Casting Tituba

Finding someone to play the part of Tituba has been tough. I did not want to go down the route of using face paint and stage make up to darken somebody up. I was also afraid of finding a dodgy accent.
There are not a lot of women in Clonmel with dark skin. This is a fact. We could not sit back and hope that somebody would just turn up. I decided tahat I had to pro-actively find some one. I was very lucky that Lilly a young Portoguese woman agreed to read the part for me. I was doubly lucky that she read so well.
So, another part done. All that's left are four women and ten men. At this point in time I have nine women reading for the four parts and fourteen men for the ten. This will inevitably mean disappointing people. Hate doing it but it has to be done.