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Contract
Guest Artist
Seeking
Actors. All roles are African American and Caucasian men. See Breakdown for details.
Other Dates
NYC appointments: 2/18/11. Submit photo/resume ASAP. Deadline for submissions: 9 AM on 2/18.
1st reh: 3/15/11. Runs 4/5-4/17.
Personnel
Author: Charles Fuller.
Other
Actors should prepare a 1-2 minute monologue. Scenes will be read at auditions.
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| Breakdown
Lieutenant Byrd:
Caucasian. By-the-book military officer.
Corporal Bernard Cobb:
African American, mid - late 20s.
Captain Richard Davenport:
African American. Military lawyer assigned to investigate the murder of Waters. Because he is black, the army really cannot find a place for him, and so has assigned him to police black soldiers.
Corporal Ellis:
By-the-book soldier. He is assigned to be Davenport’s assistant, and his job is to deliver the men to Davenport for questioning.
Private Louis Henson:
Late 20s. Nervous and convinced that the Ku Klux Klan is to blame for Waters’s murder.
Private C. J. Memphis:
African American. Young soldier. Was a special favorite of Waters. He entertained with his singing and guitar-playing, and played baseball with the troops as well.
Private First Class Melvin Peterson:
African American, late 20s. Neatest of the black soldiers, shoes polished, his stripe clearly visible, his uniform neatly pressed.
Private Tony Smalls:
Late 30s. Small man. Career soldier. Appears genuinely concerned about Waters’s murder.
Captain Charles Taylor:
Caucasian, mid - late 30s. West Point-educated officer.
Tech Sergeant Vernon C. Waters:
Waters’s murder opens the play. Thereafter, his presence on stage is as a voice from the past.
Captain Wilcox:
Medical officer who is accused of participating in a beating of Waters on the night he was murdered. The one officer who treats Davenport with respect and who appears to have no bias against African Americans.
Private James Wilkie:
Early 40s. Career soldier.
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