Potatoes of August
Written by Sibyl Kempson
Music composed by Mike Iveson Jr.
Lyrics by Sibyl Kempson
Directed by Kathy Ng '25 MFA
April 10 - April 19
Thursday, April 10: 8:00PM (Pay What You Can)
Friday, April 11: 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 12: 8:00 PM
Sunday, April 13: 2:00 PM (Captions + Talkback with Sibyl Kempson)
Wednesday, April 16: 8:00 PM
Thursday, April 17: 8:00 PM
Friday, April 18: 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 19: 2:00 PM (ASL Interpretation)
Leeds Theatre
83 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912
Tickets
All seating is General Admission
$7 - $15
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Potatoes of August is a theatricalist fugue wherein 4 retirees encounter a highly educated sack of sentient potatoes, and find their outworn belief systems forcibly confronted by the challenges of a highly integrated, enlightened metaphysics. Parts kitchen sink drama, musical comedy, intimate biographical portraiture, museum educational presentation, opera, Renaissance fair, science fiction, science fair, and phenomenological debate it is a fugue in both the musical and psychiatric sense.