Illusion Theatre's Award-Winning "My Antonia” at Pine City Elementary Auditorium on March 9th
12:30 p.m. Performance

Illusion Theatre and playwright Allison Moore will bring Willa Cather's vibrant character of Antonia to life with a statewide tour of the award-winning show, "My Antonia".  Pine City Public Schools in cooperation with Community Ed., the Pine City Public Library, Pine City Arts Council, and Heritage Theatre present this critically acclaimed production locally, funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, at 12:30 p.m. at the Pine City Elementary Auditorium on Friday, March 9th.
     
In 1918 Willa Cather wrote about the 1880's European immigrants who came here to make their American dreams come true.  They endured bitter winters and struggled to make things grow in the hard scrabble soil of the windswept Nebraska prairie.  Moore's new adaptation is told through the memories of narrator Jim Burden, who after 20 years of living in the East, returns to his small prairie town to see Antonia, the Czech immigrant girl who shaped his understanding of life.  The story is wrapped in an environment of the changing prairie created by the actors, set, and sound.
     
This one and a half hour drama will also relate to high school students and the public in the East Central Region of Minnesota, an area also populated by Czech immigrants whose culture and language enriched local history.  The 2010 production of "My Antonia" was the recipient of two Twin Cities Theatre Ivey Awards.
     
High school students from Pine City and area schools as well as the general public are invited to participate in this experience.  Public tickets will be available from Pine City Community Ed. on February 9th.  Please make a check for $5.00 payable to Pine City Public Schools, and send to Carol Lightfoot at 700 Sixth Avenue Southwest, Pine City, MN  55063.

Pine City Public Schools 2010