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<font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4">The African American Cultural Center <br></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4">of the Capital Region, Inc.<br></font></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4">presents<br></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4">Ntozake Shange's<br></font></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4"><i>for colored girls who considered<br></i></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4"><i>suicide when the rainbow is<br>
</i></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4"><i>enuf<br></i></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4">directed by <i><br>
</i></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4">Karen Christina Jones<br></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4"><i><br>
</i></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4">Audition Date: Saturday, December 28th Noon-2.00pm<br></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4">at the Albany Public Library in the <br>
</font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4">Second Floor Conference Room</font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4"><i><br>
</i></font></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4">Production Dates: Friday, March 7th, Saturday, March 8th, Sunday, March 8th & Friday, March 14th, Saturday, March 15th and Sunday, March 17th.<br>
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<font size="4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Ntozake Shange's choreopoem, </span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf,</span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">  is a product of the poetry movement in early 1970s Berkley, California, when women of diverse hues were filled with wild and ripe words. Until that time, Black women thirsted for venues of self-expression.</span><br>
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<font size="4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Shange developed </span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">for colored girls...</span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> from the lack of our voice. She wrote and compiled pieces from various performances which changed the face of American theater. Due to its wildfire popularity, </span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">for colored girls...</span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> opened at New York's Booth's theater in September of 1976.</span></font></p>
<font size="4"><br><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The piece is a collection of poems told by seven women, each character represented by a color and the poems are incorporated with dance.</span><br>
<br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-562e6d5a-20e4-09e4-f05c-5dcc0dc6b8fa"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">for colored girls'...</span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> power is the focal point of the piece -- the power of expression utilized by Black American women in words and movement.</span></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><b>S</b>eeking Women of Color between the ages of 20-60.</span></b></font></p>
<p style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">No dance training necessary but must be able to move well.</span><b><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
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<p style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4">Please prepare a two-minute monologue</font></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4">Actresses will be compensated for the performance dates. <br>
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<p style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4">For more information, please call 518.227.0154</font> <font size="4">or e-mail <a href="mailto:statestreet2424@gmail.com">statestreet2424@gmail.com</a></font><br>
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