DNAWORKS, in collaboration with Teatro Paraguas, and Associate Producers Nicholas Ballas, Estevan Rael-Gálvez and Juan Rios, Diane Karp, Lisa Samuel and Les Samuel, and Roxanne Swentzell presents: The World Premiere of CASCARONES by Irma Mayorga with: Nicholas Ballas, Nicole Gramlich, Jonathan Harrell, Marcos Kelly, Roger Montoya, Bernadette Peña and Cristina Vigil. PERFORMANCES: September 4, 5, 6*, 11, 12, & 13, 2014 at 7pm; 7 & 14 at 5pm At Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe *The September 6th performance will be followed by a Gala Reception. Tickets are $100 and include an array of local appetizers, deserts, and drinks. FOR TICKETS please call 1-866-394-6033 Or click the links below:$15 General Admission $10 Fixed Income tickets $5 Children tickets (age 12 and older)Directed by: Daniel Banks Produced by: Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak Set Design: Dahl Delu and Wendie Cutcher Lighting Design: Ross Rauschkolb Sound Design: Casey Mraz Production Manager: Alexis Miles Stage Manager: Carla Garcia About the play: Cascarones takes place in San Antonio, Texas, as teenager Mary Margaret Caceres, who works for the transit authority giving people bus route directions, attempts to understand the mapping of her community and city. As she navigates the daily challenges her working class family faces, she encounters in a dreamlike state John Wesley Powell, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and the other men whose actions in the past influence her present. DNAWORKS,
in collaboration with Teatro Paraguas, will present the world premiere of Cascarones by Irma Mayorga at Teatro Paraguas opening September 4, 2014 and
running for 8 performances. Developed at the O’Neill Playwrights
conference at the Eugene O’Neill Center in 2003, Cascarones is directed by
DNAWORKS co-founder Daniel Banks. Banks
sets the play between two facing sides of the audience, representing the Grand
Canyon that Powell was the first to map and where the Caceres family vacationed
when Mary Margaret was a young girl. The cast includes Nicholas
Ballas, Nicole Gramlich, Jonathan Harrell, Marcos Kelly, Roger Montoya,
Bernadette Peña and Cristina Vigil. A staged
reading of Cascarones was held at Teatro Paraguas in February 2014, attracting
the breadth of Santa Fe's communities. A moving community dialogue
followed the reading resulting in audience members having a deeper
understanding of Chicano culture and history. One audience member
remarked, “This is just the kind of theatre Santa Fe needs in order to bring
people together.” Banks
states: “I attended the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and saw the staged
workshop of Cascarones. I was incredibly moved by the story and the
complex dramaturgy of the script. I asked Irma for a copy of the play and
taught it at NYU to undergraduate drama students. I always knew I would
direct it one day and, when I arrived in Santa Fe four years ago, I immediately
felt that this was the city where Cascarones needed to be widely heard.” Irma Mayorga
will be in Santa Fe during the rehearsal and development period as an
Artist-in-Residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute through their Community
Partnership Initiative. Exciting Cascarones News -- Special Events * Before the Sunday afternoon performances (September 7 & 14), Cascarones audience members will be treated to a special dance performance by Flamenco Troupe & Ballet Folklorico of Santa Fe DANCEWORKS! Please arrive at 4:15 pm to experience this company's inspiring work. * After the performances of Cascarones on September 4, 5, 12 & 13, DNAWORKS Co-Directors Adam McKinney and Daniel Banks will be leading their signature Community Dialogues. Cascarones is co-produced by Teatro Paraguas, in collaboration with Associate
Producers Nicholas Ballas, Estevan Rael-Gálvez and Juan Rios, Diane Karp,
Lisa Samuel and Les Samuel, and Roxanne Swentzell. Funding for the
project comes from the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, the McCune Visual
Performing Arts grant through the NM Community Foundation, and over 100 donors
who contributed through a successful Indiegogo campaign.  |
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