Description:

Pig Iron Theatre Company is looking to cast two performers for our upcoming production of FRANKLIN’S KEY for the MOVEMENT ENSEMBLE, or “Gogglers.”

The Goggler/Movement Ensemble is made up of performers of any gender, 20-45, open to all ethnicities. Inspired in part by the Blob-men in Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle, the Gogglers are the functionaries who animate the mystery beneath Philadelphia in Franklin’s Key. Attired in “clockpunk” goggles, they are part Puck from Midsummer Night’s Dream, part subterranean force connected to electricity and tunnels. They are mainly invisible to the characters of the play. Through carefully choreographed object manipulation and movement, they are the engines who propel the scenery and construct the world of the play around the characters. They are also puppeteers who animate automatons (18th-century wooden robots run by clockwork) and other effects.