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Hello Towson Alums!
I am writing to see if you are interested in auditioning for MAD BREED by Jacqueline Lawton at Active Cultures, the vernacular theatre of Maryland. MAD BREED begins rehearsals on March 29th and runs May 2nd – 25th at Joe's Movement Emporium. MAD BREED was commissioned and developed by Active Cultures and will be directed b y Juanita Rockwell. Please contact Mary Resing at activeculturestheatre@yahoo.com or 301-526-9921 to schedule an audition for Saturday, January 12.
Below is a description of the play and a list of the roles we are casting as well as bios for the playwright and director. We are proud to say that although Active Cultures is a new and small theatre company, all artists are paid (they are paid only a tiny tiny stipend but they are paid something).
MAD BREED-- On the eve of their parents' wedding, the offbeat teenaged siblings of John Wilkes Booth decide to put on a play. When they are unexpectedly joined by an African American actress on the run, romance, Shakespearean verse and mayhem ensue. Experience the insanity, brilliance and over-the-top sibling rivalry of one of Maryland 's most notorious families one silly summer on their family farm in Belair, Maryland .
CHARACTERS:
* Adah (30/16), beautiful, smart, brave, a free African American girl, who dresses up as a boy to perform in minstrels, incredibly talented, she adores Edwin.
* Edwin (32/18), handsome, genuine, Junius' mentor, dresser, companion, and guide while on tour, he has personal aspirations to be an actor himself, he adores Adah.
* Wilkes (27/13), terribly handsome, charming, scrappy, Junius' favorite son, precocious, racist, driven, a good, strong actor, and politically minded.
* Asia (16), Junius' youngest daughter, creative, determined, and adores Wilkes to a fault, loves Sleepy for who she knows he could be, if he tried.
* Sleepy (18), opportunistic, a bit of a playboy, Edwin's classmate, wants desperately to be a tragedian actor, but is more suited for comedy. This actor will also speak the voice of Shadow of a Man.
* Blanche (16), a princess, ridiculous, a horrific actress, neighbor to the Booths, she loves Edwin to a distraction.
Playwright JACQUELINE E. LAWTON is the author of Blood-bound and Tongue-tied, Deep Belly Beautiful, and The Devil's Sweet Water. Her plays have been developed and received workshop readings at Didactic Theater Company in collaboration with the Kitchen Theatre (Round House Theatre); the Kennedy Center 's Page to Stage Festival under the sponsorship of the Shakespeare Theater Company; Rorschach Theater Company's Magic in Rough Spaces New Play Development Program, and Woolly Mammoth Theater Company (with support from Arena Stage). Most recently, Ms. Lawton's play The Devil and The Marine was written and produced as a part of Rorschach Theater Company's MythAppropriations. Ms. Lawton is a three time semi-finalist for the Playwright's Center PlayLabs and recently received the Young Artist Program Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities to fund further development of The Devil's Sweet Water (keep and eye out for that in February 08).
JUANITA ROCKWELL is a director, writer and dramaturge with over 20 years experience developing new works for theatre, opera, radio and multi-media. She recently directed Shoot the Messenger, a site-specific solo performance in a 100 year-old barn in Connecticut . She directed the workshop premiere of The Sound of Waves, a music theatre piece by Donna DiNovelli/David Rodwin, for Mabou Mines/Suite Resident Artists program. She was Co-Director of Squonk Opera's multi-media production Burn, which premiered at Pittsburgh 's City Theatre and toured nationally as Inferno. She also wrote/directed/co-designed A Cave in the Sky, a work with puppets, performers, and video, for The Artists at St. Ann's Puppetlab at The Culture Project in New York City and in collaboration with her husband, musician/sound/video designer Chas Marsh. Other productions she has directed include Moliére's The Misanthrope (Blue Heron Theatre, NYC), Beckett's Play (with sculptor John Antone at Washington Project for the Arts, DC), and James Sellars' music theater pieces Chanson Dada (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and For Love of the Double Bass ( Madrid, Helsinki, Yorkshire ).
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