College announces cast for upcoming production of Watermelon Hill

January 13, 2017

Anoka-Ramsey Community College is proud to announce the student-actors recently cast in its winter production of Watermelon Hill by Lily Coyle. The play is set to hit the Cambridge Campus stage (G202) Feb. 23, 24 and 25 at 7:30 pm, and Feb. 26 at 2 pm.

Congratulations to:
(student name, role, high school)

• Jaqlyn Bentz, ensemble, Perpich Center for Arts & Education
• Danielle Buttgereit, ensemble, Braham Area High School
• Elizabeth Glenna, ensemble, Seton Home Studies
• Ben Kietzma, ensemble, North Branch High School
• Sarah Larson, ensemble, Larson Family Home School
• Vicki Larson, ensemble, Armstrong High School (Iowa)
• Cody Zink, ensemble, Aitkin High School

Stage Manager: Paula Anderson
Director: Anoka-Ramsey Community College Theatre Faculty member, Lisa Weaver

More about Watermelon Hill by Lily Coyle
Watermelon Hill is set in 1965. The play asks that you imagine yourself as a teenage girl—pregnant and unwed. After a painful confession to your mother, you are sent away to the Catholic Infant Home on Cathedral Hill to deliver your baby and give it up for adoption. You are given a new name and strict instructions: "Do not reveal your real name. Do not discuss this episode in your life with anyone. Have your baby, go back to school, and make a fresh start – as if nothing ever happened. Once you leave this place, you must never look back." But that's impossible. Decades later, in this play, three courageous women relive their shared experiences at the home, personal moments of love and loss, and reunions with the children they never forgot.

For more information about the production or the Theatre Department at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, visit: Anokaramsey.edu/academics/departments-faculty/theatre/

Watermelon Hill
Feb. 23, 24, and 25 at 7:30 pm; and
Feb 26, 2017 at 2 pm
Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Cambridge Campus Rm G202