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AUDITIONS
Miss Evers' Boys
By David Feldshuh
Directed by LaFrederick Thirkill
In Celebration of the Civil Rights Movement and Black History Month 2010
December 12: 1 PM – 3 PM
December 13: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Barking Legs
Theatre
(1307 Dodds Ave., Chattanooga, TN 37404-4756)
423-624-5347
Play Synopsis
In an effort to get medical help for Alabama tenant farmers, their nurse, Miss Evers, convinces them to join a government study to treat venereal disease. When the money runs out, Nurse Evers is faced with a difficult decision: to tell the men that they are no longer being treated and that they are now part of a research study to see what untreated syphilis will do to them, or follow the lead of the doctor she respects and the tenets of the nursing profession.
Nurse Evers follows the advice of her advisors, and with the understanding that the study can help thousands more, she does not tell the men they are no longer receiving medication. She does this with the assurance that as soon as medication becomes available, her men will be the first to receive it. But after fourteen years of caring for her patients as if they were family, when medication is finally available, it is denied to her study group.
Nurse Evers, devastated at the news and starting to watch her men die, can no longer keep silent. Shunned for her silence of fourteen years, Nurse Evers holds her head up and explains the reasons and emotions that kept her in the study and kept her caring for her men. Some of them forgive her, others do not, as Nurse Evers tries to put back a world broken by prejudice, disease, time and trust.
All Charcters are African American except Dr. John Douglas
Characters: (1) woman, (6) Man
Eunice Evers…………….28, a public health nurse
Dr. Eugene Brodus……..40, Administrative Head, Memorial Hospital Tuskegee Alabama
Dr. John Douglas……….34, Field Physican, United States Public Health Service
Willie Johnson…………..19, tenant farmer
Caleb Humphries………..25, tenant farmer
Hodman Bryan………….37, tenant farmer
Ben Washington…………57, tenant farmer
For more information contact: destinytheatre@gmail.com or (423) 242-5156
* AUDITIONS are open to the general public and everyone is encouraged to attend
Black Nativity
Written By Langston Hughes
Choreographer: Dawn Axam
November 22: 3:30 PM
Barking Legs Theatre
(1307 Dodds Ave., Chattanooga, TN 37404-4756)
423-624-5347
This gospel musical explosion is inspired by renowned poet Langston Hughes. Black Nativity celebrates the “greatest story ever told,” the traditional Christmas story, using a soulful point of view and distinct energy of the black urban church. Powerful narration and glorious gospel music fill the stage in a jubilant expression of human love, joy and celebration. Black Nativity is an uplifting musical experience for the whole family, people of all persuasions, religious and secular alike.
“it all began with that first Star in Bethlehem almost two thousand years ago – the Star that brought us to the Manger to kneel at the feet of Christ.”
Langston Hughes
Characters:
Joseph .......... Dancer
Mary .............. Dancer
Must have experience in various types of dance. Please bring headshot and resume with you if you have them.
