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The Fresh Five
 
by five fresh playwrights
January 8 -23, 2010
 
directed by five emerging directors
Bedlam Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
 


ARTISTIC TEAM

Project Coordinator - Claire Avitabile
Directors - Ellen Apel, Amber WR Miller, Nicole Wilder, Leah Adcock-Starr & Lindsey Cacich
Stage Manager - Marie Strampe
Assistant Stage Manager - Sheena Thompson
Lighting Design - Ariel Pinkerton
Costume Design - Renata Shaffer-Gottschalk
Sound Design - Claire Avitabile
Set Design - Jenna Lory
Photo Credit - Megan Engeseth

***Opening Night Extravaganza
Post-show discussion with all five playwrights
Hors d'oeuvres and cash bar

ASL Interpreters - Tarra Grammenos and David Evans
ASL Interpretation will occur Sunday 1/10/10


 
Tickets to The Fresh Five can be reserved online @ www.bedlamtheatre.org
Reservations are recommended. Sliding scale $10-20
 

10:00, Bistro Caprice by Ruth Virkus (local playwright)
directed by Ellen Apel

The physical manifestation of Lydia’s midlife crisis is submerged in the sink - a $300 wine stained silk blouse. Topless and trapped in a public restroom, she can’t embrace her future until she finds cover in the present.

Featuring: Cynthia Uhrich, Jen Tuder & Megan Engeseth

Kids Play by Kathleen Warnock
directed by Amber WR Miller

Kids Play shines a brief but beautiful light on the musings of two young sisters playing in the backyard, contemplating adolescence, growing old, and the existence of Santa Claus.

Featuring: Courtney Miner & Valarie Falken

Artichoke Hearts by Anthony Neuman (local playwright)
directed by Nicole Wilder

Justin, a transgender man and avid blogger of his own dating misadventures, is caught off-guard by Cynthia, a lesbian bartender who likes him just the way he is… or isn’t…

Featuring: Anthony Neuman, Lacey Piotter, Shannon Troy Jones, Candace Stimpson & Samantha Midler

Perfect Match by Rachael Brogan Flanery (local playwright)
directed by Leah Adcock-Starr


It’s hard to describe this play without giving away the creepy twist… Set in a Cuban-fusion restaurant, Perfect Match is a blind-date gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Featuring: Nick Nelson & Ali Rose Dachis

Pedestrian Casualty: Bronx, USA by Nina Mansfield
directed by Lindsey Cacich

Inspired by the playwright’s experiences as a NYC public school teacher, Pedestrian Casualty brings to light some of the issues that are prevalent in urban education. Ms. K, a school teacher in the city, crashes her car and accidentally kills DeShawn – one of her own students, though she doesn’t recognize him because he never comes to class…

Featuring: Sarah Broude, Derrail Hughes, Indira Addington, John Egan, Kathryn Fumie, Valarie Falken,
Ernest Briggs & Aaron Konigsmark

 
The Word is Out and the Reviews are in...

Star Tribune Artcetera - Review by John Townsend "hip and hellacious"

TC Daily Planet - Review by Jon Behm
"any Fringe Fest enthusiast should seriously consider checking it out."

Women's Press Preview

Lavender Magazine Promo Blurb

Last Updated March 28, 2010
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