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“Skillful comedy. Bright and clever”

D.C. Theatre Scene

“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.”

Minnesota Theatre Love

"Hilarious and thought-provoking!"

Show Info

Synopsis:

Pablo and Tania Del Valle are a young Latinx couple who have recently relocated to an affluent Washington, D.C, neighborhood. Pablo is a rising attorney, and his very pregnant wife Tania is preparing to defend her doctoral dissertation. Their next-door neighbors, Virginia and Frank Butley are welcoming but nervous about changes to their community. While replacing their fence, the Del Valles discover that their property line falls two feet into the middle of Frank’s prized garden. What begins as a property debate soon spirals into a comedic border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, caste, class, and privilege.

Playwright - Karen Zacarías:

Karen Zacarías was recently hailed by American Theater Magazine as one of the ten most-produced playwrights in the US. Her award-winning plays include The Copper Children, Destiny of Desire, Native Gardens, The Book Club Play, Legacy of Light, Mariela in the Desert, The Sins of Sor Juana and the adaptations of Just Like Us, Into the Beautiful North and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. She is the author of ten renowned TYA musicals (including Ella Enchanted: The Musical) and the librettist of several ballets.

She is one of the inaugural resident playwrights at Arena Stage, a core founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons – a large national organization of artists seeking to update the American narrative with the stories of Latinos – and she is the founder of the award-winning Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT). YPT was cited by the Obama administration as one of the best arts-education programs on the nation.

Karen was voted 2018 Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine for her advocacy work involving the arts. She is an inaugural 2019 Sine Fellow for Policy Innovation at American University and is selected by The League of Professional Theatre Women to receive the 2019 Lee Reynolds Award, given annually to a woman in theater who has helped illuminate the possibilities for social, cultural or political change. In 2021, Karen was awarded a United States Artists Fellowship award.

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Native Gardens