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How much do we really know about our partners? In "You Were Mine," a dark romantic comedy (by award-winning playwright Rachel Lynett), Aisling and Noah attempt to plan a funeral for their mutual partner, sharing jokes, stories, and secrets as they try to navigate what it means to actually love someone for who they wholly are. Through their collective memories they also discover how joy can transcend trauma and how love can even transcend grief.
JAN 12, 2021 at 7:00 pm EDT
Reading of
American Divide
by Maximilian GillDirector: Matt Ripa
Location Zoom Webinar
Reading of
American Divide
by Maximilian GillDirector: Matt Ripa
Location Zoom Webinar
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Ten years from now, the nation’s political divisions have only heightened. A fascist, anti-immigrant government takes over the United States. Secession is the only option for states that want to retain values of inclusion and democracy. The east and west coasts of the United States break off and form their own republics. Civil war threatens. California closes its border to Nevada to cut off a flood of refugees. Tent cities fill up. A California police officer, a Nevada border control officer, a smuggler, and a desperate refugee meet in a bar in Las Vegas near the border between the present U.S. and a new nation. They want money, justice, or escape, but mostly they just want to survive in a world falling apart around them.
NOV 17, 2020 at 7:00 pm EDT
Reading of
DRAGONFLIES
by Kayla Hambek
Directed by Carl Randolph
Location Zoom Webinar
Registration Required
Have you ever had someone in your life you simply couldn’t live without? The person who knows you better than anyone else, who would walk through fire for you, but who also takes great pleasure in telling you when you’ve messed up? For Dr. Juliet Britton, that person is Max, her best friend since college. Juliet has always prided herself on being the smart one in their relationship, but when she is hospitalized unexpectedly, she finally asks Max for help. Set in 2049 and told through a series of flashbacks, The Dragonflies explores how friendships change and evolve over the course of a lifetime, and the importance of finding that special person who makes life worth living.
Meet The Playwright
Kayla Hambek is a Minnesota-based playwright and actor whose work has been published in The Coachella Review and the Santa Ana River Review, and seen onstage in Minneapolis, MN at the Wellstone Center, Sabes JCC, Eden Prairie Players, and as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival; in Buckingham, PA with the Town and Country Players; and at the University of Portland (OR) as part of the HAHA Festival. Her work explores familial and other vital, non-romantic relationships through a feminist, asexual lens; plays include butterfly(n.),The Dragonflies, Persuasion, Emma Abridged, Splinter, Sprinkles, and the upcoming Miss Woodhouse Presents. Kayla is the co-founder and Managing Director of Aethem Theatre, and has an MFA in Playwriting from Augsburg University in Minneapolis, MN.
