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| Variations on a Similar Theme, 1972 : "Helen Deltz" Wendy Lehr, Gerald Drake, Bain Boehlke, Karlis Ozols, Norma Schneider |
PLEASE BE ADVISED that co-founder and artistic director John Clark Donahue, as well as a number of staff and/or school faculty members of the theatre (actor/instructor Jason McLean, for one) have been convicted and/or charged with criminal and/or civil crimes of sexual abuse of minors. In winter of 2019, in civil court, the Children's Theatre Company was also found guilty of negligence in these matters which occurred during the time period of the 1970s and 1980s (and probably earlier). Consequently, please be aware that the images and links within this blog include the contributions and participation of certain minors who were victims/survivors/witnesses of sexual and emotional abuse and residual trauma, as well as certain adult perpetrators, enablers, and/or former victims.
At the close of its third season (spring of 1968), The Children's Theatre Company of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts broadened its artistic activity and reach through the presentation of works specifically for teenage and adult audiences in offering an evening of one-act plays written by John Clark Donahue: Variations on a Similar Theme (an homage to Rene Magritte).
The collection of plays was remounted twice: again in the late spring of 1972 (adding another one act, Donahue's "A Suitcase") and, for the last time, in the spring of 1977 on the stage of the "new theatre."
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| Variations on a Similar Theme 1972: "I'll See You." Guy Paul, Bain Boehlke. |
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| Variations on a Similar Theme, 1972: "Two Birds." Wendy Lehr, Linda Walsh Jenkins. |
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| Wendy Lehr, Linda Walsh Jenkins, Bain Boehlke |
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| Wendy Lehr, Linda Walsh Jenkings, Bain Boehlke, Barbe Larsen. |
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| Variations on a Similar Theme, 1972. "A Costume Box." Ronn Tice. |
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| Variations on a Similar Theme 1972: "A Shoe." Company men. |
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| Variations on a Similar Theme 1972. "Red Shoes" Wendy Lehr, Bain Boehlke, Karlis Ozols. |
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| Variations on a Similar Theme 1972. "Helen Deltz" Full Company. |
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| JCD directs. |
VARIATIONS ON A SIMILAR THEME 1977. VIDEO CLIP 1.
"Opening Moments" and "I'll See You."
VARIATIONS ON A SIMILAR THEME 1977. VIDEO CLIP 2.
"Two Birds."
VARIATIONS ON A SIMILAR THEME 1977. VIDEO CLIP 3.
"A Costume Box" and "A Shoe."
VARIATIONS ON A SIMILAR THEME 1977. VIDEO CLIP 4.
"Red Shoes."
VARIATIONS ON A SIMILAR THEME 1977. VIDEO CLIP 5 of 5.
"Helen Deltz."
