And Company Theatre will hold auditions for Pearl Cleage's A SONG FOR CORETTA. The play is set at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Feb. 6, 2006, the day Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., lay in state there. Thousands of people showed up to pay their respects, and Cleage's play supposes a cross-generational meeting of five of them.
Audition Dates: January 5 - 6 from 12pm-3pm
Callbacks: January 7 from 6pm -9pm
Audition and Show location: Friends Center at 1501 Cherry Street
Rehearsals will begin January 10. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6pm-9:30pm and Sundays from 1pm-4pm
Show dates: February 21-24.
Send headshots and resumes to casting@andcompanytheatre.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: (all characters are African American)
Helen – 56 - a stuffy, old guard Civil Rights activist
Mona Lisa – 40 - a jovial but canny artist and Hurricane Katrina survivor
Zora – 22 - an enthusiastic Spelman student
Keisha, aka "Li'l Bit" – 17 - a hilariously brash and uncouth high schooler
Gwen Johnson – 24 - an Iraq war medic due to return at the end of her leave
