HOW BLACK MOTHERS SAY I LOVE YOU - Atlanta EPA
Horizon Theatre Company
AUDITION DATE
Fri, Apr 13, 2018
11:00 am - 7:00 pm (EDT)
APPOINTMENTS
Preferred contact: christina@horizontheatre.com; If no email access, call 404-523-1477 x113.
CONTRACT
SPT $479 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in HOW BLACK MOTHERS SAY I LOVE YOU (see breakdown).
PREPARATION
Sides will be provided. If you have not been seen at Horizon before, please also prepare two contrasting contemporary monologues. Please bring two photos and resumes.
LOCATION
Horizon Theatre
1083 Austin Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30307-1940
PERSONNEL
Director: Thomas W. Jones II
Artistic Director: Lisa Adler
Set Design: Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay
Lighting Design: Mary Parker
Co-Artistic Director Lisa Adler expected to be in attendance at auditions.
OTHER DATES
First rehearsal: June 11
Opening: July 13
Closing: August 27
Performances are Wed, Thurs and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 3pm and 8:30pm and Sundays at 5pm.
OTHER
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
From the creator of the popular 'da Kink in my Hair comes a powerful and touching tale of immigration, family and sacrifice. Hard-working Daphne left her two young daughters in Jamaica for six years to create a better life for them in America. Now thirty years later, proud and private, Daphne is relying on church, prayers and home-cooked rice and peas to face a health crisis. Daughter Valerie is the primary caretaker, but her attention is split managing her successful husband and a rocky marital road. When the prodigal daughter Claudette arrives unexpectedly to help out, the reunion stirs up the buried past, family ghosts and the burning desire for unconditional love before it’s too late.
Daphne: African-American. Jamaican accent. Fifty-four-year-old former domestic worker from Jamaica. She has terminal cancer. She is a very religious woman. She’s known for being a bit dramatic and loves to tell a good story; however, she is also a very private and proud woman. She has refused treatment and is relying on God to heal her now.
Claudette: African-American woman. Thirty-seven years old, a social worker and a social activist. She is Daphne’s eldest daughter. She’s a pretty tomboy type who often wears a white T-shirt and a pair of jeans, occasionally she wears red lipstick. She is gay, which is not accepted by her mother, and has been living in another city and has not been home for several years.
Valerie: African-American woman. Thirty-five years old, married into money, but “works” at her husband’soffice. She is Daphne’s middle daughter. She is pretty and tends to be a bit stiff and proper. She values tradition and the proper way of doing things. She tends to dress like Michelle Obama. She is the peacemaker of the family, and thus often has a nervous energy about her.
Cloe: African-American woman, 18+ to play teens to early 20s. Strong movement/dance skills. Daphne’s youngest child. She is “dead.” Yet her spirit remains a constant presence in the house. Cloe is seen mainly by Daphne but felt by everyone. Cloe died when she was ten years old from sickle-cell anemia. Role is often onstage, but Cloe is a ghost and does not speak.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
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