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Weekend Arts Roundup 9/16-9/19

Posted at 11:39 AM on September 16, 2010 by Steve Seel

This week's report from The Current's Chief Fine Arts Authority Marianne Combs:

A couple of strong and powerful theater pieces open this weekend... Frank Theatre presents the area premiere of "Eclipsed", the story of five women thrown together by civil war in Liberia, and how they learn to survive as the "wives" of a commanding officer who took them as loot.

Penumbra Theatre presents "Sleep Deprivation Chamber", about a college boy who's beaten by a cop, and his mother's fight to protect him. It's the dramatic telling of a true story written by the mother and son who lived the experience.

Looking for ambient electronic music that's "visceral" "foreboding" and "defiant?" Southern Theater presents two evenings of new music by Ben Frost and Tim Hecker this Friday and Saturday.

Friday night local punk poet Paul Dickinson presents his semi-regular Riot Act Reading Series in the Clown Lounge of the Turf Club in St. Paul. He'll be joined at 8pm by comedienne Mary Mack.

Looking on to early next week, acclaimed Norwegian novelist Per Petterson speaks at the Guthrie Theater. Petterson is represented in the United States by Twin Cities publishing house Graywolf Press.

- Marianne Combs

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