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The Dakota Fine Arts Consortium and Applause Community Theatre join together to present two one-act plays before they travel to Fergus Falls to compete in the state's biennial one-act play competition, MACT Fest. Tickets $10 Adults & $5 Senior/Students Saturday, March 19 @ 1pm & 7p Applause Community Theater is performing Tennessee William’s one act play, This Property Is Condemned. This is a two-person play describing a chance encounter between a boy named Tom and an orphaned school drop-out named Willie by the railroad tracks outside a near-abandoned, post-depression-era Southern town. During their conversation, Willie tells Tom about her sister Alva, who was once the town's "Main Attraction" with suitors galore, fancy clothes and always out to party; but died young when her lungs "got affected." Yet, everything about Willie already spells "doom" as well: Her dreaminess and lack of realism, her cheap rhinestone bracelet and raggedy old-fashioned party dress (which were once her sister's), her shabby doll, and of course the fact that she still lives in her family's old railroad-side boarding house, long-since shut down and bearing the sign "This Property Is Condemned". |
The Bay at Nice is set in a room in the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad in 1956, where an aging Valentina, once a young student (and possibly lover) of Henri Matisse, has been asked to help authenticate a painting for the museum staff. She is accompanied by her daughter Sophia, a teacher but also an artist, now unhappily married to a Party bureaucrat and desperate to be free of her marriage and start a new life, for which she needs her mother's approval and financial assistance. The result is a battle of wills between the two women, one an ex-Bohemian, who left the freedom of Paris to raise her fatherless child in a repressive Russia, and the daughter, now grown into a stifled woman in her thirties eager to taste the freedom her mother once enjoyed.
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