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Starved
Thursday, January 11, 7:30pm
by Richard Chin
Directed by Anya Kremenetsky
During WWII, conscientious objectors test the limits of their willpower by volunteering for a controversial University of Minnesota experiment on starvation.
Cast: Mark Benninghofen, Eric Knutson, Grant Sorenson, Josh Zwick, Wesley Mouri, Summer Hagen
Photo credit: Volunteers Gerald Wilsnack and Marshall Sutton, c.1945. Image is from the Minneapolis Newspaper Collection, Hennepin County Library Special Collections.
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The Spy Musical
Friday, January 12, 7:30pm
by Laurie Flanigan Hegge with music by Robert Elhai
Directed by Ron Peluso
The daring and ingenious Betty Pack – a Minnesota-born socialite turned secret agent – uses her seductive charm to change the course of WWII.
Cast: Caroline Innerbichler, Ann Michels, Kendall Anne Thompson, Joel Liestman, Juan Rivera, Gary Briggle, Randy Schmeling, Jon Hegge, Wesley Mouri
Photo credit: Amy Thorpe, late 1930s
Not For Sale
Saturday, January 13, 2:00pm
by Kim Hines and Barbara Teed
Directed by Richard D. Thompson
In the 1960s, a Minnesota realtor loses everything in his attempt to sell houses to minority families in all-white neighborhoods.
Cast: Charles Fraser, Carolyn Pool, Alejandra Tobar Alatriz, Juan Rivera, Ron Collier, Melina Kordich, Terry Hempleman, Michael Paul Levin, Shanan Custer, Evie Bair, Maia Hernandez
Sisters of Peace
Sunday, January 14, 2:00pm
by Doris Baizley
Directed by Ron Peluso
Four Catholic nuns and real-life sisters Jane, Brigid, Kate and Rita McDonald take to the streets to stand up against injustice – with plenty of singing, Irish humor, and several stops in jail along the way.
Cast: Sue Scott, Cathy Fuller, Katherine Ferrand, Wendy Lehr, Peggy O’Connell, Caroline Innerbichler, Nat Fuller, Ricardo Vazquez
Photo credit: Sisters of St. Joseph in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The McDonald Sisters in 1961 visiting their parents’ farm (© K.J. McDonald)