Auditions at Meramec Theatre

Jesus Hopped The “A” Train Auditions
By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Michelle Rebollo
AUDITION DATES:
December 6 & 7 at 7:30 p.m. Meramec Theatre

Open call for:

1F( 20-30’s)
4M (Need Hispanic & African American Actors 20-30’s)

SLCC-Meramec Theatre
Kirkwood MO 63139
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For scripts or further information call the Box Office at 984-7562
PERFORMANCE DATES:
February 21-24, 2007 at 8 p.m.
February 25 at 2 p.m.
SYNOPSIS:
“Its aggressive high-octane style is like a shot of caffeine straight
in the veins” – Lyn Gardner, Guardian
Angel Cruz, a poor Puerto Rican, isn’t sure why he’s in jail after
shooting Reverend Kim, the born-again
Christian who brainwashed his best friend. ‘All I did was shoot him
in the ass’, he explains to his longsuffering lawyer Mary Hanrahan.
But when the Reverend dies in the hospital, Angel lands in solitary
confinement next to Lucius, a card-carrying Christian serial-killer.
Angel holds out that he was justified and
his lawyer’s sure that a hearts-and-minds appeal will get him off at
trial. But then, in a knife-edge final
discussion before Lucius is sent to the electric chair, Angel
extraordinarily finds that he too is turning
towards the faith that he has so far shunned, thus jeopardizing his
own case against the born-agains. This is
a truth-telling, cage-ratting play about faith, justice and
diminishing options within our American prisons.

http://www.stlcc.edu/mc/dept/theatre

Michelle Rebollo
Assistant Professor
Theatre & Communications
mrebollo@stlcc.edu