Native Gardens at Surround Project

NATIVE GARDENS by Karen Zacarías

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Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías
A Surround Project Play Date — One Night Only
San Antonio Premiere

Featuring Kayla Hernandez Friend, Phillip Lopez, Terri Pea Ross, and Allan Ross
Directed by Eva Laporte

PLAY DATE PRODUCERS | Becky & Greg Haslett

Join Surround Project for our next Play Date: a one-night-only staged reading that feels social. Enjoy beverages, snacks, surrounding activities, and conversation while experiencing a notable contemporary play that has never been seen in San Antonio.

Claim your seat before your neighbor does.

A hilarious hot-button comedy.

Good fences make good neighbors … right?

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 BBQ 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.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Karen Zacarías is an award-winning playwright whose acclaimed works include The Book Club Play, Just Like Us (adapted from Helen Thorpe’s book), Legacy of Light (Steinberg Citation), Mariela in the Desert (Francesca Primus Prize), and The Sins of Sor Juana (Helen Hayes Award). She also adapted Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents for the stage. Her Theatre for Young Audiences musicals with composer Debbie Wicks La Puma include Einstein Is a Dummy, Looking for Roberto Clemente, and Frida Libre. Chasing George Washington premiered at The Kennedy Center and toured nationally before being adapted into a Scholastic book with a foreword by Michelle Obama. Zacarías has received the National Latino Play Award and been a Susan Blackburn finalist. A graduate of Stanford University and Boston University’s Creative Writing program, she is the first playwright-in-residence at Arena Stage and founder of Young Playwrights’ Theater in Washington, D.C.

For Adults 18+

Content note for those who need it: Surround Project selects contemporary American plays that center on modern life, both its troubles and triumphs.

Please note: all ticket sales are final, and we’re unable to seat late arrivals.

NATIVE GARDENS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. http://www.concordtheatricals.com