The Black Swamp Players will be holding auditions for a production of Jane Martin’s “Talking With” on March 22 and 23 from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Auditions will take place on Zoom. Those interested should sign up for a 10-minute audition slot at http://bit.ly/BSP Talking and should prepare one of three monologue excerpts available at the sign up page.

“Talking With” calls for a cast of 11 females; auditions are open to cis, trans and non-binary people.

Composed of 11 monologues, “Talking With” introduces audiences to a kaleidoscope of idiosyncratic women–from a career baton twirler to a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex-rodeo rider, an old woman who claims to have seen a man healed by a Big Mac, and many more.

The play premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club in October 1982 under the direction of Jon Jory. It received the 1982 American Theatre Critics Association Award for best regional play, and the playwright herself was dubbed “[a] dramatist with an original voice . . . and gladsome humor” by the New York Times.

The production will be directed by Heath Diehl, and will be performed at the Ohio Theatre in Toledo on May 20, 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. and May 23 at 2 p.m.

The play is being produced in collaboration with Children’s Theatre Workshop and Actors Collaborative Toledo as part of a resilience grant awarded to the three organizations through the Greater Toledo Community Foundation.

Those interested may contact president@black swamp players.org.