Trouble in Mind

By Alice Childress

Directed by Sandra Adell

Broadway, 1957. An integrated theater company gathers to rehearse a new play — likely the next big hit on the Great White Way. A veteran African-American actress must choose between a once-in-a-lifetime lead role, and fighting for her principles, as her white director and playwright fail to consider objections to their representations of African American lives. Trouble in Mind is a groundbreaking backstage story in a racial milieu far too familiar six decades after it won an Obie Award.

A co-production of the University of Wisconsin Afro-American Studies Department and the Kathie Rasmussen Women's Theatre at Bartell Theater's Drury Stage, 113 E. Mifflin St. , Madison

Performances: February 22 - March 9, 2019

Performance Times:
Friday, Feb 22, 8pm
Saturday, Feb 23, 8pm
Matinee Sunday, Feb 24, 2pm

Brush-up on Wed Feb 27, 8pm -- tickets "donate what you can"
Thrifty Thursday Thurs Feb 28, 8pm
Friday March 1, 8pm
Saturday March 2, 8pm
Matinee Sunday March 3, 2pm

Thrifty Thursday Thurs March 7, 8pm
Friday March 8, 8pm
Saturday March 9, 8pm

Ticket Prices: $20 except Thrifty Thursdays ($15) and Wednesday (donate what you can).

Call 608-661-9696 for reservations or more information.

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Auditions

Auditions will be held on the following days:

9/10/2018
9/11/2018

Auditions will be in the UW Department of Afro-American Studies' conference room at  4123 Helen C. White, from 7:00-8:30 pm.

Request a pdf of the script from Krass Artistic Director Jan Levine Thal janlevinethal@gmail.com

Come either night at 7pm, dressed to move. Please bring a headshot and resume if possible. You will read from the script.

Rehearsals will be 4 or 5 days a week beginning January 6 Sunday through Thursday, 6:30-10pm. Place TBA.

Some roles have been pre-cast but these are still needed:
Sheldon Forrester -- African American man 40s-60s
John Nevins -- African American man 20s or so
Judy Sears -- White woman 20s or so
Eddie Fenten -- White man, adult any age