Brown TAPS' Sock & Buskin Present

BARBECUE
by Robert O’Hara
directed by Jarrett Key ‘13

Performances: 
February 29 - March 10
Leeds Theatre

Barbecue centers on around the O'Mallerys, a dysfunctional group of siblings who come together for a park barbeque in order to stage an emergency intervention for their sister Barbara, whose drug habit has gotten out of hand. However, there are in fact two O'Mallery families, one white and one Black. Each appears in different, yet similar scenes that juxtapose to create a dialogue about racial and family politics.

AUDITIONS
Stuart Theatre, 75 Waterman Street
Thursday, Nov 30: 6 - 10PM
Friday, December 1: 6 - 10 PM

CALLBACKS
Saturday, December 2: 11AM - 3 PM
Students must be available for the full call-back time.

Audition Slots will be 10-minutes long. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before your slot time and sign in at the audition table.
Auditions are open to all Brown University and RISD students.

SIGN UP FOR AN AUDITION SLOT HERE: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yOixtofxebdwqT2kCqB4iX1KxFAfErT2N3kvHxTRMD0/edit?usp=sharing

For Auditions, please prepare:

1. One monologue from this link (monologues do not need to be memorized): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dh7WEu3NKR4JoYkY00bviCzxgey00Gs0
2. The director would like you to prepare a joke

CASTING NOTE: Casting can be racially flexible for the white siblings. We welcome people of all gender identities to audition.

CHARACTER LIST FROM SCRIPT:
James T - White Man, 40/50ish
Lillie Anne - White Woman, 50/60ish
Barbara - White Woman, 30/40ish
Marie - White Woman, 40/50ish
Adlean - White Woman, 40/50ish
James T - Black Man
Lillie Anne - Black Woman
Barbara - Black Woman
Marie - Black Woman
Adlean - Black Woman

Jarrett Key ‘13 (b. 1990, Seale, AL) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Jarrett grew up in rural Alabama and pursued their fine art practice in New York City after graduating from Brown University in 2013. They received their MFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2020. Jarrett is represented by 1969 Gallery in New York, where they had their first solo exhibition, From the Ground, Up in March 2022. In 2023, Key completed a 40ft mural commission for HMTX Industries in Norwalk, CT. One of their hair performance paintings was also the NYC Pride Grandstand Backdrop at the 2023 Pride Parade. Jarrett has had the pleasure to work with actors, production teams, and institutions throughout NYC and New England, including The Public Theater, The Juilliard School, Brown University, and The Fruitlands Museum among others. Recent fine art exhibitions include Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender, curated by Mara Hassan, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; Wade, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Freedom Dreams, Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY; New England Triennial, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; out, co-curated by Jarrett Key and Jon Key, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; Young, Gifted and Black, The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; and This is America, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany. Their work was also included in Untitled Miami Beach in 2021 and 2022. They were one of Forbes 30 under 30 for Art and Style 2020. Key’s work is in the collections of the the Green Family Art Foundation, HMTX Industries, New York Historical Society, The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection, the Columbus Museum, Brown University, RISD Special Collection, the Schomburg Center, the Museum of Modern Art Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, among other institutions.

For any questions, please contact the Production Director, B Reo, barbara_reo@brown.edu