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2011-2012 SEASON

Theatre Unbound delivers thought-provoking live theatre conceived and created by women, providing audiences with engaging, rarely-seen perspectives on issues that are relevant and universal.

Anna Bella Eema
Written by Lisa D'Amour
Directed by Genevieve Bennett
October 8-23, 2011
Lowry Lab Theatre, 350 St. Peter Street in downtown St. Paul

Ten-year-old Anna Bella and her hermetic mother Irene live in a ratty trailer on the edge of town. When their trailer park is slated for demolition because of interstate highway expansion, Irene refuses to leave. In this moment of crisis, Anna Bella creates a new girl out of the mud behind their trailer home. This mud-girl helps Anna Bella face the world outside her home. A richly imagined tale of a fierce mother/daughter bond, told through word and song. "Its beauty and its depth are almost beyond language other than its own." - The Austin Chronicle (More ...)

24:00:00 Xtreme Theatre Smackdown
(formerly known as the 24 Hour Play Project)
January 14, 2012
Anne Simley Theatre, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, St. Paul

Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! 40 playwrights, directors and actors - 24 hours - 6 new plays featuring some of the Twin Cities most bad-ass female theatre artists! Theatrical thrills, spills, triumphs and tragedies - you witness the results - one night only! (More ...)

Julius Caesar
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Carin Bratlie
Presented with an All Female Cast
April 21 � May 6, 2012
Lowry Lab Theatre, 350 St. Peter Street in downtown St. Paul

In a free country, a popular political leader reaches for absolute power. Former friends must decide: loyalty or patriotism? Honor or ambition? Blood is shed in the name of the public good, the country plunges into civil war, and a noble person faces a tragic undoing. (More ...)

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