<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br clear="all"></div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="6">Calloloo Theater Announces Auditions for </font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_l42z6svq0" alt="audition sg.JPG" width="562" height="177"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6">directed by Karen-Christina Jones</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6">Audition dates are Saturday, June 18th and Saturday, June 25th at <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"></span><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">1</span>2:00 pm</b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6"> at Washington Public Library's Small Auditorium </font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6">161 Washington Avenue Albany NY</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6"><b>Please prepare a two-minute monologue and prepare to read from the script.</b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6">Production Dates are Saturday, September 17th; Sunday, September 18th; and </font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6">Saturday, September 24th; Sunday, September 25th</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6"> at the Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence </font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6">Any questions or concerns, please contact <a href="mailto:statestreet2424@gmail.com" target="_blank">statestreet2424@gmail.com</a> or 518-720-2011<a href="http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B15187202011" class="gv-tel-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Call +1 518-720-2011 via Google Voice"></a></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6">As per Calloloo Theater Company's mission, we continue to welcome </font><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6">BIPOC actors and actors of all gender identities. </font></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6">Please note that all actors must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. </font></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6"><br></font></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="6"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="6"><b>Synopsis</b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Seven Guitars brings a post-war Pittsburgh and us into the world of the 1940s. We sort through
the plight of the Black American men who fought and died in World War II, who now return
home to find they must confront the same inequities they’d faced before they left. Blues singer
Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton returns from a 90-day stretch in the county jail with a recording
contract in his pocket and a plan to take his woman and his band to Chicago. Buoyed by the
heroics of the great black boxer Joe Louis, Floyd is sure the world is finally ripe for black heroes.
But the backyard that serves as his office, social club and romantic getaway seems haunted; and
his eccentric neighbor, Hedley, who teeters between wisdom and madness, is destined to bring
Floyd’s dreams of success to an end.</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="6"><b>Characters</b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><b style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:xx-large">(All parts are open)</b><font face="georgia, serif" size="6"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">
CANEWELL: He and Red Carter are Floyd’s closest friends. He’s an edgy, quick-tempered
harmonica player, who's tired of playing back-up in life for Floyd. He made the trip with Floyd to
Chicago the first time and regrets it. He loves Vera. </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">FLOYD: Blues singer Floyd "Schoolboy" returns to Pittsburgh at thirty-five years old with a hit
song and an opportunity to record a record back in Chicago. In the time since the recorded the
initial song, Floyd has squandered the flat fee he received for recording, left his girlfriend (Vera)
for another woman, was then left by the other woman, pawned his guitar, and spent ninety days
in jail after being arrested while walking home from his mother's funeral. After a year of trials
and tribulations, Floyd wants to return to Chicago with Vera, his guitar, and a new sense of self.
He is ready to “live with” not “live without” Unfortunately, the lengths he’s willing to go to, to
make his dreams happen, become his undoing </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">RED CARTER: He and Canewell are Floyd’s closest friends. He’s a drummer by profession, an
expansive, laid-back fellow who can identify a rooster's birthplace by the sound of his crow </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">RUBY: Louise’s niece who comes to Pittsburgh from Alabama. Two men in Alabama were ready to kill
for her. She is a free spirit and is looking for a man to be the fater of the child she is carrying.</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">VERA: Floyds’s ex-girlfriend and eight years his junior. She loves Floyd, but after he left her for another
woman she is slow to trust him again. She may have had a relationship with Canewell in Floyd’s absence.
She is good friends with Louise.</font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">LOUISE: Is a hearty, buxom woman who, years earlier, allowed her man to walk out peacefully
in exchange for his pistol. Louise describes herself as, “forty-eight going on sixty.” Although she
claims to have no interest in love, she has an attachment to Hedley </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">HEDLEY: an old man, not altogether right in the head, who has turned his back on the white
world he loathes. He's a believer in saints, spirits, prophets and the ghost of Charles (Buddy)
Bolden, the legendary New Orleans trumpeter who died in an insane asylum. More than anything
else, Hedley would like to sire a messiah. <br></font></div><div style="text-align:left;font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">Karen Christina Jones</font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">she/her/hers<br><a href="http://www.callalootheatercompany.org" target="_blank">www.callalootheatercompany.org</a></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">If your dream is only about you, it's too small.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">~Ava DuVernay</font></span></p></div><div><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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