she is also fiercely protective. No doubt she sleeps with one eye open at night to protect them both. Her strong maternal instincts also come out when the Author meets Barry. They know him as ‘Old Mate’, so we just leave it “Do you understand?”
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING ROLES:
BEGGAR - minimal lines
CROWD (MCG)
INTERROGATION OFFICER - minimal lines
TIK TOKER
TOURIST
ORDERLY - minimal lines
THUG - minimal lines
LIAM’S MUM (FORTUNATE HEIR) - minimal lines
MACCA (SUPPORTING - MALE 20’s+)
Wide-eyed, innocent, with the perception of a child, Macca has not let living on the streets harden his heart. His love for his fiancé Claire no doubt plays a big part in that. Macca has many great one liners and will win the hearts of audience and get the big laughs each night.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING ROLES:
ENGLISH CAPTAIN - minimal lines
BEGGAR - minimal lines
CROWD (MCG)
INTERROGATION OFFICER - minimal lines
MALE NURSE - minimal lines
FRATER (DARK BROTHERHOOD) - minimal lines
(see image below)
ORDERLY - minimal lines
THUG - minimal lines
MEN’S GROUP (MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY) - minimal lines
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ZARA BRILLIANT (SUPPORTING - FEMALE 20’s+)
Barry’s younger ‘Sister’, clearly his favourite, and equally susceptible to being severely let down by her ‘Big Brother’. The Brilliant ‘Sisters’ have three hilarious cameos in “The Return of Barry Brilliant”, teasing their presence in future episodes.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING ROLES:
ELIZABETH CAMPBELL - television current affair host. Interviews Sir Barry.
GRETCHEL BLURTER - enthusiastic host of Barry’s reality tv show “Fortunate Heir”.
POLICEWOMAN - minimal lines
PSYCHIATRIST - tasked with Sir Barry’s “rehabilitation”
TIK TOKER
TOURIST
PASSER BY - minimal lines
PROTEST CROWD
RECEPTION - minimal lines
ANTONIO E. CHRISTO/VOICE-OVER (SUPPORTING - MALE 40’s+)
The charismatic and mysterious Antonio E. Christo appears in our second Act. Fronting a press conference to field questions about an advertising controversy, the Chairman of Christo International leads a double life.
Why is Barry’s presence in the Author’s Universe of interest to the Christo family?
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING ROLES:
VOICE-OVER - Sets the scene for each “Beat” as our story travels time and space across the Multi-verse.
NASSER HUSSAIN (LORD’S CRICKET WORLD CUP FINAL) - minimal lines
ANNOUNCER (MCG)
CRICKET COMMENTATOR - minimal lines
RING ANNOUNCER - minimal lines
PASSER BY - minimal lines
ANNOUNCER (For the “Who-What-Where”)
MEN’S GROUP (MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY) - minimal lines
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SECURITY - minimal lines
GROUPs APPEARING In mY BRILLIANT APOCALYPSE PART I:
MCG CROWD (AUTHOR, PETE, CLAIRE, MACCA)
TOUR PARTY (AUNTIE, BRUV, ZARA, CLAIRE)
DARK BROTHERHOOD (PETE, MACCA)
NEW YEAR’S EVE REVELLERS (AUTHOR, PETE, AUNTIE, BRUV)
FREEDOM PROTEST (PETE, ZARA, ANTONIO/VOICE-OVER)
MEN’S GROUP (AUTHOR, PETE, BRUV, MACCA, ANTONIO/VOICE-OVER)
“Do you want to tell me about the Voices in your Head”
BARRY CAN’T WAIT TO WORK WITH YOU!
CONTACT THE SHOW’S PRODUCER DIRECT AT:
barry@mybrilliantapocalypse.com