TOPDOG/UNDERDOG - Atlanta OPEN Call
North Carolina Black Repertory
AUDITION DATE
Sat, Dec 09, 2017
12:00 pm (EST)
APPOINTMENTS
Auditions are by appointment only. To schedule an appointment, please sign-up at http://signup.com/go/piNcSum; audition sides will be emailed upon confirmation of appointment. Please bring picture and resume, stapled together.
CONTRACT
Guest Artist $433/week. Travel and housing provided.
SEEKING
Equity and non-Equity actors for the roles of LINCOLN and BOOTH
PREPARATION
Audition sides will be emailed upon confirmation of appointment.
LOCATION
Spelman College Fine Arts Building
350 Spelman Lane SW
Atlanta, 30314
PERSONNEL
Keith Bolden: Director (will be in attendance)
Jackie Alexander: Artistic Director
Writer: Suzan-Lori Parks
OTHER DATES
Rehearsals: February 10 - 28, 2018?(in Atlanta, GA)
Production Dates: March 1-11, 2018 (in Winston-Salem)
OTHER
www.ncblackrep.org
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
Synopsis:
Topdog/Underdog is a dark comedy revolving around two African American brothers: Lincoln and Booth. Their father chose their names as a twisted joke shortly before deserting them. The choice of naming the children after an assassin and his target foreshadows how tumultuous the relationship between Lincoln and Booth would become. Both orphans, they have relied on each other for survival and company. Now in their thirties, both men struggle to make a new life, one that will lead them away from poverty. Lincoln spends his days getting “shot” playing President Lincoln in an odd tourist attraction, while Booth tries to master the con game three-card monte. Throughout their many trials and tribulations, the brothers turn to conning people on the streets, and even each other, in their attempts to survive. Full of passion and poetry, Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001.
Seeking:
Lincoln: often referred to by Booth as “Link,” is the older brother by five years. Link is in his late thirties and works as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator. As an impersonator he dresses up in Lincoln attire, including whiteface, and sits quietly in the dark while people pay to come into the “theater” and shoot him with a prop gun. Link used to work on the streets as a successful card hustler. He is the “topdog.”
Booth: Booth is the “underdog.” The younger of the two brothers, Booth is unemployed but desperately trying to teach himself three-card monte so that he can be a successful card hustler like his brother. Though he is not employed, he is the one who rents the apartment and controls its comings and goings.
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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