Event

Lightning Rod

Patricks Cabaret presents
Lighting Rod
socially engaged performance created and performed in a single week--THEATER in a FLASH!

Performances Friday & Saturday, April 14-15, 2017
7:30 PM at Intermedia Arts

"An artist is a lightning rod, and has a responsibility to catch that electricity in the air...to listen to the world and provide opportunities for reflection, perspective, catharsis, resistance. This is our protest." - Guest Producer Kat Purcell

A new effort and format for Patrick's Cabaret, Lightning Rod is a week-long project creating "flash theater." Teams of writers, directors, and performers spend six days making and then performing devised (collaboratively created) work that responds to the immediacy of that week, generating performance from the prompt: "What needs to be said this week?" Drawing from news headlines and what's on the hearts and minds of artists in our community, this unique event will bring together artists from diverse backgrounds to experiment with creation, to enact our resistance--to catch our own lightning.

Led by Guest Producer Kat Purcell

WRITERS
Gabriela Santiago
Halee Kirkwood
Hector Chavarria
Marie G. Cooney
Sami Pfeffer
Kassha Lisinski

DIRECTORS
Anthony Michael
Eric Tu
A.P. Looze
Alyssa Perau
Chava Rey Curland
Anna Kunin

PERFORMERS
Kenny Ngo
Nicky Leingang
Halie Bahr
Tyler Stafford
...and more to be announced!

TICKETS
$10 from participating artists
$10 (plus service charge) online
Sliding scale $12-15 at the door

Produced by Patricks Cabaret
At Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408