Twin Cities stages and parks are making room for stories about Native, Hmong and Lao communities this weekend.
Catch the world premiere of Minneapolis writer Marcie Rendon’s “Sweet Revenge” at Red Eye Theater, celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a weekend of arts, sports and food trucks in Maplewood, or head to St. Paul’s East Side for the first Hmong & Lao Heritage Festival.
A Native spin on murder mystery
It took 22 years for Minneapolis playwright Marcie Rendon to get “Sweet Revenge” right.
For years, the play sat in her drawer as a stubborn story about an inner-city Native American family living just a door away from an ice cream truck serial killer. Rendon knew the pieces were there, but the story wouldn’t click…