<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#FF0000;">CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM HOLDING
AUDITIONS THIS SUN, DEC 15 </span></span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> BY ROBERT O’HARA, </span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">DIRECTED BY INDIA NICOLE BURTON</span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Insurrection: Holding History </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">is a dark comedy that is provocative,
witty and outrageous by the author of <i>Bootycandy, Barbeque </i>and <i>Antebellum.</i></span></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><b><i></i></b>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Insurrection </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">has been described as <i>The Wizard of
Oz</i> meets <i>Roots</i>. As Ron struggles to finish his dissertation on Nat
Turner’s rebellion,TJ (Ron’s 189-year-old great-great grandfather) takes Ron on
a journey back in time to 1831, the year Nat Turner led his infamous rebellion
in South Hampton County, Virginia. Mutha
Wit accompanies them on this mystical journey as she translates for TJ, who can
neither speak or move anything but his left eye and the middle toe of his right
foot. When they arrive in the deep, deep, dark South, the characters take on
one of the most appalling times in history. They see outrageous incidents
unfold and come to realizations that may or may not satisfy them on why they
travelled back in time in the first place. <i>Insurrection
</i>is a work unafraid to utterly confound most traditional narrative
assumptions, and in a surreal version of history also manages to address
contemporary police violence against African-Americans, to explore who has the
right to tell whose story, to look critically at attitudes toward sexuality,
gender and intolerance, and to explore how different generations adhere to
different rules.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Available roles. Note that some actors play multiple characters.</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"></span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">(The roles of Ron and Mutha Wit have
already been cast.)</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Gertha / Clerk
wife / Mistress Mo’tel: Black Female
between ages 35-50</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Octavia / Katie
Lynn: Black
Female between the ages of 21-30</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Nat Turner /
Ova Seea Jones: Black Male between the ages of 30-40</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Clerk Son /
Izzie Mae: Black
Female between 18-30 </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">*Character has a nude scene</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Reporter/ Cop /Clerk
Husband/ Buck Naked/ Detective: White
Male between the ages of 25-40</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Hammet: Black
Male between the ages of 21-35</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">T.J: Black
Male between the age of 25-35</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Equity contracts are not available for
this production.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Auditions will
be held at convergence-continuum’s Liminis Theater, 2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland
44113, <b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Sun, Dec 15, 3-7 pm.</span></b>
Actors should prepare two contemporary contrasting monologues and come
prepared to cold read.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">The production
will open Fri, July 10 and run Thurs-Sat through Aug 1 (11 performances).
Rehearsals are expected to start mid-to-late May. Actors in the production will receive a
stipend. </span></p><p></p>
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