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F*CKING A Audition/Character Breakdowns

By August 17, 2017August 21st, 2017Fall 2017 Auditions

F*CKING A by Suzan-Lori Parks, stage reading directed by Aubrey Mann, Sept. 15, 2017

Hester borns a letter A on her skin for Abortionist. The play starts out with Hester and her friend Canary Mary talking about Canary’s affair with the Mayor. Hester is working on saving money to buy her boy’s freedom from prison. Hester finally gets enough money with the help from the Butcher to have a Picnic with her son. We later find out it wasn’t her son because he was supposedly killed in there. Even later on in the show we find out Monster the escaped prisoner is her boy. The First lady married to the Mayor is pregnant, but she doesn’t know whose child it is and she dears it could be Monster’s. At the end of the show Hester finds out Monster is her boy and before the Hunters can come and take him away and beat and kill him she slits his throat and continues with her work

AUDITIONS/CALLBACKS Tuesday, August 22  (Chapman Theatre in Nichols Hall) & Wednesday, August 23  in Nichols Hall Room 007, Callbacks posted Tuesday night kstatemtd.com

Initial auditions will be during open/cattle call auditions on Tuesday, Aug. 22 from 7-10:30pm in Chapman Theatre. See post HERE. During callbacks, please be prepared to read sides from the script, so please read the script beforehand and be familiar with it. Reading copies of the script are available in McCain 109.

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

Hester Smith- African American Female

Canary Mary-African American Female

The Mayor- Caucasian Male

First Lady- Caucasian Female

Butcher- African American Male

 

The following roles will be split between 5 actors accordingly:

Scribe- Non-specific Gender role

First Hunter- Non-specific race Female

Second Hunter- Non-specific

Third Hunter- African American Male

Jailbait- African American Male

Guard- Non-specific Gender role

Freedom Fund Lady- Non-specific race Female

Waiting Woman #1- Non-specific race Female

Waiting Woman #2 –Non-Specific race female

3 Freshly Freed Prisoners- Non-specific race female, non-specific gender and a African American Male

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