<div><div dir="auto">HARBINGER AUDITIONS 2/19 & 2/20</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><img src="cid:18cede4f2dc743e91bf1" style="width:624px;max-width:100%"></div></div><div dir="auto">Harbinger's second production of 2024 is the non-Equity Capital Region Premiere of "The Squirrels" by Robert Askins ("Hand to God"). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Email <a href="mailto:white.patrick1963@gmail.com" target="_blank">white.patrick1963@gmail.com</a> to schedule auditions.</div><div dir="auto">Monday, 2/19 and Tuesday, 2/20 </div><div dir="auto">319 Hamilton Street</div><div dir="auto">Albany, NY 12210</div><div dir="auto">6:30-9:30pm. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Squirrels by Robert Askins </div><div dir="auto">Directed by Patrick White </div><div dir="auto">Harbinger @ Sand Lake Center for the Arts </div><div dir="auto">2880 Rte 43, Averill Park, 12018 </div><div dir="auto">6/21-6/30, FREE Preview 6/20 </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">"Winter is on the way and the squirrels are restless. Mistrust is growing between the rich Gray Squirrels and the outcast Fox Squirrels. When a wily outsider gets in the mix, he ignites an epic animal kingdom soap opera teeming with rebel armies, conspiracy, love and family loyalties. No squirrel will go unharmed in this deliciously-demented new comedy from Tony Award nominee Robert Askins."</span></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> “The fast-paced 90-minute play…is a witty black comedy about a mixed-race squirrel family decimated by prejudice and greed. Writ large, it’s an apocalyptic tale of America’s cultural divide…[Askins] drops a thought bomb…about our responsibility for the destruction of the environment and for the care of one’s fellow squirrel (and otherwise).” —San Diego Union-Tribune </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">“The Squirrels is [an] allegory that launches salvos at current events, framed by a potential apocalypse…Beneath the satire, the play raises serious questions, in particular, why does inequality reign?”
—San Diego Reader </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> ALL ETHNICITIES, GENDERS AND AGES CONSIDERED...we're casting squirrels. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Scurius-Great old grey squirrel. Big. Fat-ish. The greatest gatherer of nuts the forest ever saw. Now gone to seed. Father to Chordata. Partner to Mammalia. Adopted father to Rodentia.</span></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">MAMMALIA HAS BEEN PRECAST </div><div dir="auto">Mammalia-Scurius’s wife who puts up with his idiosyncrasies and tries to keep him from doing anything stupid. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Chordata-Squirrel sexy, squirrel smart. She knows the forest is changing. Their daughter is in love with a red squirrel. Naive teenager who leads with her heart.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Carolinensis- Idealistic red squirrel torn between love for Chordata and the hunger of his comrades, being starved by Sciurus' overly zealous nut hoarding. It is the dead of winter and mating season is coming. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Rodentia-Red squirrel adopted daughter of Scurius. She swims with the tide that raises her boat.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Sciuridae/Scientist-A manipulative opportunist, out to make the tree great again -- for gray squirrels. He plays on Sciurus's pride and insecurity to create a rift between gray and red that spins out of control. The scientist is not a real scientist. He's a cartoon scientist. Make of that what you will. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Squirrel Ensemble-2 or 3 actors to bring the squirrel world to life with movement and nut changes. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Contact Patrick White for sides. <a href="mailto:white.patrick1963@gmail.com" target="_blank">white.patrick1963@gmail.com</a> </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">20 rehearsals will be Sunday through Wednesday 6:30-9:30. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> "We're going to bite and claw and scratch until today looks like yesterday." </div>
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