12/15/2011 Fresh Fruit

Heading towards the Solstice: Drama, Politics & Cabaret

Happy Solstice!

Guests:
Carla Steen, Guthrie Theater Dramaturg
Andy Birkey, MN LGBT Political Journalist
Maren Ward, Co-Artistic Director Bedlam Theatre, performer, director

Carla Steen, Dramaturg

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams,
directed by Lisa Peterson

Carla discusses issues around Brick's sexuality & Williams' script

It's the 65th birthday of wealthy southern patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt, who is unknowingly dying of cancer, and his sons Gooper and Brick have arrived on the scene of the family's Mississippi plantation in hopes of inching closer to their $10 million inheritance. Yet as Brick descends into alcoholism following the death of a college friend, his fragile relationship with his wife Maggie continues to crumble, and the lies and illusion become too much for the family to bear.

January 14 - February 26, 2012
The Guthrie Theater

Andy Birkey, Journalist

The Colu.mn
TC Dailey Planet

Discussing his newest articles & current LGBT issues
including his story
At Anoka Hennepin, proposed policy changes prompt protest by anti-gay parents group

Maren Ward, Co-Artistic Director Bedlam Theatre, performer, director

HOT CORN: The Longest Cabaret of the Year
(It's a cabaret within a play within a cabaret with a party, bands, and lanterns!)

The Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater
Wed 12/21, 7:00pm
SPECIAL SOLSTICE NIGHT EXTENSION CELEBRATION TIL MIDNIGHT

Wed 12/28, 9:30pm

performers:
with Steve Ackerman, Christopher Allen, Andi Cheney, Jon Cole, Ian Knodel, Tom Lloyd, Don Mabley-Allen, Kait Sergenian, Madonna Smith, Molly Van Avery, Maren Ward, and more!

Special Guests on the 21st: JAZZ DADZ, Soozin Hirschmugl, Hijack, Molly Van Avery and Zoe Sommers-Haas.
Special Guests on the 28th: Trevor Adams, Carly Wicks and the Winter Dreamers!

SPECIAL SOLSTICE NIGHT EXTENSION CELEBRATION!
following the cabaret/play on the 21st at about 9pm

with
International Novelty Gamelan
LANTERN BRIGADE
Psycick Slutz
Kristi Ternes SANTA MOVIE
Transitional Species
Nona Marie and the Choir
Jon Zuma St Pelven