Dates: Fri-Sat, Oct 19-20, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10
Ages: Ages 13+
Duration: 2 hrs. approx.

Aamera Siddiqui presents
Log Kya Kahenge, a staged reading
written by Aamera Siddiqui
directed by Suzy Messerole

Aamera Siddiqui co-presented Cloth at Dreamland Arts in February 2017

The Khan family is the perfect family with the perfect eldest daughter (let’s not talk about the younger one). But beneath the veneer of perfection lies a secret they don’t want to confront. Log Kya Kahenge explores mental health stigma, a health care system that isn’t culturally responsive and what happens when “What will people say?” becomes the gauge by which you live your life.

Aamera is a fiscal year 2018 recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Dates: Sep 27-30, 2018 (Thu-Sat at 7:00 p.m. & Sat-Sun at 1:00 p.m.)
Tickets: $10-$15
Ages: 13+.
Duration: 2 hrs., plus one intermission.

Applause Community Theatre presents
The Shadow Box
by Michael Cristofer

In this dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital’s grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter’s dementia; Brian and Beverly, whose marital complications are exacerbated by Brian’s new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe’s impending death and its effect on their teenager.

Date: Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10. SOLD OUT
Ages: Ages 13+ (Please note that one story involves themes of sexual violence)
Duration: 90-120 minutes, with intermission.

Exposed Brick Theatre presents
Edges
by Ashawnti Sakina Ford
Directed by Joy Dolo

Edges is a new play about the hair stories of African American women, past and present. The staged reading culminates a workshop week of play development.

Exposed Brick Theatre is dedicated to telling the untold stories through theatre and performance art. We create opportunities for audiences and artists to grow beyond their own personal experience and view their world from new and multiple perspectives. By creating original work that dissects unexamined subject matter, we give voice to silenced issues and populations with the overall intention of fostering an authentic understanding across divides.

Exposed Brick Theatre is a fiscal year 2018 recipient of a Cultural Community Partnership grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Dates: June 28-30, 2018 (Thu-Sat at 7:00 p.m. & Sat at 1:00 p.m.)
Tickets: $15 ($12 Student/Senior)
Ages: 13+.
Duration: 90-120 minutes, including intermission.

Applause Community Theatre presents
4 One Act Plays x 3 Local Playwrights + 1 Guy from Montana

Join us for 4 one act plays by 3 local playwrights, with one co-author from Montana as Applause continues to explore short plays about the human condition:

• Embers by Robert Galligan
• Come Dance by James Lundy and Olaf Elander
• The Body Politic [an indecent proposal] by Terry Newby
• Ice Cubes by James Lundy

In 2017, our production of “Mr. Burns: the First Act” won several awards at MACTFest, held by the Minnesota Association of Community Theaters. Come see what we do with these shows. One of them may be entered in the 2018 FastFest theater festival in Cloquet, Minnesota.