[NEohioPAL] Auditions for INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY by Robert O'Hara at convergence-continuum

[Cory Molner]

A collage-and-metaexploration wherein a modern-day black graduate student finds himself and his189-yr-old grandfather transported back to slavery times and the Nat Turnerrebellion. Insurrection is a work unafraid to utterly confound most traditionalnarrative assumptions, and in a surreal version of history also manages toaddress contemporary police violence against African-Americans, to explore whohas the right to tell whose story, to look critically at African-Americanattitudes toward homosexuality, and to explore how different generations adhereto different rules.

AUDITIONS

Monday & Tuesday,August 8 & 9   7-9:30 PM

Sign up here: https://forms.gle/yArJka9aEtvvudk48

VIDEO AUDITIONS arealso being accepted until Friday August 5th 11:59PM. 

PREPARATION(In-Person)

Please bring a currentresume, headshot & any conflicts between September 5 – October14 to in-person auditions. 

PREPARATION (Video)

Please send yourheadshot, resume, conflicts between September 5 – October 14 and yourvideo to Jeannine.gaskin at gmail.com
Auditions will consistof readings from the script. Sides and short character descriptions 9Also Below)  can befound here:    www.convergence-continuum.org/auditions

PERFORMANCES

October 14 – November5, 2022, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00PM

Provide a list ofconflicts for September 5 – October 14.

For questions or moreinformation contact director Jeannine.gaskin at gmail.com




Character Descriptions:

 

1.  Ron: African-American graduate student (Gay or comfortable kissing men)

 

2.  TJ: African-American great-great grandpa who survived slavery. Voice of reason.

 

3.  Mutha Wit/Mutha: African-American older woman. She is the voice in Ron's head and MaDear type.

 

4.  Gertha/Clerk Wife/Mistress Mo'tel: Middle Age African-American woman. All stereotypical roles of anngry black mother/trailer park trash/southern belle

 

5.  Octavia/Katie Lynn: African ‐American Daughter of Gertha and wet nurse to Mistress Mo'tel. Flighty and perceived as dumb.

 

6.  Nat Turner/Ova Seea Jones: African-American man with a commanding presence and commanding voice.

 

7.  Clerk Son/Izzie Mae: Young African-American girl who will also play a boy. Witty and quick on her feet when speaking.

 

8.  Reporter/Cop/Clerk Husband/Buck Naked/Detective: Middle age white man capable of transitioning from a reporter to a cop, stereotypical trailer park trash,white slave and detective. Good improv skills a plus. 

 

9.  Hammet: African-American handsome man (gay or comfortable kissing men). Somewhat athletic build. He has the soul of a poet, the spirit of a gentle giant but he is also a warrior at Nat's side.


All roles are provided a $400 stipend.

Cory MolnerExecutive Artistic Director, convergence-continuum Theater(He/Him/His)
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