4 August 2024
Must see
In January 2021, playwright Jennie Ward suffered a cardiac arrest, the cause of which she still does not know. She wrote the play ‘Defibrillator’ in honor of how her friends felt. “I missed it. I was in a coma for seven to eight days. They just had to wait and be terrified,” Ward recounts. The trauma-informed play intersperses panic and anxiety faced by Ward and her friends through dance and dialogue, along with explanations of the heart’s function aided by a heart-shaped puppet.
Presented by Jennie Ward and the Justice Theatre Consortium at the Barbara Barker Center for Dance; 10 p.m. Aug. 4, 8:30 p.m. Aug. 6, 7 p.m. Aug. 8, 4 p.m. Aug. 10
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The Minnesota Fringe Festival is presenting more than 100 hourlong stage acts from Aug. 1–11 around Minneapolis. Visit MinnesotaFringe.org for ticket and show information.
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