The Bemidji State University Theatre presents the Minnesota premiere of Marisa Wegryzn's

The Butcher of Baraboo

The Butcher of Baraboo is a dark comedy about a butcher, her family, their secrets and one shiny meat cleaver.  Valerie is the butcher of Baraboo, Wisconsin. Her husband has gone missing and her nosy sister-in-law, the town sheriff, suspects her of foul play. And Valerie's daughter, a pharmacist who is a little too free with the medication, might know more than she lets on.

"'Baraboo' is the kind of play in which every character at some point confesses a dramatic secret, and part of the fun is trying to guess what it will be."

-- Jason Zinoman, New York Times

Ms. Wegrzyn possesses a distinctively off-kilter voice and a wicked sense of humor . . .   

-- nyonstage.org

The Butcher of Baraboo is sharp, dangerous and unpredictable.

-- Katharine Critchlow, Show Business

Tickets On Sale Now For:

November 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th at 7:30pm, and November 14th at 2:00pm

Call for information at 218-755-3935 or visit Bangsberg 101

Monday-Friday 10:30am-4:00pm

Ticket Prices: $6.00 students & senior citizens, $12.00 adults, BSU students admitted free with ID (This is a SAFAC sponsored event)

A Talk Back with the playwright, Marisa Wegryzn will follow the Nov. 5th performance.

About the Playwright: 

Marisa Wegrzyn's plays include Killing Women, Psalms of a Questionable Nature, Ten Cent Night, Hickorydickory, and Diversey Harbor. The Butcher of Baraboo was originally produced in Steppenwolf Theatre's First Look Repertory in 2006, premiered Off Broadway at Second Stage in 2007, and published in the Smith & Kraus anthology New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2008. Other theatres that have presented her work include Chicago Dramatists, Theatre Seven, Moxie Theatre in San Diego, Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Rivendell Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Lucid by Proxy in Los Angeles, Washington University in St Louis, HotCity Theatre in St Louis, Nice People Theatre Company in Philadelphia, The Hourglass Group in NYC, Baltimore Centerstage, and The Magic Theatre in San Francisco. She is currently working on commissions from Steppenwolf and Yale Rep, a screenplay adaptation of her play Diversey Harbor, and her writing was cited in The Chicago Reader's list, "Best of Chicago 2008." She received the 2009 Wendy Wasserstein Playwriting Prize for Hickorydickory. Marisa is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists and a founding member of Theatre Seven of Chicago.