*BUTA PRESENTS Winter 2012*
Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis

From the same group that brought you August Wilson’s Fences and George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum.

Blitz "BUTA" for an AUDITION slot by SUNDAY!
(Actors of all ethnicities needed, multiracial cast)
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Hilarious and critically acclaimed playwright, Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Our Lady of 121st Street was awarded 10 best plays of 2003; Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Best Play Nominations.

Plot: The people who cared most for Sister Rose, a nun known for her needle exchanges, anti-alcoholism and anti-gang violence programs, gather at a funeral home in Harlem to pay their last respects, only to find that her body has been stolen.

While awaiting her proper return, colorful neighborhood citizens try to confront their grief, checkered pasts and their uncertain futures. You'll meet Rooftop, a chronically unfaithful but otherwise popular Los Angeles DJ; Pinky and Edwin, two brothers tragically linked forever; and the outrageously angry Norca, who slept with her best friend Inez's husband.

The rest of the crowd in this dark, insightful and very funny comedy inevitably square off with each other, motivated by rage, pain and a scary desire to come clean—perhaps for the first time.

CHARACTERS:
(8 Men 4 Women)

Victor, Italian-American, early fifties.
Balthazar, Latino, mid-thirties. An alcoholic detective, is investigating the disappearance of the body.
Rooftop, African American, mid-forties. Professional DJ and radio personality, Inez's ex husband.
Father Lux, white, mid-seventies. Sympathetic and paraplegic priest.
Flip, African American, thirty seven. A successful attorney.
Gail, white, thirty seven. Flip's closeted gay lover, flamboyant actor.
Inez, African American, late thirties. Rooftop's ex-wife.
(Nasty) Norca, Latina late thirties. Foul-mouthed, neighborhood crackhead.
Edwin, Latino, late thirties. Local Apartment house superintendent.
Pinky, Latino late thirties. Edwin's mentally challenged brother.
Marcia, white mid-thirties. Rose’s very neurotic niece, is in from Staten Island.
Sonia, white, early thirties. Displaced. From Connecticut,

Actors, Actresses, and Crew Needed! See below for details.

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Reviews

“The best new play in a decade…Mr. Guirgis writes in infectious, liberating fury and sadness. No one can be this funny without feeling the pain of being alive and, in the end, you’ll surely find yourselves moved by his bruised characters in search of some kind of grace and weird redemption.” –The New York Observer

''Our Lady of 121st Street,'' Mr. Guirgis presents a whole network of tempers, smoldering and prone to startling eruption. From the opening scene, when a man who has had his pants stolen gives vent to a blistering rage in an interview with a police detective, the play is packed with explosive rants and vivid shouting matches.” -Bruce Weber, The New York Times

"Guirgis has a hilarious, sympathetic, terrific ear . . . he heightens the rhythms of the street until there is a brilliant, buoyant cacophony." -The New York Post