FALL PLAYS AT PARK SQUARE OFFER COUNTERPOINT OF ONLINE FUN AND CONTEMPLATION
Media Contact – Connie Shaver
shaver@parksquaretheatre.org
Saint Paul, Minn., Sept 8, 2020 – With on stage performances on hiatus, Park Square Theatre’s new team of Artistic Associates is springing in to action with virtual programs to keep audiences connected with friends and family and with the greater community through the autumn. Two online programs, a Halloween variety show and a poetic reflection on racial violence, offer different ways to enjoy theatre – while safely at home – in the coming months.
Theatre of the Macabre
For families looking for new experiences to fill the vacuum of Halloween parties and haunted houses, Park Square presents THEATRE OF THE MACABRE, a three night online variety series of ghoulish horror and fun-filled terror (Oct 29-31, 2020), with live and recorded performances hosted by Twin Cities actor/director Craig Johnson. Three unique nights will feature local true ghost stories by Twin City storytellers, actors and singers, and an array of monologue readings, scenes and songs that range from Edgar Allan Poe to William Shakespeare to Stephen Sondheim, along with other folkloric tales and poems.
Local performers include Tinne Rosenmeier and Dane Stauffer, with special appearances by Robert Francis Cole and Zachary Zito. The program will be co-directed by Kim Vasquez and Craig Johnson.
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Tears of Moons
Early in TEARS OF MOONS (Nov 19 – 22, 2020) the vast scope of the one-man play becomes apparent. “My job is called different things,” says The Poet. “In West Africa, it’s called a Griot. In Greece; Homer. On Franklin and Chicago; Crazy.”
Antonio Duke’s poetic tour-de-force travels through time-on the 5 bus – chronicling America’s ongoing epidemic of violence against Black people. Deeply personal and profoundly epic, Duke interweaves Haitian, Nigerian, and Ghanian spiritual figures and mythology to reckon with rage in the face of ceaseless bloodshed. Written and performed by Antonio Duke and directed by Ellen Fenster, the play was part of the 2018 Guthrie Emerging Artist Celebration and is being updated to conjure the present moment.
“Well trained and highly charismatic, Duke uses his craft to give this piece light and pathos.” Star Tribune, 2018.
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