Pass Over
by Ground Floor Theatre

May. 13

Moses and Kitch stand around on the corner – talking shit, passing the time, and hoping that  maybe today will be different. As they dream of their promised land, a stranger wanders into their space with his own agenda and derails their plans. Emotional and lyrical, Pass Over crafts everyday profanities into poetic and humorous riffs, exposing the unquestionable human spirit of young men stuck in a cycle just looking for a way out.

A provocative riff on Waiting for Godot, Pass Over is a rare piece of politically charged theater by a bold new American voice.

A startling play examining the cyclical ravages of racial injustice and violence on two young black men, by an extraordinary voice in American theater.


Praise for Pass Over (via Google.com)

“Searing. . . . Blazingly theatrical. . . . Moses and Kitch are a dispossessed team like [Beckett’s] Vladimir and Estragon, stuck in an existential cycle of hopelessness they try to master with gallows humor and jags of deluded optimism. . . . Creates a vivid world of injustice while riffing on earlier. . . . Resonates as a powerful tragedy.” ―New York Times

“Chilling. . . . Combines daring near-experimental form and brutal content: what’s at work is not some mysterious cosmic existentialism à la Beckett, but very real, very tangible racism.” ―New Yorker

“In the insanity of a city filled with guns, and people ready and willing to use them whenever temperatures rise, waiting isn’t so much a malaise as a badge of survival. That’s one of the takeaways of Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over, a very potent and promising play. . . . The language in the work is thrilling, poetical.” ―Chicago Tribune

Source: Publisher

 

[graphic is from cover of the Grove Atlantic edition]

 

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Ground Floor Theatre
Announces auditions for 

Pass Over

By Antoinette Nwandu

 

Ground Floor Theatre is holding auditions for Pass Over, written by Antoinette Nwandu and directed by Simone Raquel Alexander.

GFT is seeking actors to fill the roles of Moses and Kitch.

Auditions will be held at Ground Floor Theatre (979 Springdale Rd. at Airport) on May 13 starting at 7pm. 

Auditions will be by appointment only and will consist of readings from the script.

All positions are paid an honorarium.

Ground Floor Theatre is committed to inclusivity and as such unless specifically called for in the script, we cast without consideration to ability, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, size, or shape. Auditioners should bring a resume and headshot with them.

Casting actors for the following characters:

• MOSES – black, male, late teens/early 20s. a young man from the ghetto. brokenhearted. courageous. angry. sad
  but also a slave driver
  but also the prophesied leader of God’s chosen
• KITCH – black, male, late teens/early 20s. a young man from the ghetto and Moses’ best friend. jovial. loyal. kind. naïve. a lovely friend to have
  but also a slave
  but also one of God’s chosen 

Content Warning; gun shots, intense adult themes, strong language

Performances will be August 15-31, 2024, with rehearsals beginning in early July.

Auditioners should bring a resume and headshot with them.

For an appointment, please email Lisa@groundfloortheatre.org