A SMALL OAK TREE RUNS RED - NYC EPA
Billie Holiday Theatre, Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EST)
Lunch 2 to 3
CONTRACT
LOA
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles.
PREPARATION
Actors will read from sides, provided at the audition. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Center for Arts & Culture at Restoration
1368 Fulton St
Brooklyn, NY 11216-5372
Billie Holiday Theatre. Check signs in the lobby to direct you to the audition.
PERSONNEL
Personnel in attendance at auditions:
Executive Director: Dr. Indira Etwaroo
Producing Manager: Kristen Adele Calhoun
Playwright: Lekethia S. Dalcoe
OTHER DATES
- Rehearsals/Tech: Tuesday, January 9 through Wednesday, January 31, 2018.
- Previews: February 1 - 7, 2018
- Performances: Thursday, February 8 is Opening Night with Closing Night on Sunday, March 4, 2018
OTHER
RestorationArt and The Billie Holiday Theatre are located at Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton Street (between New York Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue) in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York 11216.
Subway: A, C to Nostrand Avenue; Long Island Railroad to Nostrand Avenue; B25 to Marcy Avenue and Fulton Street Stop; Commercial parking lot is located adjacent to 1368 Fulton Street.
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
SETTING:
The netherworld of 1918 Valdosta, Georgia.
SYNOPSIS:
Shackled, bound, and trapped within someplace between reality and make believe, lies swollen bellied, bloodied Mary Turner, the accused murderer Sidney Johnson, and the loving husband Hayes Turner. All are haunted by the voices of the mob that resides in an abyss that tangles, throws, and switches the elements all in an effort of stopping the memories. Their torture continues even in the afterlife. Sidney has reluctantly been given the task to force Mary to remember the horrible accounts of her lynching so they both can move on. In this world entangled in history and unforgivable acts against humanity, to forget is to forever perish just like the countless stories before them, trapped within old newspapers and forgotten memories. Inspired by the 1918 killing of Hampton Smith in Brooks County, Georgia which prompted the holocaust lynchings of many of its Negro Citizens.
Seeking:
MARY TURNER-
African American (Female) Early-Mid 20s. She is 8 months pregnant and possessed of an un-dimmable spirit. She is a woman who has had to endure a lot and yet she has maintained her softness and sensitivity. Some might say that she is much more resilient than she is strong. The action of the drama is a result of her memory.
SIDNEY JOHNSON-
African American (Male) Early-Mid 20s. He is strong willed and devoid of good fortune. Sidney is an anachronism and therefore doomed in his environment. He is a revolutionary lacking comrades in arms.
HAYES TURNER-
African American (Male) 20s-Early 30s. The husband of Mary Turner. His love for his wife is both noble and naïve. His love for her, even in the afterlife, is the chief causal fuel of the play.
The Billie Holiday Theatre is delighted to announce auditions for A Small Oak Tree Runs Red by LeKethia Dalcoe directed by Harry Lennix. RestorationART, the cultural centerpiece of the nation’s first community development corporation, is a 21st century creative complex in the epicenter of Black culture in the US. RestorationART seeks the voices of the community’s disenfranchised and folds them in with those of world class artists to create new artistic works and community experiences, which tell the stories of the community in dance, music, theater, visual arts and conversation. RestorationART is a community bastion where new works and new voices are discovered, created, nurtured, performed, and presented to community members from around the corner and the world.
The Billie Holiday Theatre (The Billie), founded in 1972 by Restoration, is an OBIE and AUDELCO Award-winning theater devoted to the discovery of world-class storytelling with a focus on stories for, by and about people of African descent with 2-3 major productions annually. The Billie presents, promotes and sustains art that reflects the definitive issues of our time in and through all of its forms of expression, especially drama, and including jazz, opera, ballet, film, poetry, and other forms of intellectual and instructive entertainment; to produce and stimulate performances or theatrical productions of all kinds with a focus on, but not limited to the African American experience; and to commission and premiere original works.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
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