[Capdist-auditions] “The Squirrels” AUDITIONS Monday 2/19 & Tuesday, 2/20

[Patrick White]

Harbinger's second production of 2024 is the non-Equity Capital Region
Premiere of "The Squirrels" by Robert Askins ("Hand to God").
Email white.patrick1963 at gmail.com for scheduled auditions Monday, 2/19 and
Tuesday, 2/20 from 6:30-9:30pm.
Auditions will be held at 319 Hamilton Street, Albany, NY 12210.
The Squirrels by Robert Askins
Directed by Patrick White
Harbinger @ Sand Lake Center for the Arts
2880 Rte 43, Averill Park, 12018
6/21-6/30, FREE Preview 6/20
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.
“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
“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
*ALL ETHNICITIES, GENDERS AND AGES CONSIDERED*...we're casting squirrels.
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.
*MAMMALIA HAS BEEN PRECAST*
Mammalia-Scurius's wife who puts up with his idiosyncrasies and tries to
keep him from doing anything stupid.
Chordata-Squirrel sexy, squirrel smart. Their daughter is in love with a
red squirrel. Naive teenager who leads with her heart.
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.
Rodentia-Red squirrel adopted daughter of Scurius. She swims with the tide
that raises her boat.
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.
Squirrel Ensemble-2 or 3 actors to bring the squirrel world to life with
movement and nut changes.
Contact Patrick White for sides. white.patrick1963 at gmail.com
20 rehearsals will be Sunday through Wednesday 6:30-9:30.
"We're going to bite and claw and scratch until today looks like
yesterday."
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