by David Feldshuh

Director: David M. Thomas
Crew:
Julianna 'Juls' Bogdan
Steve Charnock
Brian Donohue

June 16, 17, 23, 24, 30 & July 1 at 8:00 in the evening

Eunice Evers: Rhonda Gayle Carney
Caleb Humphries: Jason Nious
Willie Johnson: Terry Spann
Ben Washington: George Mayfield
Hodman Bryan: Kenny Cooper
Dr. Eugene Brodus: Earl Harris
Dr. John Douglas: David Timmerman

March 18, 19, and April 1 at 1 pm at the Amphitheatre
Actors may also make an appointment to audition if they are not available on these dates — just email or call and we will do our best to be available at your convenience. No experience is necessary. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script and possibly some improvisation.  

Disease and unease — The good-time feeling of the ensemble in the passionate historical play "Miss Evers' Boys" is only a setup for the devastating deterioration of the same characters as the infamous Tuskegee experiments take their toll. This play is closely based on the true events of the shameful Tuskegee project ("Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male"), for which the few survivors received a formal apology from President Clinton in 1997. Heat-haze and sultry music evoke the sensuality of the poverty-stricken, deep south. The questions asked by the Senate committee chairman are precisely those that viewers want to ask. Superb performances will create a plausible answer to one of the most baffling questions of all: why the black Miss Evers (in real life Nurse Rivers) might have participated in this unethical project for so many years. At the end, her passivity finally erupts in anger: "If these men had been white," she tells the committee, "they would have been treated! And the federal government would not have renewed the grant year after year."

Reservations can be made by email, phone 301-392-9901, or online form.