DIRECTOR – Vera Stevens

STAGE MANAGER – Tiffany Sweely

DATES & TIMES:

SUNDAY, JUNE 30th (6:30pm-9:00pm) | MONDAY, JULY 1st (7:00pm-9:30pm)

CALLBACKS (if needed):

WEDNESDAY, JULY 3rd (7:00pm-9:30pm)

SIGN-UP:

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(Please note that paper forms will not be available, all audition forms must be completed electronically)

MATERIAL:

For auditions, please prepare a monologue of your choosing, no longer than 2 minutes,

and be prepared to read scenes from the script if needed.

(If you are needed for callbacks, you will be notiﬁed by email the evening of

TUESDAY, JULY 2nd to return on WEDNESDAY, JULY 3rd.)

REHEARSALS:

MONDAYS & THURSDAYS (6:45-9:45pm) | SATURDAYS (9am-1pm)

(Rehearsals are tentatively scheduled, and is subject to change based on cast availability if needed.)

FIRST REHEARSAL:

MONDAY, JULY 8th @ 6:45pm

(It will be an ALL CALLED Read-Through in the Gallery. It is mandatory for everyone to attend and ﬁll out paperwork.)

Please bring a list of all known conﬂicts to auditions as this will help to determine the ﬁnal schedule.

A ﬁnal schedule with conﬂicts and scene breakdown will be provided to you by the end of the ﬁrst week of rehearsals.

TECH WEEK:

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th, 2024 – THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th, 2024

NO CONFLICTS WILL BE ALLOWED DURING TECH – There are no exceptions to this.

SHOW DATES:

FRIDAY | SEPTEMBER 13th, 2024 (7:30pm)

SATURDAY | SEPTEMBER 14th, 2024 (2:00pm & 7:30pm)

SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 15th, 2024 (2:00pm)

FRIDAY | SEPTEMBER 20th, 2024 (7:30pm)

SATURDAY | SEPTEMBER 21st, 2024 (2:00pm & 7:30pm)

SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2024 (2:00pm)

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:

WALTER YOUNGER

The protagonist of the play. Walter is a dreamer. He wants to be rich and devises plans to acquire wealth with his friends, particularly Willy Harris. When the play opens, he wants to invest his father’s insurance money in a new liquor store venture. He spends the rest of the play endlessly preoccupied with discovering a quick solution to his family’s various problems.

BENEATHA YOUNGER

Mama’s daughter and Walter’s sister. Beneatha is an intellectual. Twenty years old, she attends college and is better educated than the rest of the Younger family. Some of her personal beliefs and views have distanced her from conservative Mama. She dreams of being a doctor and struggles to determine her identity as a well-educated Black woman.

MAMA (LENA YOUNGER)

Walter and Beneatha’s mother. The matriarch of the family, Mama is religious, moral, and maternal. She wants to use her husband’s insurance money as a down payment on a house with a backyard to fulfill her dream for her family to move up in the world.

RUTH YOUNGER

Walter’s wife and Travis’s mother. Ruth takes care of the Youngers’ small apartment. Her marriage to Walter has problems, but she hopes to rekindle their love. She is about thirty, but her weariness makes her seem older. Constantly fighting poverty and domestic troubles, she continues to be an emotionally strong woman. Her almost pessimistic pragmatism helps her to survive.

JOSEPH ASAGAI

A Nigerian student in love with Beneatha. Asagai, as he is often called, is very proud of his African heritage, and Beneatha hopes to learn about her African heritage from him. He eventually proposes marriage to Beneatha and hopes she will return to Nigeria with him.

GEORGE MURCHISON

A wealthy, African-American man who courts Beneatha. The Youngers approve of George, but Beneatha dislikes his willingness to submit to white culture and forget his African heritage. He challenges the thoughts and feelings of other Black people through his arrogance and flair for intellectual competition.

MR. KARL LINDNER

The only white character in the play. Mr. Lindner arrives at the Youngers’ apartment from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association. He offers the Youngers a deal to reconsider moving into his (all-white) neighborhood.

TRAVIS YOUNGER

Walter and Ruth’s sheltered young son. Travis earns some money by carrying grocery bags and likes to play outside with other neighborhood children, but he has no bedroom and sleeps on the living-room sofa.

BOBO

One of Walter’s partners in the liquor store plan. Bobo appears to be as mentally slow as his name indicates.

WILLY HARRIS

A friend of Walter and coordinator of the liquor store plan. Willy never appears onstage, which helps keep the focus of the story on the dynamics of the Younger family.

MRS. JOHNSON

The Youngers’ neighbor. Mrs. Johnson takes advantage of the Youngers’ hospitality and warns them about moving into a predominately white neighborhood.