We employ and equity conscious approach to casting. People of all genders, races, ethnicities and abilities are encouraged to audition.
Open Call: March 10, starting at 6:30 PM • Studio Theatre • Please sign up for a 5 minute slot using our google form.
Please prepare: A fully memorized, 1-minute, comic monologue
Callbacks: March 11, 5:30-10:30 PM • Studio Theatre
Schedule:
Rehearsals: Monday-Friday 6:30-10:30 PM • March 17-April 25
Technical Rehearsals: Saturday and Sunday April 26 & 27 • 10AM – 10PM
Dress Rehearsals: April 28-May 1 5:00-10:30 PM
Performances:
- Friday• May 2 • 5:30 Call; 7:30 Start
- Saturday • May 3 • 5:30 Call; 7:30 Start
- Sunday • May4 • 12:30 Call; 2:30 Start
- Wednesday • May 7 • Pick-up Rehearsal 6:30 PM
- Thursday • May 8 • 5:30 Call; 7:30 Start
- Friday • May 9 • 5:30 Call; 7:30 Start
- Saturday • May 10 • 5:30 Call; 7:30 Start
- Sunday • May 11 • 12:30 Call; 2:30 Start
Description: This narco-novella-comedy is contemporary adaptation of Moliere’s The School for Wives with elements of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and The Importance of Being Earnest. Get ready for a wild ride of passion, power, and pandemonium. Set in Sinaloa, Mexico in 1992, Narco king Don Ernesto plans to marry his innocent ward Eva, whom he has cloistered away at the local convent. Can his perverse plan be foiled by his wisecracking housekeeper and the handsome son of his recently deceased rival Narco? This masterful theatre mash-up by Culture Clash founder Herbert Siguenza will keep you on the edge of your seat and rolling with laughter.
Characters:
DON ERNESTO: Head of a powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. Very macho and controlling. In the city of Culiacan, he’s known as Don Ernesto Quesada but outside the city in Monte Verde, he goes by Professor DON RAMIRO BUNBURI.
ARMIDA: She is Don Ernesto’s house manager. She tries to be strict and proper and hold her tongue but that’s too hard for her. She knows everything that is going on. Did I mention she’s deaf?
PADRE ALBERTO: The local corrupt Catholic priest. Very slick and slimy but charming.
EVA: Beautiful young woman that has been raised by nuns in a convent and is truly innocent but not naïve. She is well read, devours news and is an intellectual feminist.
MARIO GRANDE JR.: A handsome young man who comes back home to Sinaloa following a tragic death in the family.
LUCHA GRANDE: She is Mario’s mother. She is a Banda singer. She is tough as nails and a self-made woman. She wears an eye patch and is very macha.
LEO : A Hit man and body guard for Don Ernesto. Comically incompetent and slightly creepy
TITO: A Hit man and body guard for Don Ernesto. Comically incompetent and slightly creepy
MARIO GRANDE SR.: Mario’s deceased Narco father. A ghost.
PEDRITO1 & PEDRITO 2: Backup dancers for Lucha Grande.
NUNS 1 & 2
