It’s finally Fringe time, ladies and gents! Tonight the cast is doing its first dress rehearsal, and we’ve got postcards! Send Sarah an email (find her on the contact page) if you want a stack for your community, theater group, whatever, and she’ll overnight ‘em to you.

The Heretics’ Ball, Tent Revival, and Medicine show is tomorrow night–so brush up your rural dystopian shoes and come on down! At 6pm is the Heretics’ Reception, free and open to the public–an opportunity to meet the Heretics in person and enjoy some free appetizers while sipping on a beverage from the cash bar. At seven is a sneak preview of Strange Weather, also free. At seven-thirty we take a break and let Panda Sandwich do their thing–for a $20 2-for-1 price, you can hang with both the Pandas and the Heretics. And then at 10pm the music kicks off, with Ghostband, Ficshe, and Gerald Prokop–closing out the evening with electro-synthrock madness.

And finally, on a more serious note…this looked like an Onion article headline but it’s real. Lest we think society is past the days of banned books and book burnings…well, this little news tidbit makes the mission of the Great Heresy Theater Company all too real, our logo all too relevant.

See you Saturday!

David plays The Stranger in the cast of Strange Weather. He lived in South Texas until he was 20, packed everything into his Ford Pinto, and moved to Minnesota. He traded the Pinto for a Datsun, began a career in typesetting that evolved into computer graphics, married a ballerina who evolved into an ex-wife, drove a Honda, raised 2 amazing daughters, acquired an orange tabby cat, acquired a son-in-law, drove a Geo, acted in theater and film, became the pronouncer for the state spelling bee, and now drives a Focus with 150K miles. He’s got some mighty fine friends, family, roommates, and distant cousins.

At long last, the Great Heresy Theater Company is proud to announce the cast of Strange Weather. They have actually been diligently working on rehearsals for several weeks and are very excited to be participating in the production and in the 2009 Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Grandmother- Deb Birchler
Troy- John Kunik
Hector- Joshua Humphrey
Cassie- Natasha Smith
Jason- Joshua Busick
The Stranger- David Talarico

Watch for bios of the company members and updates of how the show is progressing in the coming weeks.

Tonight (Monday, June 8th) we had our first auditions for Strange Weather. On behalf of all of us (Michelle, Josh, and Sarah), we would like to extend a hearty thanks to all who came out…and if you couldn’t make it tonight but wanted to, then stop by at Black Bear Crossings tomorrow between 6 and 9. We’ll be there!

The show will most likely be cast by the end of the week, so stay tuned for details!