You are cordially invited to attend RCTC Theatre’s annual fall children’s production:

“Still Life With Iris”

By: Steven Dietz
Directed By: Josiah Laubenstein

Saturdays, November 2 and 9

2pm

The play runs about 65 minutes with no intermission.

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE

Get your tickets in advance or at the door. Or contact Rhonda at rhonda.jensson@rctc.edu or 507-285-7200 for tickets and more information.

$5.00 – Adults

$3.00 – Children 12 and under, Senior Citizens 65+, and non-RCTC Students.

RCTC students get in free with valid student ID.

 

This piece is the first play for young audiences to receive the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays Award. Still Life with Iris is a fantastical adventure which centers on a little girl’s search for the simplest of things: home. Iris lives with her mom in the land of Nocturno—a magical place in which the workers make, by night, all of the things we see in the world by day. Also, in Nocturno, memories do not reside in people’s minds but instead are kept in their coats (called “Past Coats”). The rulers of Nocturno, the Great Goods, are determined to have the “best” of everything on their island—and therefore take Iris away from her home and bring her to Great Island to be their daughter. To ease the pain of this separation, they remove her Past Coat, leaving her with no memory of her home or her family. All that remains of Iris’ past is a single button from her coat. Using the button as a clue, Iris joins with friends she meets on her journey—Annabel Lee (a young woman from the sea) and Mozart (the composer, age 11) and frees herself from the Great Goods. She returns to Nocturno, having found her past, and her home.