Wilson's Girl: Unpacking the Beef in a Minnesota Town
Presented by
Riverland Theatre
Adapted for the stage by Eva Barr
Based on the book Packinghouse Daughter by Cheri Register, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press
Directed by Susan V. Hansen
In this World Premiere, local Minnesota playwright Eva Barr adapts Cheri Register's 2001 memoir about coming of age in Albert Lea, MN during the 1959 Wilson's meatpacking plant strike. The play spans the inciting moments of the strike to the violence and divisiveness that resulted, but it is Register's personal awakening to the meaning of class in her life as the daughter of a blue-collar worker that provides the universal hook.
October 4, 5 @ 7:00 pm, October 6 @ 2:00 pm – Austin West Cafeteria
October 11, 12 @ 7:00 pm, October 13 @ 2:00 pm – Albert Lea Commons