AUDITION NOTICE – Crop Over 2015 Heritage Bus Tour

The Event at a Glance –

The National Cultural Foundation will be producing the 2015 Crop Over Heritage Bus Tour entitled “Sweet Stories of Sugar, Molasses and Rum!” – a day-time guided bus tour around selected parishes of Barbados with six (6) stops along the way, where patrons get to experience heritage and history brought to life in exciting theatrical presentations of word, song and dance by some of Barbados’ best performers and designers.

Barbados is known around the world for its rum. And as the title suggests, this tour explores the role of sugar, molasses and rum in shaping the contours, commerce and character of Barbados and Bajans. At the heart of this culturally enhanced tour will be the exciting personalities and stimulating stories that have become a hallmark of the Crop Over Heritage Walks of the last 3 years. Pirates, planters and rum shop proprietors; slaves, skilled factory workers and no-good scallywags will all be brought to life as this entertaining tour reveals everything you have ever wanted to know about the production of sugar and it’s, arguably, most important by-product….Rum!

The tour will take place on Sunday, June 7th, with rehearsals beginning on April 27th.

The production team for this event includes:

– Alison Sealy-Smith (Producer/Director)
– Nancii Yearwood (Production Manager)
– Dr. Henderson Carter (Research Consultant/Writer/Tour Guide)
– Morris Greenidge (Tour Guide)
– Dr. John Hunte (Choreographer)

We Are Looking to Fill the Following Roles –

SPEAKING

Merchant (age: 30’s to 40’s) White, male, English accent
Indentured Servant (age: 20’s to 30’s) White, male, Irish accent
African child (age: 8 to 12) Female, must be skilled actor capable of handling an emotional monologue with an accent
Plantation Owner (40’s to 50’s) White, male. Ability to dance would be an asset.
Plantation Owner’s Wife (40’s to 50’s) White, female. Ability to dance would be an asset
Plantation Owner’s Son (late teens to 20’s) Bi-racial. Must be able to dance with good acting skills
Ancestral Spirit (Any age) Black, female. Good singer. Ability to act and dance would be an asset
3 Rum Drinkers (20’s to 60’s) Skilled comic actors. Ability to sing would be an asset
Rum shop proprietor (30’s to 50’s) Female. Skilled comic actor. Ability to sing would be an asset

NON – SPEAKING

 5 Enslaved African people (late teens to 30’s) 2 male, 3 female
4 dock workers (late teens to 50’s) male

The Audition 411 –

 Please prepare a 2 minute contemporary monologue, a song of your choice and, be prepared for a little improvisation!

Auditions take place Saturday, April 11^th between 2pm and 5pm and Tuesday April 14^th between 5pm and 7pm at the Queen’s Park Steel Shed.

For more information and to book an audition time, contact Alison Sealy-Smith at 417-6651, alison-sealy-smith@ncf.bb or Nancii Yearwood, heritageventsbdos@outlook.com.