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“Native Gardens” Explores What It Means To Be A Neighbor BY CATHY MOLITORIS
“This is a fun play to watch,” said Maria Enriquez, director of “Native Gardens,” which will be performed as a staged reading at Susquehanna Stage. “It deals with themes and issues that are relevant to everyday life, but you don’t see represented on stage very often. It offers new
ways of looking at things.” “Native Gardens” will be performed at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 21, at the theater, 133 W. Market St., Marietta. It tells the story of two couples - one older and white, portrayed by Joanna Underhill and Joel Lesher, and one younger and Latino, portrayed by Jade Cintron and José Guillermo Rodríguez-Plaza
- and their interactions. “These two couples live next door to each other, and they come into a property dispute,” Enriquez explained. “It’s really about people coming to terms with their fears of the unknown and reconciling cultural differences.” Despite the heavy-sounding topic of the play, audiences can
expect to laugh, she noted. “It’s a comedic play. It’s very funny and very lighthearted, but it deals with serious themes,” Enriquez stated. “Things like, who can lay claim to land? What do you do when you come into a situation with someone you feel like you have no connection with? How do you overcome that?”
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“Native Gardens” will be performed as a staged reading.
“Company” is a show about relationships, said Gregory DeCandia, artistic director of DreamWrights Center for Community Arts. Written by Stephen Sondheim, it is set in 1970s New York City. “Bobby is the lead character, and he’s turning 35,” DeCandia said. “All of his friends are married, and they are either giving him (a hard time) or giving him applause for being 35 and unmarried.” “Company” will be performed at DreamWrights at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 20 and 21, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 22. It features a cast of 14 and a 14-piece orchestra. “There are songs that are going to make you belly laugh, songs that are going to make you cry,” DeCandia noted. “Relationships
