An all-Native cast and crew of Haskell students are set to perform the first off-book play the university has seen in years. That’s now coming up Saturday.
Haskell’s Thunderbird Theatre club is performing “Wounspe Wanktya—A College Education.”
The show was postponed last week because of severe weather, but it will go on at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 25 in the Haskell Auditorium, 2425 Choctaw Ave. Runtime is about an hour.
In the play, two Lakota cousins, Tashina and Tiffany, embark on freshman year of college at an unnamed Division I school. They “decide to sew a sacred dress to help them get through their four years of school as they experience the good, the bad, the funny and the spiritual,” per the play synopsis.
Although the play deals with difficult subjects such as addiction and suicidal ideation, it also offers laughs, cast members said.
The Haskell band, chorus and student hand drummers will also perform as part of the production.
Read more about the production in the article at this link.
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