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Agape Theatre Troupe seeks five black women, ages 17-56, for
A SONG FOR CORETTA by Pearl Cleage.

The play will have three performances at the Lexington Opera House on January 27 & 28. Open auditions 6-8 PM Tues. & Wed., Nov. 1 & 2 at Imani Baptist Church, 1555 Georgetown Rd. Cold readings from the script. Info: 361-0654.

ABOUT THE PLAY

On February 6, 2006, people began ligning up at dawn outside of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church to pay their respects to the late Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose body lay in state in the small sanctuary. By mid-morning, the crowd wound down the street and around the corner of the old red brick building. People of all ages stood patiently for hours, waiting to say goodbye. Sometimes they murmured to each other quietly. Sometimes they shared memories of Mrs. King’s extraordinary life and expressed sorrow at her passing. When a cold rain began to fall at sunset, those who had thought to bring umbrellas shared them with those whose resolve was the only thing not dampened by the drizzle. At close to midnight, the crowd had dwindled to a determined few. The five fictional women in this play are at the end of that long line of mourners.

Pearl Cleage is an Atlanta-based playwright of such plays as Flyin' West, Blues for An Alabama Sky, Bourbon at the Border, Late Bus to Mecca, and Chain. Pearl is also a best selling author whose first novel, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day, was an Oprah Book Club pick and spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Her subsequent novels have been consistent best sellers and perennial book club favorites. I Wish I Had A Red Dress, her second novel, won multiple book club awards in 2001. Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do, was a "Good Morning America!" book club pick in 2003, and Babylon Sisters made the ESSENCE Magazine best seller list in 2005. Her most recent novel, Baby Brother's Blues, was the first pick of the new ESSENCE Book Club and an NAACP Image Award winner for fiction in 2007.