AUDITION FOR THE PLAY
BLACK COUNTRY
A ONE ACT PLAY


DATE March 4, 2010

TIME 5:30 to 7pm

PLACE:  Empresso Coffee Shop
1825 Pacific Ave
(Miracle Mile)
Stockton, Ca



AUDITION FOR THE PART OF SHALEENA AND NANA.  
"SHALEENA" (AGE 15 - 25)
"NANA"
(Any age over 55)
The parts requires a little singing.  You do not have to be a good singer just lively.

You do not have to commit to memory at this time.  You can read the part if you like.

Questions? Contact
Ernest Johnson
Director

(209-470-5554)
zoodooz484@gmail.com


THIS IS A FUN LITTLE PLAY AND
I INVITE ALL TO TAKE PART.  
WHO KNOWS, YOU MAY BE THE
NEXT BIG STAR JUST WAITING
TO BE DISCOVERED!

BLACK COUNTRY

OPENING AUDITION SCENE:

Nana and Papa talking as Shaleena arrives to interview her Papa for a book she is writing.
Papa speaks first:

PAPA:  YEP, ALWAYS IN A HURRY...GIRL WHAT HAPPEN TO YOUR LEG?

SHALEENA:  HURT IT PLAYING VOLLEY BALL.

PAPA:  YEA,  RIGHT. I BET YOU HURT IT CHASING THOSE LITTLE BOYS.

SHALEENA: PAPA I DON’T CHASE LITTLE BOYS… (With a sly smile on face) WELL MAYBE
JUST ONE.  A BOY FROM MORADA, BUT HE DIDN’T PASS THE TEST.

NANA:  TEST??  WHAT TEST?


PAPA:  TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT THE TEST.
.

SHALEENA:   PAPA TOLD ME ABOUT A LITTLE TEST I SHOULD GIVE BOYS WHO WANTED
MY TELEPHONE NUMBER. THIS IS HOW IT WORKS
.   
IF A BOY ASK ME FOR MY PHONE NUMBER AND I DON’T WANT HIM TO HAVE IT, ALL I HAD
TO DO WAS TO ASK HIM TO SPELL “KUMQUAT/CUMQUAT” AND IF HE COULD SPELL
KUMQUAT, HE COULD HAVE MY NUMBER. BOYS ARE SO DUMB.

WELL THIS ONE GUY I REALLY WANTED HIM TO HAVE MY NUMBER, SO I GAVE HIM THREE
QUESTIONS.

NANA:  TWO OUT OF THREE?

SHALEENA:  NO, ONE OUT OF THREE! BUT HE DID NOT PASS THE TEST ANYWAY.

FIRST, HE COULD NOT SPELL KUMQUAT.  THEN HE DIDN’T KNOW IF IT WAS ORGANIC OR
INORGANIC, AND THEN HE DIDN’T KNOW IF IT WAS A BIRD OR A PLANT…HE WAS REALLY
DUMB!  SEE YOU!

PAPA:  (Looking at audience, and says under his breath). That girl is never going to get married.

SHALEENA. (LOOKING AT KEYBOARD)  Papa, are you ever going to learn to play that thing?  

PAPA:  Girl, you and your Nana! Sweetheart, what is this about?

Rehearseal at Empresso Coffee House