Auditions for a stage reading of STICK FLY by Lydia Diamond to be held tomorrow, Tuesday, January 22, 2019 from 1-4:30pm, Nichols 129 C (in 15 minute time slots). Please email Jen Vellenga for an appointment: vellenga@ksu.edu. If you can’t make it tomorrow, additional appointments can be scheduled Wednesday, Jan. 23 between 1-4:30pm, if necessary.
STORYLINE:
The affluent, African-American LeVay family is gathering at their Martha’s Vineyard vacation home for the weekend, and brothers Kent and Flip have each brought their respective ladies home to meet the parents for the first time. Kent’s fiancée, Taylor, an academic whose absent father was a prominent author, struggles to fit into the LeVay’s upper-crust lifestyle. Kimber, Flip’s white girlfriend, who works with inner-city school children, fits in more easily with the family. Joining these two couples are the demanding LeVay patriarch, Joe, and Cheryl, the daughter of the family’s longtime housekeeper. As the two newcomers butt heads over issues of race and privilege, long-standing family tensions bubble under the surface and reach a boiling point when secrets are revealed.
Roles Needed:
Casting 4 women and 3 men in the following roles:
KENT (SPOON) – 31, youngest son of the LeVay family; has grown up with an artistic disposition in a family of doctors and lawyers, a novelist, engaged to Taylor.
TAYLOR – 27, daughter from an earlier marriage of renowned, recently deceased, public intellectual, James Bradley Scott; was raised by a single mother college professor, engaged to Kent, but had a one-night stand with Flip which gets revealed late in the play.
CHERYL – 18, the daughter of the family maid; pretty, bright, always well-intentioned; has always had a crush on Flip, learns about her mother’s affair with Dr. Levay.
FLIP – 36, oldest son of LeVay family; the “golden boy” who, with some compromises, has fallen in line with his father’s expectations, a plastic surgeon; a ladies man, dating Kimber
DR. JOSEPH LEVAY (DAD) – 58, LeVay patriarch; a well-intentioned man, who rules his family with a firm, loving hand; A neuro surgeon, has always had a way with women, had an affair with Cheryl’s mom. His wife (Kent and Flip’s mom) will not join them at their vacation home for the weekend because of his adultery.
KIMBER – 32, white; is an intelligent woman with a quick wit and sincere warmth; her social status matches that of the LeVays, with of course, the undeniable privilege of whiteness – of this she is aware, and on some level appalled. Flip has brought her to their vacation home to introduce her to the family.
STAGE DIRECTIONS – female, must have a strong voice with an ability to tell the story of the environment with only the use of the voice.
If the cast is all available, rehearsals will begin Wednesday 1/23 6:30-9:30pm. It is a stage reading so you do not need to memorize lines, but you need to be a good reader with a strong voice. The rehearsal schedule is somewhat flexible based on cast availability, but it will look something like this:
Wed. 1/23 6:30-9:30pm
Thurs. 1/24 6:30-9:30pm
Fri. 1/25 OFF
A long rehearsal (5 hours) on EITHER Saturday or Sunday afternoon( 1/27 or 1/28)
Mon. 1/28 6:30-9:30pm
Tues. 1/29 6:30-9:30pm
Wed. 1/30 6:30-9:30pm
Thurs. 1/31 6:30-10:30pm TECH & DRESS REHEARSAL
Fri. 2/1 6:30-10pm PERFORMANCE at 7:30, after EBONY FIRST FRIDAY
Sat. 2/2 1:30pm-4pm PERFORMANCE at 2:30