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Gadfly Theatre Productions to bring queer geek fest to the stage

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Gadfly Theatre Productions to bring queer geek fest to the stage

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Gadfly Theatre Productions is taking theatre “where few LGBQTIA* and feminist artists have gone before.”

The Final Frontier Festival will bring six science fiction and fantasy one-act plays to the stage in mid-June. the festival “takes recent conversations about the way marginalized people are treated in geek culture and puts a progressive but still wildly entertaining response on stage,” according to event organizers.

The acts planned for the production are:

Who Killed Captain Kirk? by Paco Madden; a murder mystery set at a Star Trek convention.
A play about a nearly perfectly designed fembot becoming self aware entitled The Wolves Above by Alyssa Zaczek.
Love Bot by local playwright Matthew A. Everett, in which a gay and a lesbian astronaut are charged with repopulating the world.
A one-woman show about returning home chock full of magical realism and steeped in Christian mythology called Honest to God by J.C. Pankratz.
Falling Awake by Alexis Scheer, where the characters are grappling with grief in a way that transcends space and time.
A hilarious and spot-on takedown of platonic ideals and various geek mythologies–the show is Gargle McFury Slays Gender Essentialism by Alex Reed.

According to Gadfly, the Final Frontier Festival is broken into two sets that run in repertory June 13th-22nd at Nimbus Theatre in Northeast Minneapolis.

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Performance Dates:
Friday, June 13th at 7:30 pm*
Saturday, June 14th at 7:30 pm+
Sunday, June 15th at 3:00 pm (Pay-What-You-Can Performance)
Monday, June 16th at 7:30 pm (Pay-What-You-Can Performance)
Thursday, June 19th at 7:30 pm (Pay-What-You-Can Performance
Friday, June 20th at 7:30 pm*
Saturday, June 21st at 7:30 pm
Sunday, June 22nd at 3:00 pm (Pay-What-You-Can Performance)
*Friday nights feature a post-show discussion with the cast & Gadfly company members
+Saturday night of opening weekend features an opening weekend party at the venue FREE for audiences and artists alike.

Location: Nimbus Theatre, 1517 Central Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Admission: $15 per show, $20 per night, or $40 for the festival in advance. Sliding scale starting at $15 a night via cash or check at the door. Tickets can be purchased online at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/694699 or you can reserve an unpaid reservation by e-mailing [email protected].
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Andy Birkey has written for a number of Minnesota and national publications. He founded Eleventh Avenue South which ran from 2002-2011, wrote for the Minnesota Independent from 2006-2011, the American Independent from 2010-2013. His writing has appeared in The Advocate, The Star Tribune, The Huffington Post, Salon, Cagle News Service, Twin Cities Daily Planet, TheUptake, Vita.mn and much more. His writing on LGBT issues, the religious right and social justice has won awards including Best Beat Reporting by the Online News Association, Best Series by the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and an honorable mention by the Sex-Positive Journalism awards.