Raw Stages 2020:
New Works Festival
January 16–January 19, 2020
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Thursday, January 16, 7:30pm
WILSON’S GIRL
Unpacking the Beef in a Minnesota Town
Based on the memoir, Packinghouse Daughter by Cheri Register and adapted for the stage by Eva Barr
An emotionally charged recounting of the turmoil in Albert Lea during the 1959 Wilson’s meatpacking strike as seen through the eyes of a teenager.
Friday, January 17, 7:30pm
SWEDE HOLLOW
A new play by Swedish playwright Alexander Mörk Eidem, based on a novel by Ola Larsmo, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
A gripping story of Swedish immigrants who settled in the St. Paul shanty town known as Swede Hollow in the late 1890s.
Saturday, January 18, 2pm
JESSE JAMES
by Jeffrey Hatcher and Chan Poling (Creators of History Theatre’s hit musicals Glensheen and Lord Gordon Gordon)
The musical telling of the notorious bandit and his gang who came to Northfield, Minnesota. It was all downhill from there—after their failed Great Northfield Bank Robbery!
Sunday, January 19, 2pm
PARKS
by Harrison David Rivers with Robin Hickman
Raised amidst the violent racism of the 1920s and ‘30s, Gordon Parks chose to fight back with a camera instead of a gun. Inspired by the life of the iconic photographer, PARKS tells the story of a young black man’s journey to becoming an artist. The trials and tribulations; the triumphs. The pain, the glory and the love.
• A Special Parks’ reception follows reading. Free.