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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt">Directed by<span> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt"><b>Dale Ricardo Shields</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt"> </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px"> <b><u>2019 Benefit production</u></b></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px">A Series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form Ntozake Shange coined as the choreopoem</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px">7 dynamic and diverse women of color with depth and range. Performers with spoken word, movement, and singing abilities highly encouraged to<span> </span><span style="margin: 0px">audition</span>. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px">Experienced AEA and non-union<span> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px">perf</span><span style="margin: 0px">ormers</span><span style="margin: 0px"><span> </span>invited to apply. [Ages
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px">Actresses who move<span> </span><i>very</i><span> </span>well. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px">The production will be performed in late November 2019 </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px"><b>Bring recent an 8/10 photo and 1-page acting resume </b></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px">Cold readings from the script (Group<span> </span><span style="margin: 0px">audition</span>)</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18pt"><b>SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2019 </b></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px"><i><b>Casting For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow is Enuf, Ntozake Shange's first work and most acclaimed theater piece which captures the brutal, tender and
dramatic lives of contemporary Black women.</b></i></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><span style="margin: 0px"><i><b> For Colored Girls... offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music, and poetry.</b></i></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center"><i><b><span style="margin: 0px">An American classic, this stirring “choreopoem” weaves together 20 separate poems with music, movement and narratives<span> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px">to tell the stories
of</span><span style="margin: 0px"><span> </span>love, empowerment, and struggle and loss in a complex representation of sisterhood. Mature subjects from rape, abandonment, abortion, and domestic violence are tackled.</span></b></i><br>
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