When: 2:30-5:30 pm Saturday, April 5, 2025 – Readings from the script. Plan to arrive no later than 3:30 pm. If needed, callbacks will be held at a time to be determined. If you have any questions, email artistic@carpentersquare.com.
Where: At the theatre, located at 1009 W. Reno. Parking is free on the street. Do not use the parking lot for The Horn Trader on the northeast corner of Western & Reno. You may park on ramps in front of garage doors on Reno.
What: Bring a recent photo and theatrical résumé. Be prepared to list any definite or possible conflicts on your audition form from April 13 through the run of the play May 23-June 8, 2025.
Please read the script before auditions! Hard copy perusal scripts are available to check out. Call CST at 405-232-6500 or email business@carpentersquare.com to make arrangements to check out a script. Call or contact us in the office before dropping by.
Office Hours: Closed Mondays. Open Tuesdays through Fridays 1-6:00 pm. Please call CST at 405-232-6500 or text/call Rhonda Clark at 405-205-2446 before coming by.
Performance dates: May 23-June 8, 2025.
Specific dates are: May 23-24, 29-31, June 1, and Jue5-8. There will be a brush-up rehearsal and archive photos on May 28. Most rehearsals are scheduled Mon-Fri at 7 p.m. with Saturday or Sunday rehearsals scheduled only if needed to accommodate week-night conflicts. 1st tech is the afternoon/early evening of Sunday, May 18.
CAST OVERVIEW: 2 Men, 2 Women. One man and woman are Latinx. Also, 2-4 extras, preferably Latinx to play silent roles of the surveyor, landscaper, and building examiner.
TANIA DEL VALLE (appears 30s) Latina; smart, likeable, positive, passionate, highly-energized, eight months pregnant PhD candidate and gardener.
PABLO DEL VALLE (appears 30s) Latino; smart, likeable, ambitious, savvy young attorney.
VIRGINIA BUTLEY (appears 60-mid-70s) Smart, likeable, assertive, direct, no-nonsense engineer.
FRANK BUTLEY (appears 60-mid-70s) Smart, likeable, excitable, caring, detail-oriented federal employee and gardener.
EXTRAS’ AGES CAN BE FLEXIBLE.
SYNOPSIS:
Good fences make good neighbors … right? But in this hilarious hot-button comedy, you can’t choose your neighbors. Here, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate, and 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.
“Guthrie’s ‘Native Gardens’ is the best stage comedy of the summer” – Star Tribune
“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 one-liners and garden hose fights, the play challenges audiences to look beyond petty differences and rediscover our shared decency.” – DC Theatre Scene
“…it’s a perfect summer play. It has sharp, witty writing, lots of laughs...a sense of currency and immediacy…Everything about it clicks and hums.” – Minnesota Post
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