[Capdist-auditions] [Curtain Call Theatre] Auditions for Native Gardens by Karen Zacareas

[Jeremy Ward]

Curtain Call Theatre (Latham, NY) will be holding auditions for
 
“NATIVE GARDENS”
By Karen Zacareas
Directed by Patrick White

 
Auditions:
 
Monday – February 10, 2020 – 7:00 PM

Location:
 
Curtain Call Theatre – 1 Jeanne Jugan Lane, Latham, NY 12110

Rehearsals:
 
Begin early December 2020
Sunday – Wednesday evenings (4-5 times per week)

Performances:
 
January 21, 2021 – February 7, 2021
Thursday at 7:30 PM, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 PM, & Sunday at 3:00 PM
One Saturday matinee at 3:00 PM on January 30, 2021

Show Description:

A hilarious hot button comedy.
 
You can’t choose your neighbors. In this brilliant new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.
 
"'Native Gardens' is a true breath of comic fresh air. It's a biting, perceptive, and ultimately hopeful sendup to our fraught relationships with those around us-even right next door. Beyond snappy oneliners and garden hose fights, the play challenges audiences to look beyond petty differences and rediscover our shared decency."-DC Theatre Scene

Available Roles:

Tania Del Valle
29 year old, Female, Latina
From New Mexico, a pregnant doctoral candidate who is determined to fix up
her fixer-upper with a native garden. Bright, energetic, naturally optimistic, wants to co-exist with the neighbors but she is fiercely protective of her ideas and values.
 
Pablo Del Valle
31 year old, Male, Latino
Chilean, an ambitious and successful attorney trying to make partner by “fitting in” and hosting a BBQ for the entire firm in his unkempt backyard. Smart, argumentative, generally tolerant and willing to overlook a lot until he is pushed over the edge by the Butleys.
 
Virginia Butley
55-65 year old, Female, White
From Buffalo, the bread-winner and only female executive working for a
large defense contractor in the DC area. Friendly, civil, smiles a lot, but her opinions are well engrained and she will fight ruthlessly to protect her turf. Prone to making offensive statements -- for the most part, unknowingly.
 
Frank Butley
55-65 year old, Male, White
From New England, a gentle and sensitive soul who has devoted himself to
his pristine English garden in his retirement. Beta to his wife’s Alpha. Friendly in a steady WASPish way, wants to get along with the neighbors but cannot embrace a native garden next door. Becomes indignant easily. Finds his courage when the chips are down.
 
Supplemental Extras
21+, Male/Female, Latino/Latina
actors needed to play the surveyor, landscapers, building examiner, and other non-speaking roles.

For more information about the theatre and the rest of our season please visit our website atwww.curtaincalltheatre.com.

Thank you.

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Sincerely,
Jeremy Anderson-Ward
Associate Producer
Curtain Call Theatre
P:  (518) 788-5254
E:  jrward5178 at gmail.com
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