Twenty Ten Fest: Set B

Fri, Apr 16 - Sun, Apr 25, 2010

  • Fri 4/16, 9:00pm
    $15
  • Sat 4/17, 5:00pm
    $15
  • Sun 4/18, 7:00pm
    $15
  • Fri 4/23, 7:00pm
    $15
  • Sat 4/24, 9:00pm
    $15
  • Sun 4/25, 3:00pm
    $15

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Bedlam’s Community-Professional Theatrical Showcase showcases 21 very short new theater pieces in a mind-boggling range of styles.These plays run the stylistic gamut from reflective drama to toy theater to lip-sync drag to a new short opera, with many stops in between. It will feature the work of new artists, creators, and performers, as well as such well-known members of the Twin Cities theater scene as Playwright Center writers Aditi Kapil, Carson Kreitzer and Dominic Orlando, and one piece created by Cedar-Riverside youth in workshops with Bedlam.

These pieces are grouped into three sets and rotated six times during the course of two weekends. There will also be a ten-minute hip-hop series running in conjunction with the festival, with artists and schedules to be announced later.

SET B includes:

4 Short Plays About Torture. Written by Dominic Orlando, directed by Brian Balcom.

Sheer. A physically driven romp by Lelis Brito.

Bootleggers. A hip hop monologue in three by Reggie Edmund.

Coffee with an Alien. An intergalactic fairy tale by Kait Sergenian and Alberta Mirais.

Gut Wrenched and Rising or This Means You’re Gay Now. A circus-influenced ensemble performance about the joys and dangers of being transgendered. Created by Walken Schweigert, directed by Sofi Shank.

The Loneliest Astronaut. An existential comedy about space camp by Ben Egerman.

Gretchen/Faust. Fausts abandoned love journeys in search of the soul. Faust’s abandoned love journeys in search of the soul. An opera co-created by David Hanzal, Julie Kurtz, and Laura Lechner.