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Friday September 26Kress Pavilion
1pm Premiere of Impertinent Girls, a new play by Aretha Sills
It’s 1789, and fourteen-year-old Jane Austen, her bookish siblings, and their glamorous cousin (who is fleeing the French Revolution) are rehearsing a “family theatrical” in the barn, but for the first time they’re performing young Jane’s own writing. Impertinent Girls: The Teenage Writings of Jane Austen is a hybrid Story Theater adaptation of the raucous and hilarious stories that the precocious author wrote between the ages of twelve and seventeen, ruthlessly parodying the sentimental fiction of her day. Her ridiculous and ill-behaved characters get drunk, gamble, raise armies, and murder each other – a far cry from the novels that would earn her immortality. As the Austens rehearse the farcical burlesques, Jane finds her literary voice. Impertinent Girls explores how a young Jane Austen gained the courage to protect her ferocious gift from a society designed to take it from her.
Björklunden
4pm David Kovac performs Fooling Buddha
A young trickster learns to battle the neighborhood bully with magic and misdirection. He soon discovers that every miracle has its price. Fooling Buddha is a memory play set in working class 1970’s Milwaukee. The author portrays multiple oddball characters ranging from the taunting nemesis Eddie to The Amazing Bondini, an unsuspecting philosopher who runs the local magic shop. Throughout this evening of myth, mystery and infinite jest, we encounter an assortment of homegrown eccentrics and ride orbits of cosmic conversation around the family dinner table. As the story unfolds, so does the set. The final meditation scene concludes with an awakening that all words are magic words – not so much because they make something out of nothing, but because they make something out of everything.
Maxwelton Braes Lodge
7pm Untitled Collaboration, a new work by Jumaane Taylor and Michelle McQuade Dewhirst
McQuade-Dewhirst and Taylor will collaborate on an original composition, utilizing percussive dance as the percussion of an orchestra, commissioned by the Weidner Philharmonic.
Maxwelton Braes Lodge
7:30pm Premiere of Lulu, a new play by Rick Cleveland with Deaf West Theatre
Lulu, a western lowland gorilla fluent in sign language witnessed her caretaker’s murder and must be questioned by police. This unprecedented interspecies interrogation becomes a taught, darkly comic exploration of justice, identity, and communication.
See the full schedule at doorkinetic.com/2025-schedule
a $75 DKAF Festival Pass gets you access to everything, or join us for a single evening for just $25 (includes a free daytime event of your choice)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Maxwelton Braes Lodge - Door County, 7680 Highway 57,Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, United States
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