Free Casting Calls and Auditions

CityParks Theater and Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre are accepting submissions for a non-equity production of Amiri Baraka’s THE TOILET. Director: Rony Clanton. Please send pictures and resumes to Lawrence Evans, 566 West 159th Street, #62, New York, NY 10032-6915. Auditions will be held in early July by appointment only.

Rehearsal dates: TBA. Performs August 6-7, 2008 at the East River Amphitheater in lower Manhattan with one additional performance in the Bronx. Total of three performances. Some pay.

The Toilet was first presented at the St. Marks Playhouse in New York on December 16, 1964. It explores the emotional strife and volatile interactions of a gay youth and gang of teens. The Toilet, as Baraka has written, ” is a play about love. It is a play about a love between a white boy and a black boy, a love which, because of the social order in which the black people live, cannot be expressed on any level.”

NOTE: This play contains very strong language.

ALL ACTORS MUST BE ABLE TO PORTRAY 16-20 YEARS OF AGE.

The following character descriptions were taken from the published script.

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS:
ORA (Big Shot): Black male. Short in stature, crude, loud.
WILLIE LOVE: - Black male. Tall, thin, should have been sensitive.
HINES: Black male. Big, husky garrulous. He and LOVE are closest friends.
JOHNNY BOY HOLMES: Black male. Short, curly hair. Bright, fast, likable.
PERRY: Black male. Tall, dark, somber, cynical.
GEORGE DAVIS: Black male. Tall, thin, crudely elegant. Judicious.
SKIPPY: Black male. Quick, Rather stupid but interested. Someone to be trusted.
KNOWLES: Black male. Large and ridiculous.
DONALD FARRELL: White male. Tall, thin, blonde.
FOOTS (Ray): Black male. Short, intelligent, manic. Possessor of a threatened empire.
KAROLIS: White male. Medium height. Very skinny and not essentially attractive except when he speaks.