[NEohioPAL] Karamu Performing Arts Theatre is Holding Auditions for Fabulation, or The re-education of Undine

[richard morris]

Karamu Performing
Arts Theatre is holding Auditions for:
 
Fabulation,
or The Re-education of Undine
Written
by: Lynn Nottage
 
Directed by: Caroline Jackson
Smith
  
Audition Dates:
Friday, July 31,             7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
 
Call Backs:
 
 
 
Performance
Dates:
September 18, - October 11, 2009
Jelliffe Theatre
 
Rehearsals:
	* Rehearsals will begin on or around August 10, 2009
	* Rehearsals will usually run Monday – Friday  6:00 – 10:00 pm., and some weekend dates. 
 
Audition
Requirements:
	* Please come prepared with 2 contrasting monologues
	* There will be sides for you to read at the audition.
	* Please come prepared for movement and improvisation.
	* Please bring 8x10 Headshot and Resume     
	* Check your calendar for any conflicts before auditioning (see “Fabulation” or The re-education of Undine )  performance dates and rehearsal dates above).
 
Audition Location:
 2355 east 89th, ClevelandOhio, 44106
 
About
the Show
Karamu
brings to the stage Ms. Nottage’s 2004  Off Broadway,  Obie award winning
hit. She recently won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her Off Broadway drama  Ruined.  Fabulation is
about an ambitious and haughty African-American woman, Undine Barnes Calles, whose
husband suddenly disappears after embezzling all of her money. Pregnant and on
the brink of social and financial ruin, Undine is forced to go back to her
family, the Watkins,  and childhood home in the inner city of Brooklyn’s Walt Whitman projects, only to discover that she must cope with a crude new reality. Undine
faces the challenge of transforming her setbacks into small victories in a
battle to reaffirm her right to be. FABULATION is a comeuppance tale with a
comic twist. (Adult language and content)
 
 
Characters 
Time: Present Day
Place: New York City 


UDINE BARNES CALLES:  African
American Female, Mid-30’s. Sharona Watkins changed her name to
Udine Barnes to reinvent herself and to get away from her past upbringing. She
runs a successful PR firm. 


DR. KHDAIR//GRANDMA/INMATE/#1 CASE WORKER/ENSEMBLE: African
American Female, Late 50’s-60’s. Udine’s
grandmother and multiple roles.

YORUBA/PRIEST/FATHER/JUDGE/ENSEMBLE: African American Male, Late 40’s-Early 50’s. Udine’s
father and multiple roles.

ALLISON/MOTHER/INMATE #2/DEVORA/ENSEMBLE:  African
American Female, Late 40’s- Early 50’s. Udine’s
mother and multiple roles.

HERVE/GUY/ENSEMBLE : Caucasian Male, Mid-30’s.
Undine’s Dutch husband and  multiple roles.

STEPHIE/COUNSELOR/ROSA/PREGNANT #1/ENSEMBLE : African
American Female, 20’s-30’s.  Udine’s
assistant and multiple roles.

AGENT DUVA/FLOW/DEALER/ADDICT #2/ENSEMBLE: African American
Male,  20’s. Udine’s younger
brother, Flow, and multiple roles.

ACCOUNTANT/ADDICT #1/DOCTOR/ENSEMBLE: Caucasian Male,
Mid  30’s-Early 40’s. Udine’s
accountant and  multiple roles.

NOTE: Each actor must have a sense of great comedic timing.

For
more information, please contact Richard Morris at 216.795.7070 ext. 236
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