Director: Herb Newsome
Audition Dates/Times - Nov.16 @6PM
Callback Dates/Times - Nov.17 @ 7PM
Performance Dates February 3, 2023 – February 19, 2023
Set in 1911 Pittsburgh, this moving work chronicles Black life of that time Each resident of a Black boardinghouse has a different relationship to their past of slavery as well as their urban present. August Wilson gives haunting voice to the souls of this dispossessed group of Americans at the beginning of the century. It is his epic vision, power and poetic sense that lift their stories to strange and compelling heights.
Characters:
SETH HOLLY – 50’s boardinghouse owner
BERTHA HOLLY -Seth’s wife
BYNUM WALKER -60’s Spiritualist and a “finder”
RUTHERFORD SELIG-traveling salesperson – white
JEREMY FURLOW – 25 yrs. single, Boarder
HEROLD LOOMIS – Mysterious stranger
ZONIA LOOMIS -Young daughter of Herold Loomis
MATTIE CAMPBELL – 20 yrs mysterious woman traveler
REUBEN MERCER – young neighborhood boy
MOLLY CUNNINGHAM – young Boardinghouse resident
MARTHA PENTECOST – spiritualist
What To Prepare
Please prepare a rehearsed monologue and be prepared for cold reads from the script
Auditions By Appointment by contacting Fred Reed
602 258-8128
Stipend provided
Audition Venue:
Helen K, Mason Performing Arts Center
1333 East Washington Street
On Southside of Washington Street - South of Light Rail tracks
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