The CAKE

OCTOBER 10 - 26

IN BEKAH BRUNSTETTER'S TOUCHING AND TOPICAL DRAMATIC COMEDY, A VIVACIOUS, CONSERVATIVE NORTH CAROLINA BAKER NAMED DELLA FACES A CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE WHEN JEN - WHOM SHE LOVES LIKE A DAUGHTER - ASKS HER TO BAKE A CAKE FOR JEN'S LESBIAN WEDDING.

SUMMARY

Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.

Tickets available:
WICA Star: $45
Standard: $30
by request to the box office: $20

Youth 18 and Under: Free

VIEW THE TRAILER

AUDITION FOR THIS PLAY

Roles:

Della: Female presenting Caucasian woman, 40-50.

Tim: Male presenting man, 40-50.

Jen: Female presenting woman, early to mid twenties.

Macy: Female presenting woman, early to mid twenties. Preference will be for a BIPOC actress, although the playwright allows the role of Macy to be played by any ethnicity. 

From the Director: 

This play means so much to me! I feel my own life experience has prepared me to direct this show and I’m beyond thrilled to have the opportunity to bring it to life at WICA. Della and Tim are a middle-aged, conservative and religious couple who love each other but haven’t really connected for years. They are comfortable living each day pretty much the same, but their love for each other gives them the strength to try new things.  

Jen and Macy live and love in the present. Macy could care less about a wedding or a cake but she knows how much it means to Jen. Jen is torn between her conservative upbringing and the life she is now living.

This play is about love and growth and the willingness to step out of ones’ comfort zone to learn and understand. There is no villain in this play, just four people who have strong beliefs, biases and feelings. Della loves Jen. Tim loves Della. Macy loves Jen and Jen loves Della AND Jen and is split in two trying to be the little girl Della knew as well as the adult woman Macy fell in love with.

Here’s what the publisher says about the play:

Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.

Local Auditions: July 23 and 24, will callbacks on July 25th. 

Also accepting video auditions.

Script available upon request.

Reach out to deana.duncan@wicaonline.org for specific audition information.

Rehearsals begin the 2nd week of September and the show opens October 10th. 

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.