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Sisters on Stage: An elder millennial’s exploration of Shakespeare’s sisters
By Deanne McDonald / The Traveling Players
Created by Deanne McDonald
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Show Description
One woman performs scenes from Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies exploring his deep understanding of the closest, longest and most frustrating relationship of your life: your relationship with your siblings.
Genre and Content
Content Warnings
The creators say this show is appropriate for ages 12-15 and up
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Seat Reservations and Show Tickets
| Add to Schedule | Date | Time | Ticket Options | Quantity | Purchase |
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| Fri 08/07 BFF | 10:00 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/08 | 4:00 PM | ||||
| Tue 08/11 | 5:30 PM | ||||
| Wed 08/12 | 8:30 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/15 | 7:00 PM |
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Cast and Crew
Sara Pillatzki-Warzeha
DirectorSara Pillatzki-Warzeha is a theatre director, scholar, and educator. She is a co-founder of Mni Giizhik Theatre Ensemble along with Adrienne Zimiga-January and Sequoia Hauck. Sara's directing work has been seen across the Twin Cities and beyond with the Jungle Theatre, Full Circle Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Minneapolis Musical Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Lakeshore, New Harmony Project, Native Voices and others. Favorite directing credits include High Fidelity the Musical (Minneapolis Musical Theatre), Cabaret (St. Olaf College), Fly By Night (Northern Fort Playhouse), SIXPACK (Jungle Theatre), and Men on Boats (UMN). Sara holds a PhD in Theatre Historiography from the University of Minnesota. She is an enrolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate from the Big Coulee District and currently teaches in the Theater Department at St. Olaf College.
Laura Doty
Stage ManagerLaura has been involved in the backstage aspects of community theatre since here early days at Inver Hills and Shakespeare & Co. in the early 90's. She has served many roles including stage manager to current board of directors' member at Theatre in the Round since 1991. She loved stage managing Deanne there in A Murder is Announced in 2008. Laura is excited to be stage managing her second Fringe show! Thank you to Deanne for this opportunity.
Deanne McDonald
CreatorDeanne McDonald can't wait to geek out and share her love of Shakespeare and sisterhood with an audience of fringegoers. She is eternally grateful to her production sisters Sara and Laura for lending their limited time and infinite talents to this creation. Performance credits include The Giver (Mother) at Open Window Theatre, KJ Productions, Theatre in the Round, Minnesota Fringe, Magnificent Bastards (Austin, TX), Unrehearsed Shakespeare (Chicago), St. Croix Festival Theater, Actors Theater of MN, SteppingStone Theater, and Shakespeare & Company, among others. Deanne attended Augsburg College (Theatre Arts, BA) and MSU Mankato (Musical Theatre, MFA). By day, she is a school-based Speech-Language Pathologist (https://identifythesigns.org/). She sends all her love to her husband, two sweet boys, Arthur (7) and Louie (5), and all her siblings on and off stage!
More Information
After seeing Lauren Anderson’s 2025 Fringe show Jewelry Power Elite, Deanne McDonald, high school class of 2000, once described by a 2011 Fringe reviewer as “a real actress,” asked herself, “What am I as passionate about as Lauren is about jewelry?” The answer, as her former OKCupid screenname, DeeShakes, can attest, is Shakespeare.
Actor/creator and middle child McDonald and director Sara Pillatzki-Warzeha shared an office in graduate school at MSU - Mankato when Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” was a thing. Now the pair explores a life that straddles that elder millennial divide of Gen X older brothers and babysitters and little sisters that dress like the Delia’s catalogue through the lens of Shakespeare. McDonald performs scenes from past roles in comedies and tragedies from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Macbeth featuring a wide variety of sibling dynamics, intercut with personal insights and iconic music.
What is As You Like It if not a story of two sisters (one with a mad crush) running away to the soundtrack of Annie? And how awkward is Laertes as an older brother trying to give Ophelia advice about a slacker boy (Hamlet) who doesn’t do labels?! Cue Radiohead’s “Creep.” Audience members should come to this show expecting some Gen X and Millennial nostalgia and ideally gain some appreciation for Shakespeare’s deep understanding of the closest, longest and most frustrating relationship of your life: your relationship with your siblings.