"Opening Up: a community returns to the world"
a theatrical event told in letters & artifacts
presented from October 2021 - June 2022
Created by Chad Swan-Badgero, Kathleen Egan and Angela Robertson
Artifact creation by Nicole Martin
As Peppermint Creek Theatre prepares to begin operations again after almost 2 years silenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, we do so as perhaps many of you: apprehensive, excited, thrilled at the opportunity to be creative again, and ready to work together outside of our individual isolation bubble.
Our first event for the 2021/2022 season will be focused on personal letters, and our community’s voices.
We’re putting a call out to anyone and everyone to send us a one-page letter recounting a story of a time in your life when you had to open up in some way and what you learned from it. This may have been a painful experience, a time when you were opened to wonderful and new possibilities, or when you saw your relationships and your world in a new and surprising way.
For us as a Theatre company the idea of “opening up” means so many things and brings with it so many opportunities. For this first performance back after the pandemic we want to highlight all of your personal and unique stories of opening up, whether it be during the last two years or during your entire lifetime.
Send us your one-page letters and we will be highlighting one every month from October 2021 through June 2022. The one letter featured each month will be sent to with a unique, participatory artifact specifically tied to the letter of the month. We hope this theatrical experience told through letters will be an old (and new!) way for us to highlight our community voices and for you to experience personal stories from your community in a tactile and visceral way - much as we have always done as a theater company.
Get writing! We can’t wait to hear your stories. We’ll be accepting letters throughout the entire season. Send your one-page letters to us via email at office@peppermintcreek.org, or mail it to us at:
Peppermint Creek Theater Company
c/o Opening Up
11550 Barnes Highway
Eaton Rapids, MI 48827
Welcome back. We are excited about opening up!
Patrons can purchase tickets for this event by clicking here.
