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SD REP-Tortilla Curtain Casting
79 Horton Plaza
San Diego CA 92117
Email
casting@sdrep.org
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Contract
LORT Non-Rep
$566/wk
Seeking
Actors for the world premiere of Tortilla Curtain - please see breakdown.
Other Dates
Rehearsals Begin: February 21, 2012
Performance Dates: March 17-April 8, 2012
Performance Space: Lyceum Stage in Horton Plaza
Personnel
By Matthew Spangler
Directed by Sam Woodhouse, Artistic Director of San Diego Repertory Theatre
Other
www.sdrep.org
Please submit via e-mail as soon as possible.
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About the Play
In the sun-bleached hills outside Los Angeles, the lives of three people are on a collision course. Delaney Mossbacher, nature writer and staunch environmentalist, lives a tidy, comfortable existence with his wife and toddler stepson behind the walls of a gated hilltop community. Cándido and América Rincón, recently arrived undocumented immigrants from Mexico, camp at the bottom of a local canyon, fight the elements, and tirelessly mow lawns and clean houses while they save for an apartment. One summer day, Delaney, driving up the narrow, twisty canyon road as he returns home from his weekly trip to the recycling center, hits Cándido with his car. Their lives will never be the same. Part comic satire and part parable on the price of the American dream, Tortilla Curtain is a fast-paced epic for our times.
CÁNDIDO RINCÓN male, Mexican, 30s—50s. Working-class, undocumented immigrant from Tépoztlan, Mexico. He lives in a clearing along the streambed of Topanga Canyon, California, while he works as a gardener and handyman to save up enough money for an apartment. Very capable as a builder, can make a livable shelter out of almost nothing. When his wife back home left him for another man, he came North with his wife’s younger sister, América, whom he genuinely loves. Despite the numerous hardships he and América have faced in trying to achieve a better life in the U.S., he remains optimistic. Crazily so. He is the sort of guy who bounces right up after being knocked down hard. He never gives up. Must be fluent in Mexican Spanish and English.
AMÉRICA female, Mexican, 17—early 20s. Very pretty. An undocumented immigrant from Tépoztlan, Mexico who lives with her lover and older sister’s husband, Cándido in a clearing along the streambed of Topanga Canyon, California while they work to save up enough money for an apartment. She is pregnant with Cándido’s baby and has run away from her family in Mexico, particularly her domineering father, to find a better life in California. Comes from a working class background, was always a good kid, who got good grades in school. Though she is a strong young woman, she is somewhat naive about the world, and as a result, dreams of being tougher and more capable than she actually is. Running away from home and migrating North with her sister’s husband is by far the most daring thing she has ever done. It’s by turns exciting and terrifying for her. Doubles as Resurrección, Cándido’s wife and América’s older sister (in one scene). Must be fluent in Mexican Spanish and English.
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