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ANTEBELLUM focuses on themes of social injustice as it intercuts between two alternate stories throughout the play: one which takes place in Atlanta in 1939, the other in Germany in 1936. The Atlanta plot-line centers on a young Jewish couple living in the South who dress up in Civil War era attire to attend the premiere of Gone with the Wind. In Berlin, a Third Reich officer at a Nazi death camp is in love with his prisoner, a Black, male cabaret performer, yet still allows him to be tortured.
SARAH ROCA
EDNA BLACK ROCK*
OSKAR von SCHLEICHER
GABRIEL GIFT*
ARIEL ROCA
(*Edna and Gabriel may be played by the same performer.)
Casting Note:
It is very important to me that when it comes to casting Antebellum, that the most exciting choices are made. This play was originally conceived to have Edna and Gabriel be played by two different people of two different genders. And while neither character is written as transgendered, I encourage all productions to open up ALL parts to ALL communities that our glorious world has given manifest and find the most interesting actors available. In addition, there is a world in which Edna and Gabriel are played by the same person, but it’s very important that each character remain distinct and varied. Gabriel is a male performer and completely comfortable with his gender and the way he walks through life. Edna has chosen to live her life as a woman. Ariel and Oskar are both males struggling with their identities. Sarah is a woman-child in search of unconditional love. Those are the characters. The actors on the other hand can and should be from any and every experience of humanity.
Time
The late 1930s.
Place
The living room of the Roca Household in a “Plantation” style home. Atlanta.
Connected to:
The library/study of Commandant von Schleicher on a concentration camp. Germany.
Note on Setting:
It is important that the two settings “read” as one home. An Atlanta and Germany “bleeding” into one another.
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