A collage-and-meta exploration wherein a modern-day black graduate student finds himself and his 189-yr-old grandfather transported back to slavery times and the Nat Turner rebellion. Insurrection 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 African-American attitudes toward homosexuality, and to explore how different generations adhere to different rules.
AUDITIONS
Monday & Tuesday, August 8 & 9 7-9:30 PM
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VIDEO AUDITIONS are also being accepted until Friday August 5th 11:59PM.
PREPARATION (In-Person)
Please bring a current resume, headshot & any conflicts between September 5 – October 14 to in-person auditions.
PREPARATION (Video)
Please send your headshot, resume, conflicts between September 5 – October 14 and your video to Jeannine.gaskin@gmail.com
PERFORMANCES
October 14 – November 5, 2022, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00PM
Provide a list of conflicts for September 5 – October 14.
For questions or more
information contact director Jeannine.gaskin@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.