GHOST SOLDIERS
Schedule
Thu May 09 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm
Location
1401 Presque Isle Ave, Marquette, MI, United States, Michigan 49855 | Marquette, MI
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North Coast Theatre Festival presents:GHOST SOLDIERS (Panowski Playwriting Production)
The Playwriting Award was established in 1977 by the Forest Roberts Theatre at NMU. The award is designed to encourage and stimulate artistic growth among educational and professional playwrights. It provides students and faculty the unique opportunity to mount and produce original work on the university stage. Submissions will be accepted biennially and must adhere to the theme of that competition cycle. They will be blindly read and judged by members of a screening committee. The winning play will be featured in our North Coast Theatre Festival Season.
NMU and North Coast Theatre Festival are excited to announce this year's world-premiere play is titled Ghost Soldiers. The play is written by and will be directed by Keli Crawford-Truckey. Ghost Soldiers tells the story of the soldiers who were a part of the "Polar Bear Expedition" during World War I. The action jumps back and forth between brief vignettes between the 1930s, ’40s, ’50s, ’60s, '70s, and World War I (specifically 1918-1919).
Inspired by the Grandfather of NMU professors Paul and Dan Truckey, as well as other Michiganders who entered WWI looking to find part of themselves through their service as soldiers. Ghost Soldiers is a play that follows six young men who hoped to join the US forces in Europe, only to find themselves face to face with the Bolsheviks in frozen Northern Russia - a story about self-identity, self-acceptance, warfare, and tyranny. How we construct ourselves in the reflections of our family and country's politics. More importantly, it is about what we say to the people we love, and what we don’t.
DATE: May 9-11
LOCATION: Panowski Black Box Theatre
TIME: 7:30pm
MEANT FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE | APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 1HR 30Mins
*** This production contains some adult language and themes such as war and gun violence, alcohol and tobacco use.***
Get your tickets today at tickets.nmu.edu!
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Where is it happening?
1401 Presque Isle Ave, Marquette, MI, United States, Michigan 49855Event Location & Nearby Stays:
