<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_150d4d4a65dd2d4e" alt="Inline image 1" width="466" height="186"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Classic Theater Guild announces auditions for the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">directed by Karen Christina Jones</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris is set in "a modest three-bedroom bungalow" in central Chicago. Clybourne Park is a fictional neighborhood, first mentioned in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. In that drama, a fictional account of an African American family's decision to move into a new neighborhood: Clybourne Park, an all-white suburb of Chicago.</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">A response of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, this razor-sharp new satire takes a jab at race and real estate in a fictional Chicago neighborhood. The play begins in 1954 as a black family moves into a white enclave. Act Two takes us back to the same house in 2004 as gentrification sets in and the roles are reversed. </font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Characters </font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Act I 1954</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Russ Stoller: white and in his late forties</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Bev Stoller: white, married to Russ and in her forties</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Francine: black, thirties, housekeeper for the Stoller family</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Albert: black, thirties, married to Francine</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Jim: white, late twenties, a minister</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Karl: white, thirties, president of the Clybourne Park Improvement Association</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Betsy: married to Karl, late twenties, deaf, pregnant</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Act II 2004</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Steve: white, new homeowner of 406 Clybourne Street</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Lindsey: white, married to Steve, pregnant</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Kathy: white, Steve & Lindsey’s lawyer</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Lena: black, great-niece of former resident of Clybourne Street</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Kevin black, married to Lena </font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Tom: white, Kevin & Lena’s lawyer </font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Dan</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Kenneth</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Auditions will be Tuesday, December 8th and Thursday, December 10th 7.00pm at Emmanuel Baptist Chruch, 275 State Street in Albany.</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Please prepare a two minute monologue.</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">For additional information, call 518.227.0154</font></span></div><div class="" style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Production Dates are January 29th to February 7th at Proctors.</font></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div>
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