Theatre Play "Update on To Kill a Mockingbird" Needs Talent
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Seeking performers for Theatre Play "Update on To Kill a Mockingbird". Please see the details below. Additional info: Please come to the audition having recently read Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird.” The script is very close to the book and it is important to be familiar with the content and language. If cast in the show, actors are requested to read the book again during the first week of rehearsals. In addition to the heavy topics of racism, and murder, the n-word is used by several characters multiple times in the show. Due to legal obligations and the importance of its educational use, the script will be used as written. Rehearsals and performances will be a safe, academic space and theatre will be diligent in separating actor life from character life. Theatre is working with community groups and individuals and will be hosting talkbacks on the production. Callbacks are December 12-14 in the evening as needed. Rehearsals are Sundays at 2:30 PM, and Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6:30 PM. Although you, may not be needed for all rehearsals, please prepare to be present. Tech week is February 26-March 2 and performances run Friday, Saturday, Sunday March 3-19. Potential school show days include Thursday and Friday mornings. No conflicts are permitted for tech week or the performances. If you are interested, please apply.
17 roles
She’s Scout, grown older, looking back on the time she was the young Scout.
He’s tall, quietly impressive, reserved, and civilized. He’s quietly courageous and without heroics, he does what he considers just. As someone comments about him – “We trust him to do right.”
Black, proud, and capable, she has raised the motherless Scout and Jem. Her standards are high and her discipline as applied to Scout and Jem is uncompromising.
Heck is the town sheriff and a complex man. He does his duty as he sees it, and enforces the law without favor.
A lovely sensitive woman. Though belonging to the time and place of this play, she has a wisdom and compassion that suggests the best instincts of that period.
A judge is a wintry man of the South, who does what he can within the context of his time to see justice done in court. While he tries to run his court impartially, his sympathy is with Tom.
He is a public prosecutor who is doing his job in trying to convict Tom. In many ways his manner is cruel and hurtful. And yet under all this, he too has expressed doubts as to Tom’s guilt, and his heart isn’t really in this conviction.
Robinson is black, handsome, and vital, but with a left hand crippled by a childhood accident and held against his chest. There’s an undercurrent in him of kindness, sensitivity, and consideration.
The oldest daughter of Bob Ewell, she’s a desperately lonely and overworked young woman whose need for companionship has overwhelmed every other emotion.
Ewell lives with his large family by the town dump. Bob thinks this trial will make him an important man, and when Atticus destroys his credibility, Bob’s rage and frustration border on paranoia.
Sykes is the black minister of the First Purchase Church. He’s an imposing man with a strong stage presence. He should have a strong “minister’s” voice.
Cunningham is a hard-up farmer who shares the prejudices of this time and place but who is nevertheless a man who can be reached as a human being.
She’s a neighborhood gossip, and she enjoys it to the hilt
She is an old woman who is ill and walks with difficulty, her pain making her biting, bitter, and angry.
He is a thin, leathery, laconic man. Nathan is Arthur’s brother and a neighbor of the Finch family.
She is half numb with the shock of the false charge against her husband Tom; she’s someone caught in a nightmare.
Arthur Radley is a recluse who hasn’t been outside his house in fifteen years.
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