<div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div style="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:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:0.9375rem" dir="auto"><div><img src="cid:18db2468c733fac1e741" style="max-width: 100%;"></div><br></div><div style="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:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:0.9375rem" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="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:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:0.9375rem" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="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:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:0.9375rem" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="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:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:0.9375rem">Harbinger's second production of 2024 is the non-Equity Capital Region Premiere of "The Squirrels" by Robert Askins ("Hand to God").</div><div style="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:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:0.9375rem">Email<span> </span><a href="mailto:white.patrick1963@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(66,133,244);font-size:0.9375rem">white.patrick1963@gmail.com</a><span> </span>for scheduled auditions Monday, 2/19 and Tuesday, 2/20 from 6:30-9:30pm. </div><div style="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:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:0.9375rem" dir="auto">Auditions will be held at 319 Hamilton Street, Albany, NY 12210.</div><div style="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:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:0.9375rem">The Squirrels by Robert Askins<br>Directed by Patrick White<br>Harbinger @ Sand Lake Center for the Arts<br>2880 Rte 43, Averill Park, 12018<br>6/21-6/30, FREE Preview 6/20</div><div style="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:1px;text-decoration:none;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px"><span dir="auto" style="word-break:break-word;display:block;font-size:0.9375rem;max-width:100%;min-width:0px;line-height:1.3333;margin-top:16px"><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">Scurius, the patriarch of a family of gray squirrels, has collected enough nuts to last ten winters. When a group of starving fox squirrels begs him to share his hoard of food, animosity erupts into a ferocious war. The Squirrels is a boundary-pushing, darkly satirical look at wealth inequality in which no creature comes out unscathed.</div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">“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 style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">“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?”</div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">—San Diego Reader</div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem"><b style="font-size:0.9375rem">ALL ETHNICITIES, GENDERS AND AGES CONSIDERED</b>...we're casting squirrels.</div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">Sciurus-The affable, good-hearted patriarchal grey squirrel with memory issues. He's all about the existing social order, which in squirrel terms, is storing up as many nuts as possible for the winter and taking care of family first.</div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem"><b style="font-size:0.9375rem">MAMMALIA HAS BEEN PRECAST</b><br>Mammalia-Scurius's wife who puts up with his idiosyncrasies and tries to keep him from doing anything stupid.</div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">Chordata-Squirrel sexy, squirrel smart. Their daughter is in love with a red squirrel. Naive teenager who leads with her heart.</div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">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 style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">Rodentia-Red squirrel adopted daughter of Scurius. She swims with the tide that raises her boat.</div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">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 style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">Squirrel Ensemble-2 or 3 actors to bring the squirrel world to life with movement and nut changes.</div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">Contact Patrick White for sides.<span> </span><a href="mailto:white.patrick1963@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(66,133,244);font-size:0.9375rem">white.patrick1963@gmail.com</a><br>20 rehearsals will be Sunday through Wednesday 6:30-9:30.</div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9375rem">"We're going to bite and claw and scratch until today looks like yesterday." </div></span></div></div>