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Friday Staged Reading – Boxelder Bug Variations by Bill Holm

November 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

Join us for our December Friday Staged Reading via Zoom

Friday, December 4th, at 8:00 p.m.

Boxelder Bug Variations: A Meditation on an Idea in Language and Music

By Bill Holm

Directed by Marilyn Cavicchia,

with Assistant Director Barbara Barreno-Paschall

Music performed & recorded by Bill Hohnke

with:

Sasha Austin-Schmidt
Joseph Cavicchia
Ron Chafetz
Corinna Christman  
Chris Chwedyk
Billy Cooper IV
Bill Hohnke
Andrea Holliday
Ruth Kadanoff
Ragan Mozee
Rosina Neginsky
Oroki Rice

In Minnesota, one phenomenon of fall and winter is that boxelder bugs come inside. They don’t do much. They’re just … there. In 1985, poet and writer Bill Holm used the boxelder bugs in his own house as a jumping-off point to explore small-town life, death, love (and sex!), classical music, and the threat of nuclear war. Join us for an extraordinary evening!

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“To be alive, and to know it, is everything. Everything.”

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