Strange Weather

The Great Heresy Theater Company is proud to announce its second year in the Minnesota Fringe Festival. This year, we are premiering a new work: Strange Weather, written by Sarah Wash and directed by Michelle Schwantes.

Set centuries into the future, Strange Weather is the story of human survival in a landscape that has been dramatically and permanently altered by postindustrial civilization, which has long since collapsed. In its place, an extreme and fundamentalist religious tribalism has taken hold as an attempt to explain what has happened to humanity through a narrative of sin, punishment, and redemption.

In the midst of this harsh landscape, Troy, a simple farmer, attempts to care for his family and eke out some sort of life for all of them. As an alternative to the narrative of the religious militants, he has offered his children another story: a fairy tale, a larger-than-life story of the miraculous circumstances under which he and their mother met, which led to the supposed psychic abilities of their daughter, Cassie. Complicating matters is the fact that his son, Hector, is part of the religious militia that controls their small town, while his mother, a religious fundamentalist herself, is constantly trying to undermine his story.

Then, one day, a stranger arrives at their humble home, and their fragile lives are forever altered…

The show premiers in the Fringe Festival in August at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage. Show dates are:

• Sat. Aug 1, 7pm
• Sun, Aug 2, 4pm
• Mon, Aug 3, 5:30 pm
• Tue, Aug 4, 10pm
• Thurs, Aug 6, 8:30 pm