Theatre

NEW TSRC PRODUCTION of "CONVERSATION WITH A KLEAGLE"
By Rudy Gray, Directed by Cristina Alicea
Non-Equity Theatrical Production. No Pay.

FIRST PRIZE WINNER - NEW WORKS OF MERIT PLAYWRITING CONTEST 2004

Synopsis: Inspired by events in the life of a civil rights leader, the playtakes place during the height of a lynching epidemic in the late 1920s. A black writer, passing for white, travels to the deep South to interview akleagle (a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan). When his true racial identity is discovered he escapes, only to find that his rescuer's family paid a dear price, a price that brings the writer back down south to confront the kleagle and theKlan.

Characters: All actors, with the exception of the character Wilmer Cossette,must be proficient in a southern dialect.
RANDALL MONAHAN a burly white male in his 30s/40s
JOHN WATSON- a very light-skinned Black male 30s or light-skinned Hispanic male 30s
TOOKIE- a large black male, 40s, with an obsequious, self-effacing manner
CONDUCTOR- white male, 30s/40s
YOUNG JOHN WATSON a 13yr old, light-skinned black male or light-skinnedHispanic male
LURINDA WATSON- Johns Mother, light-skinned black or light-skinned Hispanicwoman, 30s/40sROD WATSON- Johns Father, a black male, 30s/40s
WILMER COSSETTE - a black male, 40s, newspaper managing editor
JASON BOWLING- Governors assistant, white man, 30s/40s/or50s
EPHRAM- white male, 20s, a roughneck/vagabond farmer
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