RAW STAGES Radio Man
by Garrison Keillor
reading directed by Ron Peluso
January 19–January 22, 2014
On a cold winter night, the creator of “A Prairie Home Companion” is visited by his characters - Guy Noir, Private Eye, the cowboys Dusty and Lefty, residents of Lake Wobegon, and his own family ghosts, who are all dissatisfied with their lives – to which he simply says, “Lighten up.” Song and dance is the cure. Cheerfulness is a choice. Sorrow is generic: what truly shines is comedy. He persuades them, one by one, and sends them away singing, and, at the end, confesses his own skepticism. “We are walking toward the cliff and as we come closer to it, we need to walk faster.”
The RAW STAGES Festival will be held at the 3M Auditorium in the Minnesota History Center (345 West Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul).
The RAW STAGES reading of Radio Man is SOLD OUT.