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bug theatre presents FERAL, MINNESOTA Episode 5
A Monthly Live Theatrical Melodrama
FERAL, MINNESOTA
Episode 5: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
ONLY TWO EPISODES LEFT!!!
Written and Directed by Rhiannon Frazier and Gregory Moss
THE STORY SO FAR...
Fourteen years ago, in the humble midwestern town of Feral, Minnesota, Little Taffy Ann Bulger disappeared mysteriously from her parents’ driveway. Now it's 1999 and a mysterious girl-child, raised in the wild by raccoons, has shown up in Feral... and some people believe she's the lost Bulger child, finally come home.
BUT WAIT:
Taffy's mother, sewing machine heiress Carrie-Down Bulger, isn't so sure this Racoon Girl is her daughter... and her son, the incorrigible JD, knows there was more to his sister's disappearance than meets the eye...
AND NOW:
The Raccoon Girl escapes into the woods, reuniting with the raccoons that raised her… only to discover that the evil San Monto Corporation has been pumping chemicals into the ground soil, decimating the raccoon population… and the raccoons want REVENGE…
MEANWHILE:
Toolie Maguire, Playwright and Busboy, is preparing to stage the annual Feral Community Play: an all-singing all-dancing adaptation of the 1999 Brendan Frazier vehicle, The Mummy... but his leading man, local heart-throb Jimmy Prescott, was killed in cold blood by an agent of San Monto… throwing the town into a state of grief… and the future of the play into question…
HEY ALSO:
The Sexy Library Twins, Lesley and Dewey Leisure, are BOTH having a torrid affair with local waiter Harold Apples… in a fit of passion Harold hit Lesley with a rock, sending him into a coma… a coma that his brother Dewey doesn’t want him to wake up from…
PLUS:
? WHO will run the library while the Sexy Librarian Twins are away?
? WHAT is San Monto Enterprises pumping into Feral’s oxygen?
? WHERE is the Mayor?
? WHEN will Carrie Down Bulger admit her guilt in the disappearance of her daughter?
? HOW will the deranged Patty Knuckles eliminate likeable waitress Joylene Johnson ?
? WHY is Oscar wearing a superhero mask and bat wings?
? and HOW will Feral protect itself against the encroaching forces of corporate evil?!
All these questions and more will be answered in the PENULTIMATE EPISODE of Feral, Minnesota!
WHAT EVEN IS THIS?
Feral, Minnesota is a serialized play presented in six one-hour chapters, created, written and directed by Rhiannon Frazier and Gregory S Moss. New episodes are written monthly, rehearsed for four days with a company of Albuquerque’s most dangerous actors, then presented to an audience. It’s Peyton Place meets Waiting for Guffman with a little bit of Twin Peaks thrown in. It’s sexy, funny, creepy, and wildly entertaining! Come join us this month for Episode 5: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
Upcoming PERFORMANCEs
July 12 at 7 PM (Episode 5)
August 16 at 7 PM (Episode 6: FINALE!)
EPISODE 4:
THE STORY SO FAR...
Fourteen years ago, in the humble midwestern town of Feral, Minnesota, Little Taffy Ann Bulger disappeared mysteriously from her parents’ driveway. Now it's 1999 and a mysterious girl-child, raised in the wild by raccoons, has shown up in Feral... and some people believe she's the lost Bulger child, finally come home.
BUT WAIT:
Taffy's mother, sewing machine heiress Carrie-Down Bulger, isn't so sure this Racoon Girl is actually her daughter... and her son, the incorrigible JD, knows there was more to his sister's disappearance than meets the eye...
AND NOW:
The Raccoon Girl, fed up with being put on display, escapes into the woods, where she meets Feather Light Knuckles, an alienated teenage girl whose only friend has been kidnapped by a shadowy corporation that’s slowly infiltrating Feral…
MEANWHILE:
Toolie Maguire, Playwright and Busboy, is preparing to stage the annual Feral Community Play: an all-singing all-dancing adaptation of the 1999 Brendan Frazier vehicle, The Mummy... but competition for starring roles has created deep resentment in Feral’s citizens, stirring up the jealousy of young lovers… but Toolie's unconventional style of directing may drive his actors to the brink of madness... and Murder!
AND ALSO:
The Sexy Library Twins, Lesley and Dewey, were both discovered having torrid affairs with handsome waiter and local shy-guy Harold Apples. Who will Harold choose? Will he lose the love of two Librarians? And will Dewey ever forgive him?
PLUS:
? WHO is the evil yet spunky cutie pie at the head of San Monto Enterprises?
? WHAT will become of the heartbroken Carrie Down Bulger?
? WHERE is Raccoon Girl taking little Feather Light Knuckles?
? WHEN will The Mysterious Stranger reveal her true identity?
? WHY is Oscar wearing a superhero mask and bat wings?
? and HOW far will Patty Knuckles go to land a starring role in The Mummy: The Musical?!
All these questions and more will be answered in the next thrilling installment of Feral, Minnesota!
WHAT EVEN IS THIS?
Feral, Minnesota is a serialized play presented in six one-hour chapters, created by Rhiannon Frazier and Gregory Moss. New episodes are written monthly, rehearsed for four days with a company of Albuquerque’s most dangerous actors, then presented to an audience. It’s Peyton Place meets Waiting for Guffman with a little bit of Twin Peaks thrown in. It’s sexy, funny, creepy, and wildly entertaining! Come join us this month for Episode 4: A Raccoon’s Revenge!
CAST (IN NO ORDER)
Issac Christie, Allie Sundstrom, Jose Castro, Chris Walsh, Ben Erickson, Diana Delgado, Jayla Fraklin-Sullivan, Kim Jennings, Andy Gustke, Dach Vann, Kane Distler, Bridget Dunne, and Rhiannon Frazier
FERAL MINNESOTA SYNOPSIS
1985: Little Taffy Stryker, violin prodigy and heiress to the Stryker-Busch Sewing Machine Fortune, mysteriously disappears from her parents’ mansion in Feral, Minnesota. After a long and painful search, the case is closed, and the girl is presumed dead… but her body is never found.
2010: Busboy/Thespian Gale Tippet-Herzog discovers a woman living in the dumpster behind the You Betcha Diner… could this strange creature turn out to be Taffy Stryker? Why isn’t her Mother happy to see her? Who’s that Stranger hanging around outside at the Robinson Funeral Home Coffee Shoppe? What do the Sexy Twin Librarians know about all this? And what other buried mysteries will her return bring to light?
Sex, scandal, and salacious secrets lie beneath the lily-white veneer of this humble midwestern town! Frank, revealing, and shockingly honest, Feral, Minnesota lays bare the truth of what normal-seeming Americans get up to… AFTER DARK!
Albuquerque’s most dangerous actors bring this serialized melodrama to raging life, on stage, at FUSION this Spring!
The creative team
Gregory Moss is a writer, educator, and performer from Newburyport, MA. He is an Associate Professor in Theatre at The University of New Mexico and heads the university's MFA in Dramatic Writing program. His work has been produced at Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Steppenwolf, La Comédie-Française, EST-LA, Clubbed Thumb, Capital T Theatre and South Coast Rep, among others. His plays include Indian Summer, punkplay, Reunion, Billy Witch, House of Gold, and sixsixsix. Upcoming: The Unauthorized Unofficial Hunter S. Thompson Musical at La Jolla Playhouse in September 2023.
Rhiannon Frazier is a creator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is primarily focused on creating new works in, with, and for her community.