Tablework Rehearsals: TBD (3 days in December)
Full Rehearsals Begin January 6
Mandatory Rehearsals (including Tech Week): Jan. 18 – February 5, 2025
Performance Dates: February 6 – March 2, 2025
Performance Times: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays @ 7:30pm, Sundays @ 2pm or 6pm
Appropriate is a Non-Equity production.
*All first round auditions will be via video submission*
Video Submissions Due by August 30
Callbacks: September 7 & 9, in person at the BLUEBARN
See link at the bottom of the page for audition requirements and submissions.
The cicadas are singing, the temperature is rising, and the Lafayette family is returning to Arkansas to deal with what remains of their father’s estate. Toni imagines they’ll spend the weekend honoring Dad’s memory. Bo wants to recoup the cost of his end-of-life care. But when their estranged brother Franz shows up, and Bo’s children discover mysterious and disturbing objects among the clutter, buried resentments erupt and long-hidden secrets emerge. In this provocative dark comedy, the family is forced to revisit the ghosts of their past and face the true meaning of inheritance.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Playwright
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright, producer, Tony Award® winner, and two-time Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist. Recent theatre credits include Appropriate (2024 Tony Award® winner for Best Revival of a Play; 2014 Obie Award, Best New American Play, Signature Theatre), The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre), Girls (Yale Rep), Everybody (Signature Theatre), War (Yale Rep; Lincoln Center/LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), An Octoroon (2014 Obie Award, Best New American Play; Soho Rep, Theatre for a New Audience), and Neighbors (The Public Theater). He was showrunner, executive producer, and writer for HULU/FX’s drama series, Kindred, based on Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking novel. He currently teaches at Yale University and serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council and on the boards of Soho Rep, Park Avenue Armory, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. Honors include a USA Artists fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, the MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award.
Susan Clement, Director (she/her)
Susan has served as BLUEBARN’s Producing Artistic Director since 2002. She has directed numerous productions at the BLUEBARN, beginning with The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me in 1993. OEAA Awards – Best Director: Red Summer (2020), Indecent (2019) The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (2018), Our Town (2015), 39 Steps (2013), Spring Awakening (2012), Seascape (2008); Best Play: Our Town (2015), Red (2013), The Pillowman (2006). As director of the BLUEBARN, Susan alongside Shannon Walenta (Managing Director at the time) spearheaded the capital campaign that enabled the BLUEBARN to build its own stand-alone theater, and saw the dream fulfilled when BLUEBARN moved into its new home at 10th and Pacific in 2015. Susan holds a B.F.A in Theatre/Film from the State University of New York at Purchase Conservatory.
Antoinette “Toni” Lafayette: the oldest sibling, white, late 40’s/early 50’s
Rhys Thurston: her son, white, late teens, 19 to 25
Beauregarde “Bo” Lafayette: the middle sibling, white, late 40’s/early 50’s
Rachael Kramer-Lafayette: his wife, white, late 40’s
Cassidy “Cassie” Kramer-Lafayette: their older child, white, early teens, 14 to 17
Ainsley Kramer-Lafayette: their younger child, white, a child, 9 to 13
Françoise “Franz/Frank” Lafayette: the youngest sibling, white, late 30’s/early 40’s
River Rayner: his fiancée, white, early 20’s but looks younger
1) Please include a SLATE: your name, height, and which character(s) you want to be considered for.
2) We request you submit a comedic or dramatic monologue, or a monologue from a dramedy. The monologue should not exceed three minutes.
3) Video auditions should be full head to toe with a neutral background.
Please follow the link below to submit your auditions materials. If you need assistance or encounter technical difficulties, please contact BLUEBARN’s Production Manager Amy Reiner at areiner@bluebarn.org, with the email subject line ‘Appropriate Auditions.’
BLUEBARN Theatre acknowledges the historic exclusion and lack of opportunity for artists who identify as Global Majority (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), LGBTQIA2S+, neuro-diverse, and artists with disabilities. We are actively working against the field-wide implicit bias and systemic inequities that result in default white, cis, heteronormative casting. BLUEBARN is likewise committed to countering all modes of discrimination in casting.
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