Playwright Buffy Sedlachek hopes to raise awareness of the difficulties veterans face when they adjust to life at home after deployment.
Writing about soldiers and the effects of military deployment stirs up old ghosts for Buffy Sedlachek, a playwright at Climb Theatre in Inver Grove Heights. Sedlachek’s father posthumously received the Navy Cross — the military’s second highest honor — after he gave his life in the Korean War to save the lives of his fellow soldiers. Since then, the relationship between a soldier and the community in which they live — and what motivates soldiers to risk their own lives in combat — have been “core” questions in Sedlachek’s own life. A former actor whose plays have been shown at the Walker Art Center, the Denver Center Theater and other venues, Sedlachek chose to dig into some of those themes as part of her latest production, “Return to …
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What happens when Monty Python meets Shakespeare? Find out when you attend this IHCC production.
Director George M. Roesler has an easy answer to the question why people should come see Inver Hills Community College's production of “The Servant of Two Masters.” “It’s very funny,” said Roesler. The play, an Italian farce originally written in 1745, could be compared to the comedy works of Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Rowan Atkinson and Ricky Gervais, both Roesler and student actors involved in the production said. The play opens on Feb. 18, with subsequent performances on Feb. 19, Feb. 25 and Feb. 26. All performances start at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theater at Inver Hills Community College in Inver Grove Heights "The Servant of Two Masters" is directed by Roesler, a theater instructor at Inver Hills, and stars students Paul Proto as …
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Janell S
11:23 am on Monday, May 23, 2011
I just saw Return to Honor in St. Cloud on Saturday and I was so very impressed with your depiction of the re-integration that soldiers face when coming back from deployment. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! It is my hope that many more people would have the opportunity to see your play so that it might become more 'real' for those people who may not have any family involved in the military. I … more ›