Auditions will be held Saturday September 17 at 10:00am and Sunday, September 18, at 6:00pm at TWT (1001 W. 7th St., Little Rock, AR 72201. On the corner of 7th and Chester) for the dramatic reading of LINCOLN’S DREAM, a new play by Phillip McMath, and INTIMATE APPAREL, a drama by Lynn Nottage. You only have to attend one of the times.
LINCOLN’S DREAM
By Phillip H. McMath
Dramatic Reading Date – October 8, 2016
Rehearsal Dates – Beginning mid-September, 2016
Directed by Matthew Mentgen (matthew@mentgenlawfirm.com)
Cast: 6 male actors (5 white, 1 black). 4 female actors (1 black, 3 white).
Characters:
Abraham Lincoln – age 56, 16th President (PRE-CAST)
Capt. Thomas Graves – late 20s, Lincoln’s escort
John Wilkes Booth – age 27, Actor and Assassin
Chorus-
Mary Todd Lincoln – late 40s, Lincoln’s wife
Frederick Douglass – in his 40s, Former slave and abolitionist
Asia Booth Clarke – age 26, sister to Booth
Edwin Booth – age 30, brother to John Wilkes
John Surratt – late 20s, Conspirator
Mrs. Mountchessington – late 40s
Augusta – early 20s
Florence – about 30
Servant – any age, black female
SYNOPSIS
“Lincoln’s Dream” is a Two-Act tragedy which takes place in the last week of President Abraham Lincoln’s life. On April 3rd, 1864, after some of the bloodiest fighting in our Civil War, General U.S. Grant forced General Robert E. Lee to abandon Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate Capital. On April 4th, Lincoln came in a small boat up the James River to the city, and, escorted by a small detachment of sailors and Marines, he ambled through the streets of the devastated capital where he was greeted with amazement by whites and jubilation by blacks. Soon, he found what he was looking for — the “Confederate White House.” Shown into the office of Jefferson Davis, the erstwhile president of the Confederacy who had fled, Lincoln went to Davis’s desk and sat in his chair. He requested a glass of water, drank deeply, and asked to be alone. Then he fell asleep. Did he dream? Lincoln was a great believer in dreams, and the play performs the dream he might have dreamed as Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist and friend of Lincoln, appears like an apparition with his Chorus of friends and performs “Lincoln’s Dream.” Meanwhile, John Wilkes Booth, a tortured and talented actor from a great family of actors, plots his assassination of Lincoln. Awakened, Lincoln returns to Washington to learn of Lee’s surrender on April 9th, Palm Sunday, at Appomattox, then on Good Friday, April 14th, while attending the popular comedy “Our American Cousin” at the Ford Theater, he was murdered by Booth.
INTIMATE APPAREL
By Lynn Nottage
Performance Dates – January 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 2017
Rehearsal Dates – Beginning late November/early December, 2016
Directed by Felicia Richardson (feliciaybr@hotmail.com)
Cast: 4 female actors (3 black, 1 white). 2 male actors (1 black, 1 white).
Characters:
Esther – 35, African-American female
Mrs. Dickson – 50s, African-American female
Mrs. Ban Buren – 30s white American female
Mr. Marks – 30s Romanian Jewish immigrant male
Mayme – 30s African-American female
George – 30s Barbadian immigrant male
SYNOPSIS
The time is 1905, the place New York City, where Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. Esters life is beset with disappointment and betrayal, but she is determined to use her gifted hands and her sewing machine to refashion her dreams and make them anew from the whole cloth of her life’s experiences.
WHAT TO BRING:
FORM — Please bring the attached Audition Form with you to the auditions. Please print and fill out the form before you arrive: http://weekendtheater.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/TWT-Audition-Form_Lincolns-D_Intimate-A.pdf
Sheets will also be available at auditions.
PHOTO — Please bring a recent black & white or color, medium- or head-shot with you. It should be no larger than 4in x 4in. If you have a recent photo on file at TWT, then we will use that.
THANK YOU!
We are a theater which features plays of social significance, and we strive to treat each other with kindness, empathy and respect. Auditioning with us is designed to be a sharing and learning experience, not a competitive trauma, so please come join our Weekend Theater family!
NEED A HEADSHOT?
The Weekend Theater will offer professional head shots for only $20.00 to those attending the upcoming auditions on Sat., July 23 and Sunday July 24 for “The Wiz”. You will receive one full color 8×10 and one digital image for one low price. This service is courtesy of Dale Ellis at d.Ellis photos with proceeds to benefit The Weekend Theater.
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