It was just a read-through of a scene, without a costume or stage blocking, but the switches in writer and actor Austin Dean Ashford’s tone of voice were more than enough to convey switches in character: a wistful, optimistic young teacher, and an older, weathered but hopeful mentor. Later on in the reading, a harried school principal, and four students with whom that young teacher was going to have to prove himself. Director Dexter Singleton listened intently, and took notes.
Ashford and Singleton were doing a read-through, getting ready for a run of Ashford’s Black Book, a one-man show through Collective Consciousness Theatre running at Bregamos Community Theatre, 491 Blatchey Ave., May 10 through May 25.
