'SICKLE' Minnesota Premiere

Name: 'SICKLE' Minnesota Premiere
Start: 2025-05-03T19:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-05-11T02:00:00.000Z
Location: Mixed Blood Theatre

1501 S 4th St, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA

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Theatre Novi Most

SICKLE, a play by Abbey Fenbert

Minnesota Premiere Production

May 1 (Preview), May 2-10, 2025 at Mixed Blood Theatre

Produced by Theatre Novi Most | Directed by Lisa Channer and Vladimir Rovinsky

CAST

CREATIVE TEAM

ABOUT THE SHOW

All shows will be performed in English with Ukrainian Supertitle Captioning.
1933. Four women, Halka, Anna, Iryna and Yasia, attempt to survive at the height of the Holodomor* in their village in Ukraine. The men have already been deported as class traitors for resisting collectivization, and the women maintain discipline as best they can, guarding the land, foraging for food, while attempting not to die or go mad. Into their midst comes Nadya, a fresh-faced member of the Young Communist League, tasked with seeing to it that the party line is toed even if it kills every last villager. When she walks into a pastoral apocalypse, she begins to question everything she believes about the world. Although about a dark history, the play exudes surreal humor and will feature live Ukrainian music.
*Holodomor is the Ukrainian word for the man-made famine orchestrated by the USSR against Ukraine from 1932-1933. Between 3 and 10 million Ukrainians died in this genocidal campaign.
This show will run 90 minutes with no intermission.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Abbey Fenbert is a Chicago-based writer. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University and a BA from NYU. Her original plays have been produced and developed by the Matrix Theatre Company, Red Theatre Chicago, Northern Illinois University, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, the KNOW Theatre, the Berkshire Playwrights’ Lab, the Vagrancy, the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis and the Playwrights Union of Los Angeles. Her plays Sickle and Child were Finalists for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and her short dramatic works are published in anthologies from Smith & Kraus. Her writing has been featured online at The Toast, McSweeney’s, Catapult, The Offing, HowlRound and American Theatre. She also wrote and stars in the webseries Beck & Clem, a feminist time-travel comedy. Fenbert served in the Peace Corps, Ukraine, 2008-2011, where she worked as an English teacher and youth organizer. She is currently a news editor for The Kyiv Independent.

ABOUT THE VENUE

The Alan Page Auditorium at Mixed Blood Theatre is AEA accessible. Paid lot and street parking are available at the theatre. The lobby will open 30 minutes prior to start time, with doors opening 15 minutes prior. Please email info@theatrenovimost.org with any questions.
This production is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.