Jardin Salvaje
(English title: Native Gardens)
By Karen Zacarías
Directed by Juliana Frey-Méndez
Spanish translation by Gustavo Ott
Jardin Salvaje is performed in Spanish.
April 23, 2026 - May 09, 2026
James Levin Theatre
EVERY TICKET is "Choose What You Pay" and will be offered online, over the phone, and at the Box Office.
Cleveland Public Theatre/Teatro Público de Cleveland present Jardin Salvaje, a Spanish translation of Karen Zacarías' hit play, Native Gardens.
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 DC couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque 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.
Click here for COVID-19 Safety Protocols. (Sunday COVID-Conscious performances)
The James Levin Theatre is ADA-compliant featuring a patron elevator and an all-gender, wheelchair accessible restroom.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Karen Zacarías’ award-winning plays include the sold-out/extended comedy The Book Club Play, the sold-out world premiere drama Just Like Us (adapted from the book by Helen Thorpe) at the Denver Center, the Steinberg Citation-winning play Legacy of Light, the Francesca Primus Award-winning play Mariela in the Desert, the Helen Hayes Award-winning play The Sins of Sor Juana, and the adaptation of Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Karen also has a piece in the Arena Stage premiere of Our War. Her TYA musicals with composer Debbie Wicks la Puma include Jane of the Jungle, Einstein Is a Dummy, Looking for Roberto Clemente, Cinderella Eats Rice and Beans, Ferdinand the Bull, and Frida Libre. Her musical Chasing George Washington premiered at The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and went on a national tour. Her script was then adapted into a book by Scholastic with a foreword by First Lady Michelle Obama. www.karenzacarías.com