Take a Peek into the Pro Rata Process!

It's back!

Join us as we take a closer look at two contenders for an upcoming season. Each night hear a different exciting script read aloud, then weigh in on an open-forum discussion about its merits and foibles. Who knows? Your input could make it onstage!

Oh yeah, the best part: it's free! (We'll take donations, though.)




Theatre Pro Rata's playreading series is sponsored by Common Roots Café.

T Bone N Weasel by Jon Klein
July 14, 2010
7:00 P.M.
Common Roots Café
2558 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55405

Hoping to bring themselves up to at least the poverty level, two young ex-convicts, T Bone and Weasel have stolen a rather decrepit Buick and have set off across South Carolina with minor mayhem in mind. Moving swiftly from one adventure to another they botch an attempted robbery; are swindled out of the Buick by a fast-talking used car dealer; run afoul of a sexually voracious lady farmer; fall into the clutches of a larcenous country preacher; and try to make off with the automobile of a politically ambitious small town doctor who wants to exhibit them as examples of what poverty can do to people. Eventually Weasel is hired on by a construction company, but when they refuse to take on T Bone as well, it is back on the road again, pausing only to make out their last wills and testaments disposing of all their "worldly goods" which, for T Bone is nothing at all, and, for Weasel, consists primarily of his used Chevette—with thirty-two payments still to go.

Cast:

T Bone - Kalif Troy
Weasel - Nicholas Leeman
Mr. Fergus, Happy Sam, Reverend Gluck, Lemuel Clayborne, Verna Mae Beaufort, Officer Klamp, Doc Tatum, Brother Tim, Raincoat - Andy Chambers
Voice of Action - Amber Bjork



Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp
July 21, 2010
7:00 P.M.
Common Roots Café
2558 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55405

“It’s totally familiar but dreamlike at the same time,” says one misguided American in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Escaping their lives in Manhattan, former college buddies Matt and Davis take off to the Netherlands and find themselves thrown into a bizarre love triangle with a beautiful, young prostitute named Christina. The romance they find in Europe is eventually overshadowed with the truth they discover at home. Written with a harsh, poetic beauty, Red Light Winter is a stunning new work by the Pulitzer prize-nominated author of Blackbird and Nocturne.

Cast:

Davis - Andy Chambers
Matt - David Beukema
Christina - Amber Bjork
Voice of Action - Christopher Kehoe


Pictured: Sam L. Landman as Fab in Feelgood Hits Of The 70s. Photo by Charles Gorrill. Quote from an audience member.