[Capdist-auditions] Callaloo Theater's Auditions for Seven Guitars by August Wilson--Time Change

[Karen Christina Jones]

Calloloo Theater Announces Auditions for

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directed by Karen-Christina Jones

Audition dates are Saturday, June 18th and Saturday, June 25th at *12:00 pm*
 at Washington Public Library's Small Auditorium
161 Washington Avenue Albany NY
*Please prepare a two-minute monologue and prepare to read from the script.*

Production Dates are Saturday, September 17th; Sunday, September 18th; and
Saturday, September 24th; Sunday, September 25th
 at the Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence

Any questions or concerns, please contact statestreet2424 at gmail.com or
518-720-2011 <http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B15187202011>

As per Calloloo Theater Company's mission, we continue to welcome BIPOC
actors and actors of all gender identities.
Please note that all actors must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination.



*Synopsis*

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.


*Characters*
*(All parts are open)*

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.




Karen Christina Jones
she/her/hers
www.callalootheatercompany.org



If your dream is only about you, it's too small.

~Ava DuVernay
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