FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS - Headshot/resume submissions
Quintessence Theatre Group | Philadelphia, PA
Notice: Submission
SPT
$600 weekly minimum (SPT 6)
Equity actors for roles in FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WAR (see breakdown).
Please submit your resume and headshot for consideration.
Deadline: 04/05/2024
Artistic@QuintessenceTheatre.org
FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS - Headshot/resume submissions
Artistic Director: Alex Burns
Casting Associate: Eleni Delopolous Director: Raelle Myrick Hodges
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home From the Wars – Parts 1, 2 & 3
First Rehearsal: May 1, 2024
Opening: June 1, 2024
Closing: June 23, 2024
OTHER
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
Hero (30s – 40s) is an enslaved Texan and the protagonist. Loyal to Boss-Master despite his abuse and disloyalty, Hero chooses to stay with Boss-Master even when opportunities to escape arise. By the end of the play, Hero remains loyal, but chooses his own identity.
Boss-Master (50s – 60s) also called “the Colonel,” owns slaves Hero, Homer, Penny and others. Dishonest and manipulative, Boss-Master periodically promises Hero freedom in exchange for huge requests he makes of him, but never follows through.
Homer (30s – 50s) Homer is an enslaved person. On Boss-Master’s orders, Hero cut off Homer’s foot when he tried to escape. He lives with Hero and falls in love with Hero’s wife, Penny.
Penny (20s – 40s) is Hero’s wife and remains emotionally loyal to Hero. When he returns from the war with a new wife, however, she takes agency over her own life and decides to run north.
Odd-See or Odyssey is Hero’s good-luck dog. He runs off after Hero kicks him. And returns at the end, having spent the play searching for his master, staying loyal despite the abuse.
Smith (30s – 40s) is a Union soldier wounded and captured by the Colonel. He reveals his true identity—a Black man who can “pass” as white—to Hero when he tries to convince Hero to abandon Boss-Master and join the Union army.
The Oldest Old Man (60s – 80s) lives with Hero on Boss-Master’s land. He offers advice to Hero and treats him like a son but abandons him when he hears how Hero betrayed Homer.
The Chorus (20s – 60s) is a group of four enslaved persons whose conversations give the audience information and insight.
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