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Someone Always Pays
By angela olson
Created by angela olson
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This isn’t a neat story of justice served. It’s about what we carry long after the sirens fade. About how sometimes we’re not stronger—we’re just tired. The price may shock...but someone always pays.
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The creators say this show is appropriate for ages 12-15 and up
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Cast and Crew
angela olson
woman, Creatorangela is returning to the stage in her first production in nearly decade. After graduating from the University of MN with a BA in Theatre Arts and Dance, she performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer across the country. She has performed with companies such as: Open Eye Figure Theatre, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Hinterhands Puppet Company, and Collective Unconscious. angela lives in south Minneapolis with her partner, Jesse, their guinea pig and dog. She is grateful for the opportunity to share Someone Always Pays with you all!
Jesse Mortenson
man, ProducerJesse Mortenson is best known for his starring role in the 1993 Bayport Elementary School production of The Upside of Down. 30+ years later he makes his triumphant return in Someone Always Pays. Day to day, Jesse writes code, attends protests, and is co-host of the Mill City Hall podcast. He believes it's important to tell the stories and live in the complicated spaces where "it's kinda your fault, and it's kinda everybody's fault."
Akiko Ostlund
Guest DirectorAkiko Ostlund is a visual artist, performance artist, teaching artist, curator, and an activist who lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A native of Osaka, Japan, she uses poetry, music, dance, collage, found objects and shadow puppetry to tell stories that reflect her time, and a narrative of immigrant women of color that is often underrepresented in white eurocentric society.
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Another day, another dude, another diner, another d-- We open the door, we take a series of steps, we sit down, take a menu, and take a sequence of breaths. What do you do when all those simple breaths add up to a scream? In the diner that never closes, we enter a funhouse mirror of dizzying normality. A man tries to order a coffee and finds out that trauma is tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and …
In her first theatrical work in over a decade, angela olson lays bare the experiences that simply won’t let her go. This isn’t a neat story of justice served. It’s about what we carry long after the sirens fade. About how sometimes we’re not stronger—we’re just tired. In this feminist accounting of the pedestrian and the profane, the price may shock, but … someone has to pay.
**All ticket sales and tipjar proceeds from Someone Always Pays will be donated to Tubman, tubman.org.
